JFK files have been released by US President Donald Trump - 2,800 never before seen files. Here's the latest on from the assassination files, the declassified documents and the best revelations.
Donald Trump has released 2,800 classfied files which reveal more than ever before on the assassination of John F Kennedy.
The documents were published on the National Archives late last night and since analysts and journalists have been pouring over the files and approximately 5 million pages.
Trump has however yielded to pressure from government agencies and special services to withhold 300 files.
Congress had ordered in 1992 that all records relating to the investigation into Kennedy's death should be open to the public, and set a final deadline of Oct. 26, 2017, for the entire set to be made public.
Trump had confirmed this week that he would allow for the opening of the documents, "subject to the receipt of further information."
Administration officials told reporters on a conference call that Trump ordered government agencies to study the redactions in withheld documents over the next 180 days to determine whether they needed to remain hidden from the public. After the review, Trump expected such withholdings to be rare.
The White House said remaining records with redactions would be released "on a rolling basis" in the coming weeks.
The House Select Committee on Assassinations found that it was unlikely Cuba would not kill Kennedy in retaliation for the CIA's attempt on Castro's life as it was "not worth it."
“The Committee does not believe Castro would have assassinated President Kennedy, because such an act, if discovered, would have afforded the United States the excuse to destroy Cuba,” the draft report states.
“The risk would not have been worth it.”
9.40am update: $100,000 to kill Castro and $20,000 Che GuevaraAnother FBI memo on Castro has revealed the sum that was touted to kill the Cuban dictator.
A 1964 FBI memo describes a meeting in which Cuban exiles tried to set a price on the heads of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. “It was felt that the $150,000 to assassinate FIDEL CASTRO plus $5,000 expense money was too high,” the memo noted.
At a later meeting, they settled on lower sums: $100,000 for Fidel, $20,000 for Raul and $20,000 for Che.
9.20am update: Martin Luther King was an FBI targetThe released files revealed Martin Luther King Jr was a well known target of the FBI. One file, which is heavily redacted from May 18-19, 1966 shows a list of phone calls to and from King. Another shows concerns over his relationship with communist movements.
"In Subject’s many activities in the civil rights movement, he has sought and relied upon the advice of various individuals, including the following:"— where the list is redacted.
The file continues to detail King’s authoring of an article titled "What We Negroes Ask of the President," noteworthy for its "exclusive publication" in an October 1964 issue of Vie Nuove, "an Italian weekly magazine owned by the Italian Communist Party."
8.50am update: Soviet officials were fearful US would launch missilesSoviets and KGB officials were fearful that the US might launch missiles at the Soviet Union in retaliation for JFK's death.
According to a memo released in the files the KGB wrote: "Our source further stated that Soviet officials were fearful that without leadership, some irresponsible general in the United States might launch a missile at the Soviet Union."
Soviet officials feared an “irresponsible” US general could launch a missile strike in the wake of the crisis.
8.40am update: Lee Harvey Oswald spoke in 'broken Russian'Lee Harvey Oswald, the perpetrator of the John F. Kennedy assassination spoke in 'broken Russian', a memo sent from US intelligence officials claimed.
Oswald was intercepted speaking to an agent of the KGB, the ruthless security and intelligence arm of the Soviet Union, just a couple months prior to the Kennedy shooting.
His links to Russia were feared within US special services although Soviet officials were fearful of this and sent information linking Lyndon Johnson to the assassination.
Records show that during a call between him and the Russian embassy in Mexico Oswald was heard speaking to Consul Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikova "in broken Russian,"
The declassified documents say he was an "identified KGB officer."
8.18am update: US Government ordered series of CIA assassination plots against world leaders including CastroUS meddling in foreign affairs, including frequent plots to murder foreign leaders, have been laid bare and branded "unlawful" in one of the thousands of former classified files.
A document released today dated May 30, 1975, entitled a "summary of facts on CIA plots to assassinate foreign leaders," goes into detail on the well known CIA attempts to execute Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro, using US Mafia hitmen.
Several attempts were made on the life of Castro from 1960 to late 1963 - just before JFK was gunned down on November 22 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
8.01am update: Soviets believed Oswald was 'neurotic'Soviet Union leaders considered Oswald a “neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country and everything else”, according to an FBI memo documenting reactions in the USSR to the assassination.
7.45am update: Robert F Kennedy was warned of a book detailing an 'affair' with Marilyn MonroeRobert F Kennedy, the younger brother of JFK was sent a memo warning him that a book was about to be released revealing his 'close relationship' with Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.
“The strange death of Marilyn Monroe,” a 1964 book by Frank Capell, alluded to the pair frequently, the memo revealed.
“Throughout the book … Capell claims that you had a close relationship with Miss Monroe,” documents show officials warning Robert F. Kennedy, the then-Attorney General.
7.21am update: Russia 'had information' that Vice President Lyndon Johnson was behind assassinationRussian sources in the KGB had 'data' that indicated Vice President Lyndon Johnson was responsible for the assassination of JFK.
A top secret memo was sent to the White House by FBI director J.Edgar Hoover and forwarded onto Johnson's aide Marvin Watson claims that the JFK murder was a "well-organised conspiracy."
The 1966 note quoted a Russian mole who claimed that the plot was a bid by the "ultra-right" to effect a "coup."
"They seemed convinced that the assassination was not the deed of one man, but it arose out of a carefully planned campaign in which several people played a part,’" said the memo.
6.30am update: UK newspaper told to contact US embassy 25 minutes before assassinationA local UK newspaper was told that “some big news” was about to happen 25 minutes before President John F Kennedy was assassinated, it has been revealed.
A memo to the director of the FBI stated that a senior reporter at the Cambridge News received a call at 18:05pm GMT (12:05CT) where he was given the warning - JFK was shot at 12:30 Central Standard Time.
The document, from deputy director James Angleton, said: "The British Security Service (MI5) has reported that at 18.05GMT on 22 November an anonymous telephone call was made in Cambridge, England, to the senior reporter for the Cambridge News.
"The caller said only that the Cambridge News reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up.
"After the word of the President's death was received the reporter informed the Cambridge police of the anonymous call and the police informed MI5."
5.38am update: Hoover had concerns the US public would not believe Oswald storyJ Edgar Hoover, the FBI director spoke of his concern that Lee Harvey Oswald's death would mean the US public would question his guilt.
On the day that JFJ was assassinated Hoover penned a memo discussing the need for concrete evidence.
He wrote: "The thing I am concerned about, and so is [Deputy Attorney General Nicholas] Katzenbach, is having something issued so that we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin."
Hoover added: "There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead."
4.30am update: Trump pressured to withhold 300 papers by security bossesDonald Trump has decided to hold back some of the super-secret JFK files at the last minute, White House officials have said.
Trump said: "Executive departments and agencies have proposed to me that certain information should continue to be redacted because of national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns.
"I have no choice -- today -- but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation's security."