Russia Releases Secret JFK Assassination Files to US Revealing Historic Plans for US-Russia Bridge Connection

The Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge was once proposed to connect two Cold War adversaries.

A 350-page Russian document concerning the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy has captured widespread attention, not primarily for its contents about the 1963 assassination, but for revealing plans of a bridge that was once conceptualized to connect Russia and the United States.

Russia's ambassador in Washington delivered these files to US Representative Anna Paulina Luna. "The following report (referring to) the JFK assassination was delivered to me by the Ambassador from Russia and is now made accessible to the American public at the link below," Luna announced on X, while sharing the documents.

Luna noted that although "experts are actively authenticating the legitimacy of these documents," they are presently considered to be authentic.

Russia's embassy in Washington confirmed sharing these archives and indicated that the complete set would be published in Moscow in November. Russian media outlet Sputnik described the document as "Kremlin's official findings on the JFK assassination." These files could potentially provide insights into what the KGB, the Soviet Union's security agency, knew regarding Kennedy's assassination.

One particularly intriguing document includes a Cold War-era map illustrating a proposed bridge connecting the United States and the USSR (now Russia).

The maps reveal that at one point, these Cold War rivals contemplated building a bridge between Alaska and Siberia across the Bering Strait. At their closest proximity, the two nations are separated by merely 3.8 kilometres, between Little Diomede (US) and Big Diomede (Russia).

This bridge project was named the Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge.

The map has reignited discussions in Moscow about reviving this ambitious project. Kirill Dmitriev, President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy, shared the bridge image on X, advocating for the plan's revival.

"With modern The Boring Company technology, this could become a Putin-Trump tunnel connecting Eurasia and the Americas for < $8 billion," Dmitriev posted, referencing Elon Musk's tunnelling enterprise.

In a subsequent post, he wrote, "Elon Musk, imagine connecting the US and Russia. The Americas and Afro-Eurasia, with the Putin-Trump Tunnel, a 70-mile link symbolising unity. Traditional costs are $65B+, but [Musk's] Boring Company's tech could reduce it to less than $8 billion. Let's build a future together!"

While some welcome the release of these documents, others question the timing and motivations behind it. The handover occurs during a period of strained US-Russia relations and continuing tensions regarding the conflict in Ukraine.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, was killed before standing trial, and the 1964 Warren Commission concluded he had acted alone.

Oswald had resided in the USSR for nearly three years and, weeks prior to the shooting, had attempted to obtain a visa from a Soviet mission in Mexico City. The KGB had maintained close surveillance on him during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

During the 1990s, the US Congress sought access to Soviet files regarding Kennedy's death but only received summaries during the Clinton administration, according to the New York Post.