The author of books about the Kennedy assassination accused Trump of delaying the declassification of documents.

Documents about the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy in 1963 were supposed to be declassified by American leader Donald Trump during his first presidential term in 2017. This was stated on Saturday, March 22, in an interview with Izvestia by the author of the best-selling book about the Kennedy assassination and screenwriter James Diujinio.

"All the files on the Kennedy case should have been declassified back in 2017. And this is according to a law called the "Law on the collection of documents on the Kennedy case." In 2017, in October, the only person who could stop their declassification was the president, who at that time was Donald Trump," the writer said.

According to him, on the day when Trump was supposed to declassify the files, employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) came to him. They tried to force the American president to postpone the deadline for declassification, and they succeeded. Trump postponed the release date first by six months, and then by three years, our interlocutor noted.

"When Joe Biden became president, he did the same thing. He did not declassify the latest documents, but in fact, he may have done something even worse than what Trump did. He allowed the CIA and the FBI to argue with the National Archives about which documents should be declassified and which should not," Diujinio said.

At the same time, Trump admitted during the election campaign that it was a mistake not to declassify the documents, the writer added.

Diujinio noted that Fox made a "very good report" that tells why Kennedy could have been killed not by former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, but by someone else.

According to the writer, the former head of the CIA's counterintelligence service, James Jesus Angleton, used Oswald as a source of information when he traveled to the Soviet Union.

Diujinio also denied that Oswald had ever been recruited by the KGB, citing the words of a CIA double agent in the USSR State Security Committee (KGB of the USSR).

"Secondly, Oswald was a bad shot. And thirdly, the KGB had a five-volume collection of materials about the surveillance of Oswald when he was in Minsk. And the question is: where did these 5 volumes go? So yes, the CIA showed great interest in Oswald when he was heading to the Soviet Union and returning back. According to the documents, James Angleton had a 118-page dossier on Oswald on his desk at the time of the murder," the writer concluded.

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On March 19, the US National Archives, by order of Trump, published declassified documents about the assassination of Kennedy, his brother, politician Robert, and black rights activist Martin Luther King. The collection consists of more than 6 million pages of recordings, photographs, films, sound recordings and artifacts.

In turn, the grandson of the deceased president, Jack Schlossberg, criticized the American media for covering declassified documents about the murder of his grandfather in 1963. According to him, the Trump administration did not warn the Kennedy family about the publication of the materials. At the same time, he noted that the nephew of the assassinated president, Robert Kennedy Jr., who holds the post of head of the US Department of Health, knew about these plans.