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BOOK SAYS HOOVER TRIED TO COVER UP DOUBTS ABOUT SOVIET DEFECTOR

14 14-10404-10378 ok Says Hoover Tried to Cover ou United Press International The CIA strongly suspected that a Russian spy who defected in 1964 was a phony sent to cover up Lee Harvey Oswald's links to Soviet intelligence, according to a new book on the Kennedy assassin's life. It claims the CIA's suspicions were effectively smothered by J. Edgar Hoover, who allegedly feared the Russian might disgrace the FBI by testifying that Oswald, in truth, had been an unwatched Soviet agent...

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Created
Jun 6, 2025
Released
Jun 12, 2025
Publication
Feb 20, 1978
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Metadata

Document #

00364622

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Document Type

SPECIALCOLLECTION

Collection

Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Release Decision

RIFPUB

Original Classification

U

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Pages

1 pages

File Size

113 KB