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Lost, Not Found: Raft of CIA Files on Lee Harvey Oswald Has 'Gone Missing'

An independent researcher has found a set of CIA files on Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, has gone missing.

By law, all of the US government's files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy must be released by October 26, 2017. One batch of records won't be among them — namely, a specific set of CIA files on alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

The records were part of a seven-volume file on Oswald, held by the Agency's Office of Security — a division responsible for protecting CIA property and vetting agency personnel, which maintains a file system independent of the CIA's Central File Registry.

Declassified CIA records show that one set — Volume 5 — is missing. The disappearance, discovered by JFK researcher Malcolm Blunt, is significant — the OS was the first division of the CIA to open a file on Oswald.