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Kennedy's assassination by allegedly a [http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0085b.htm self-proclaimed] "[[Marxist]]"<ref>FBI transcript: [http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0085b.htm Lee Oswald to the Socialist Party of America], Warren Commission Hearings, CE 2240, Vol. XXV, p. 140, October 3, 1956</ref> [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] in November, 1963, was a stunning shock to all Americans.  

Kennedy's assassination by allegedly a [http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0085b.htm self-proclaimed] "[[Marxist]]"<ref>FBI transcript: [http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0085b.htm Lee Oswald to the Socialist Party of America], Warren Commission Hearings, CE 2240, Vol. XXV, p. 140, October 3, 1956</ref> [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] in November, 1963, was a stunning shock to all Americans.  

To deflect attention from its ties to Oswald (who had defected to the USSR for several years), the [[Soviet Union]] fabricated a disinformation campaign to blame the assassination on US conservatives. On November 23, 1963–the day after Kennedy was killed–a memo from KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny asked the Kremlin immediately to publish an article in a “progressive paper in one of the Western countries …exposing the attempt by [http://pjmedia.com/mihaipacepa/2013/11/20/the-new-proof-of-the-kgbs-hand-in-jfks-assassination/?singlepage=true reactionary circles in the USA to remove the responsibility for the murder of Kennedy from the real criminals, &#91;i.e.,&#93; the racists and ultra-right elements] guilty of the spread and growth of violence and terror in the United States.” [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Struggle_for_Russia.html?id=GSyaAAAACAAJ According to Boris Yeltsin], the result was an article appearing two months later in the communist-controlled British journal ''Labour Monthly'', stating, “[M]ost commentators, have surmised a coup of the Ultra-Right or racialists of Dallas . . . [that], with the manifest complicity necessary of a very wide range of authorities, bears all the hallmarks of a CIA job.” Next, Joachim Joesten, a former member of the German Communist Party, wrote ''Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy?'' claiming that Oswald was “an FBI agent provocateur with a CIA background.”

<!---To deflect attention from its ties to Oswald (who had defected to the USSR for several years), the [[Soviet Union]] fabricated a disinformation campaign to blame the assassination on US conservatives.--> On November 23, 1963–the day after Kennedy was killed–a memo from KGB chairman Vladimir Semichastny asked the Kremlin immediately to publish an article in a “progressive paper in one of the Western countries …exposing the attempt by [http://pjmedia.com/mihaipacepa/2013/11/20/the-new-proof-of-the-kgbs-hand-in-jfks-assassination/?singlepage=true reactionary circles in the USA to remove the responsibility for the murder of Kennedy from the real criminals, &#91;i.e.,&#93; the racists and ultra-right elements] guilty of the spread and growth of violence and terror in the United States.” [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Struggle_for_Russia.html?id=GSyaAAAACAAJ According to Boris Yeltsin], the result was an article appearing two months later in the communist-controlled British journal ''Labour Monthly'', stating, “[M]ost commentators, have surmised a coup of the Ultra-Right or racialists of Dallas . . . [that], with the manifest complicity necessary of a very wide range of authorities, bears all the hallmarks of a CIA job.” Next, Joachim Joesten, a former member of the German Communist Party, wrote ''Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy?'' claiming that Oswald was “an FBI agent provocateur with a CIA background.”

To further link the assassination to the CIA, the [[KGB]]'s Section A for Disinformation and Active Measures produce a clumsy forgery of a letter supposedly from Oswald to CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, asking for information "[https://books.google.com/books?id=wVndU5P4V-8C&pg=PT207#v=onepage&q&f=false before any steps are taken by me or anyone else]," according to secret documents smuggled out of [[Moscow]] by former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, and published by him and Cambridge University's Christopher Andrew, [http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/08/10/the-debate-over-soviet-espionage-what-nicholas-lemann-of-the-new-yorker-gets-wrong/ dean of British historians of Soviet espionage]. Agents passed the forged letter anonymously to unwitting US conspiracy theorists; it appeared in a self-published assassination book, and a Dallas newspaper even claimed that a handwriting expert [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/12/world/kgb-told-tall-tales-about-dallas-book-says.html declared it to be genuine].

To further link the assassination to the CIA, the [[KGB]]'s Section A for Disinformation and Active Measures produce a clumsy forgery of a letter supposedly from Oswald to CIA officer E. Howard Hunt, asking for information "[https://books.google.com/books?id=wVndU5P4V-8C&pg=PT207#v=onepage&q&f=false before any steps are taken by me or anyone else]," according to secret documents smuggled out of [[Moscow]] by former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, and published by him and Cambridge University's Christopher Andrew, [http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/08/10/the-debate-over-soviet-espionage-what-nicholas-lemann-of-the-new-yorker-gets-wrong/ dean of British historians of Soviet espionage]. Agents passed the forged letter anonymously to unwitting US conspiracy theorists; it appeared in a self-published assassination book, and a Dallas newspaper even claimed that a handwriting expert [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/12/world/kgb-told-tall-tales-about-dallas-book-says.html declared it to be genuine].