New evidence and analysis suggest that Nikita Khrushchev and the KGB were behind the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and a Mafia sniper participated in the shooting.
Some observers have always considered the Soviets a likely suspect. Lyndon Johnson evidently did. According to the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ chief counsel, Robert Blakey, after the assassination the Soviets went on nuclear alert. Johnson assured the Soviets that the US had no evidence of Soviet involvement and planned no reprisals. He also ordered the suppression of any hint of a KGB conspiracy for fear that an outraged public would demand retaliation that would lead to nuclear war.1 The Soviets had a palpable, powerful motive: to gain revenge for the humiliation of Khrushchev and the USSR in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
Certainly, the idiosyncratic odyssey of Lee Harvey Oswald into the Soviet Union and a Russian marriage as well as his contacts with Soviet diplomatic offices preceding the assassination afforded the KGB many opportunities to interact with him. In a sense, therefore, the KGB is the elephant in the living room of suspects in this case. Yet repeated investigations have failed to turn up specific evidence that would implicate the KGB.
There are good reasons to think that the KGB arranged the murders of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy, as well as of other Americans. Note: “good reasons”, not definitive proof. In each case, I will argue that We must consider the KGB the leading suspect (except that a KGB rogue and the Mafia collaborated on the JFK assassination). This perception can guide further investigation that can result in the more definitive finding that the KGB arranged these and related murders.