Republican Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna attends the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, 22 July 2024. Photo: EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS
US Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has been given a KGB report into the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the Russian ambassador to Washington, she announced on Tuesday.
Luna said that “a team of experts” would promptly “begin translation and full review” of the 350-page report, which documents the findings of an investigation carried out by the Soviet authorities into Kennedy’s death, and promised to upload the files alongside Jefferson Morley, an American journalist who runs the JFK Facts substack.
Morley said he would be “posting translations, done by fluent Russian speakers, of significant material in the document”, while also providing further context.
The Russian Embassy in Washington confirmed that it had handed over the report at Luna’s request, saying it would be published in Russia next month.
A Republican representing the state of Florida, Luna is an avid supporter of US President Donald Trump who favours the fostering of closer ties with Russia, and who last week announced that she had agreed to meet Putin’s Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev later this month.
Luna has also repeatedly criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, describing Ukraine’s ban on religious denominations linked to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church as “banning the Orthodox Church”. She has also accused Zelensky of transferring millions of dollars to a bank account in Saudi Arabia every month without providing any evidence, a claim that has been widely reported in Russian state media.
The Kennedy assassination remains a favourite subject for conspiracy theorists more than six decades after it took place. Trump signed a decree ordering the declassification of files relating to to the case shortly after his second inauguration in January, though as the media noted at the time, almost all the released material had already been in the public domain for some time.
