Scientia Press

The assassinations of the 1960s and the tragic events of 2001 have resisted resolution for many years.  Now young Americans have an opportunity to contribute to solving them.  Steven J. Dillon and Kenneth J. Dillon of Scientia Press suggest why the investigations have not borne fruit, how we can reach more clarity, and what special strengths young Americans can bring to the effort to get to the bottom of them.

Young Americans Can Help Resolve Our Historical Tragedies

Steven J. Dillon and Kenneth J. Dillon, June 12, 2025

Both the assassinations of the 1960s–John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert F. Kennedy–and the tragic events of 2001 changed the course of the country yet left more questions than answers. Older generations of Americans have extensively researched and debated theories of these events but have failed to converge on solutions even as their views have hardened. For 2001, they don’t even agree on which events should be included. Now, however, young Americans, many of whom were not even alive in 2001, have an opportunity and a duty to investigate these events and uncover truths that have been hidden but not necessarily lost.
Investigations into the assassinations of the 1960s reveal several clues,

Former Romanian intelligence chief Ion Mihai Pacepa’s Programmed to Kill.  Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination gives us a professional analysis of Oswald’s path to the murder of JFK.  Here historian Kenneth J. Dillon and researcher Steven J. Dillon discuss the high points of the book and how its KGB rogue theory outperforms other theories of the assassination.  But Pacepa was unaware of JFK’s lady friend Mary Meyer’s story and the Mafia role.

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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 the KGB 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.

First, I will explain how the KGB and Mafia have emerged as the prime suspects in the JFK assassination.  Not only was this the most important and best-known case.  New evidence and interpretation point to the KGB’s role in particular and have implications for the other murders.  Second, I will treat each of ten likely KGB murders in summary fashion.  Third, I will touch on factors that have hampered resolution of these cases for many decades.  Fourth, comparing the cases, I will identify characteristics of the KGB’s art of deniable murder.  Fifth, I will draw some conclusions.

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1. The KGB and JFK