Kennedy murder was a problem for KGB

The assassination of US President John Kennedy in 1963 caused a shock in the Soviet Union, the bells sounded in honor of the president, reads in the documents revealed.

"The source who in the past provided reliable information and who was in Russia at the time of the Kennedy assassination reported on December 4, 1963, that the news of President Kennedy's assassination had arrived in Russia shortly after the incident. shock and consternation, church bells sounded in honor of President Kennedy, "reads the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document, signed by John Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI.

The documents reveal meetings between Soviet diplomats and representatives of the State Security Committee, better known by its acronym KGB, where they discussed the consequences of the assassination of the president. More than that, the source told the FBI that the permanent representative of the Soviet Union at the UN, Nikolai Fedorenko, gathered officials and told them that the Soviet Union lamented the president's death and that Kennedy shared mutual understanding with Moscow "to some extent "and wanted to improve relations between the Soviet Union and the US.
The head of the KGB's residence in New York, Colonel Boris Ivanov, gathered his officials and declared that Kennedy's murder was a "problem" for the KGB, the FBI report said. The identity of the source was not revealed.

Current US President Donald Trump ordered the temporary public retention until April 26, 2018 of some secret documents relating to the assassination of President John Kennedy in 1963, which occurred at the height of the Cold War.