Has one of the JFK files VANISHED? Keen-eyed sleuths spot one of Trump’s 2,000 files has been DELETED in mystery update

Experts think there could be more

Historian Alice George said more documents investigating John F. Kennedy's assassination might be exposed.

"I think there may continue to be more record releases," George told .

She said it's difficult for investigators to analyze cases after so many decades.

"It's much harder to find the truth when most of the people involved are dead," she added.

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More might be coming

The National Archives' website suggests more files might be coming.

"As the records continue to be digitized, they will be posted to this page," the website says.

How to look at the JFK files

On March 18, 2025, Donald Trump's administration released thousands of documents about John F. Kennedy's assassination.

You can now find the files on the National Archives' .

Most of the documents are scans of memos and letters, with some being too difficult to read after being kept for so many years.

Sergyj Czornonoh's letter, part two

Czornonoh wrote letters to the Russian Embassy and British Embassy about what he heard.

Sergyj Czornonoh's letter

The newly released files reveal a man named Sergyj Czornonoh wrote a letter claiming that three months before the assassination, a Russian consul warned him about Lee Harvey Oswald's plans.

Operation Mongoose

One declassified document revealed that JFK authorized the CIA to launch a secret covert mission called Operation Mongoose, which aimed to overthrow the communist leader Fidel Castro’s Government in Cuba during the Cold War.

JFK's shooting has long been the subject of multiple conspiracies as questions have been raised over the years about the mob's role as well as speculation over the CIA's involvement in JFK's death.

Despite the official conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting the president, numerous questions and conspiracy theories have persisted for over six decades, casting a shadow of mystery over his death.

'Poor shot' memo dispels theory

One theory about the 1963 assassination was that Lee Harvey Oswald acted on behalf of the Soviets who planned to kill JFK.

But a now declassified memo filed from the CIA’s St Petersburg station in 1991 says that authorities were "confident that Oswald was at no time an agent controlled by the KGB."

It added that he was a “poor shot” when he practiced target firing in the Soviet Union.

Experts who believe Oswald had an accomplice or was innocent often focus on the fact that even great shooters face some difficulties firing three shots on a moving target in a small bracket of time.

Cops swarm CIA headquarters

Cops are now rushing to CIA headquarters in Washington DC after reports of a man with a gun.

A threat was reportedly made just hours after the John F. Kennedy files were released.

Oswald's weeks before assassination revealed

A CIA memo released on Tuesday reveals what Lee Harvey Oswald was up to in the weeks before he assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

In September and October 1963, Oswald called the Soviet Embassy and asked for a visa while he was in Mexico City.

While he visited Mexico City, he also went to the Cuban Consulate there and asked for a travel visa, the memo said.

On October 3, 1963, Oswald drove back into the US through the Mexico-Texas border.

CIA agent said 'small clique' was responsible

In a CIA memo from July 1967 released on Tuesday, reports revealed agent Gary Underhill blamed a "small clique" for President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

The memo says the day after JFK was shot, Underhill was "agitated" at his friend's house in New Jersey.

"A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country,” the memo said.

He reportedly told his friends JFK "got wind" of the assassination plans but was killed before he could act on it.

Underhill was found dead by suicide at his home in Washington DC on May 8, 1964.

JFK's grandson blasts release

Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of John F. Kennedy, shared a post on X saying his family wasn't told about the release of the files before it was announced to the public.

"No — The Trump administration did not give anyone in President Kennedy's family 'a heads up' about the release,' Schlossberg on X in all capital letters.

"A total surprise, and not shocker !!"

However, Schlossberg said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "definitely knew."

Expected wait time

Experts anticipate reviewing the released files will take longer than expected.

“We have a lot of work to do for a long time to come," Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told the .

"People just have to accept that."

US was warned about Oswald’s plan to assassinate JFK

One of the unsealed documents revealed that a man called Sergyj Czornonoh claimed to have warned the American vice-consul in Sofia, Bulgaria, about Oswald’s plan to assassinate JFK.

Czornonoh allegedly told a US State Department official that Oswald had a weapon, but claims that authorities shrugged off the warning.

He wrote in a letter: "Director told me you too can have a weapon — so what if Oswald got a weapon."

Soviet links to JFK's assassination plot

JFK was shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union before returning home to Texas.

He was married to a Russian woman and because of his close ties with the Soviets, one theory was that he acted on behalf of KGB who planned to kill JFK.

But a now declassified memo has addressed this theory.

The memo, filed from the CIA’s St Petersburg station and addressed to "Moscow info director", contains an interview of a US professor who met with the deputy director of KGB Slava Nikonov.

It stated that Nikonov, who claimed to have checked a "thick volume of files" on the case said Oswald was never a part of the KGB.

The memo reads: "Nikonov is now confident that Oswald was at no time an agent controlled by the KGB.

"From the description in the files, he doubted anyone could control Oswald, but noted that the KGB watched him closely and constantly while he was in the USSR."

It added that he was a "poor shot" when he practised target firing in the Soviet Union.

Experts who believe Oswald had an accomplice or was innocent often focus on the fact that even great shooters face some difficulties firing three shots on a moving target in a small bracket of time.

Letter sent to British Embassy

A detail released in the documents shows a letter sent by a man called Sergyj Czornonoh to the US British Ambassador in 1978.

He claimed he had warned intelligence services about Lee Harvey Oswald's intentions two months before the assassination.

Czornonoh said he was given information about Oswald by Wasilev Consul, who worked in the Soviet embassy in Bulgaria.

He claimed Consul's girlfriend "came into my room" and repeated that Oswald was an "assassin", adding: "He will kill President Kennedy."

Czornonoh said he told a State Department official on August 19, 1963, that Oswald had a weapon.

He claims his warning was brushed off.

In his 1978 letter Czornonoh recounted: "Director told me you too can have a weapon — so what if Oswald got a weapon."

Memo on passage from a magazine

One of the documents shows a memo on a passage from left wing political magazine Ramports from June 1967.

The passage was about intelligence agent, CIA informant and former US Army Captain John Garrett Underhill Jr.

It reads: "he day after the assassination, Gary Underhill left Washington in a hurry.

"Late in the evening he showed up at the home of a friend in New Jersey He was very agitated.

"A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination, he confided, and he was afraid for his life and probably would have to leave the country.

"Less than six months later Underhill was found shot to death in his Washington apartment. The coroner ruled it a suicide."

The passage has been widely shared since the latest document drop, but sleuths say it has been publicly available for decades.

'Release doesn't include two-thirds of promised files'

Jefferson Morley, vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, a repository for files related to the assassination, the release was an "encourage start".

But Morley said what was released Tuesday did not include two-thirds of the promised files, any of the recently discovered FBI files or 500 Internal Revenue Service records.

He added: "Nonetheless, this is the most positive news on the release of JFK files since the 1990s."

Morley said much of the "rampant over-classification of trivial information has been eliminated" from the documents.

Could take months to sift through documents

Experts have warned it could take some time to scour through more than 60,000 pages declassified by Trump.

Historian David J Garrow told the it could take months to get through every page.

Many of the documents have previously been released in partially redacted form, experts say.

Trump told reporters on Monday evening: "You got a lot of reading. I don't believe we're going to redact anything."

Phone tapping by CIA

Newly-released pages detail how the CIA tapped telephones in Mexico City between December 1962 and January 1963.

Communications of the Soviets and Cubans at their diplomatic facilities were monitored, which Lee Harvey Oswald visited in the months before JFK was killed.

Pages spell out instructions for CIA agents on how to wiretap.

This included using certain chemicals to create markings on telephone devices that could only be seen by other spies under UV light.

Document with heading 'secret'

One file has the heading "secret" and is a typed account with handwritten notes of an interview by a Warren Commission researcher in 1964.

The researcher interviewed CIA employee Lee Wigren about inconsistencies in material provided to the commission by the State Department and CIA about marriages between Soviet women and American men.

Lee Harvey Oswald, who authorities determined shot JFK, was born in Louisiana, and he was married to a Soviet woman, Marina Oswald, at the time of the assassination.

Oswald was a 'poor shot'

A document shared following the release focuses on JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Authorities determined Oswald shot the president on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

Oswald, 24, had positioned himself from a sniper's perch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building.

The file states the KGB had watched Oswald closely while he was in the USSR.

The KGB paper "also reflected that Oswald was a poor shot when he tried target firing in the USSR", the file said.

Why some JFK files were previously held back

Despite an early pledge to release all JFK records, Trump delayed full disclosure in 2017, citing concerns over national security.

While some documents were released under President Joe Biden, others remained heavily redacted or classified — until now.

Larry Sabato, an expert on Kennedy’s assassination, noted that some of the most sensitive files involve CIA activity, Oswald’s links to Cuba, and Cold War-era intelligence operations.

With this latest release, investigators hope to finally uncover what has been hidden for decades — but whether any of it changes history is still uncertain.

JFK files reveal U.S. concerns about Fidel Castro’s role in Latin America

Newly released Department of Defense documents from 1963 shed light on Cold War tensions, particularly regarding Fidel Castro and his involvement in Latin America.

One report suggests that while Castro was unlikely to provoke a direct war with the U.S., he "might intensify his support of subversive forces in Latin America."

The files also touch on the U.S. efforts to counter Cuba’s influence, reflecting the global power struggle between Washington and Havana at the height of the Cold War.

JFK Assassination Files Could Reveal CIA Knew More About Oswald

One lingering question surrounding JFK’s assassination has been what the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before the killing — and the newly released documents may provide answers.

The files reference Oswald’s visits to Mexico City just six weeks before Kennedy’s murder, including a trip to the Soviet embassy.

While the CIA has denied involvement, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, has long claimed that the agency was connected to his uncle’s death — an allegation the CIA has called baseless.