Former CIA Director James Woolsey said Friday he believes John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald "may have not acted alone" — and may have been a KGB agent.
In an interview on Fox News' "The Daily Briefing," Woolsey weighed in on the politically explosive theory in the wake of the release of long-secret documents related to the 1963 assassination.
"I think there is some possible information that he was a KGB, but not a CIA" agent, Woolsey said of Oswald, adding: "He may not have acted alone, he may have acted with KGB help" in the assassination.
Woolsey said he's favored one long-held theory about the case.
"It looks as if what … may have happened was that [Soviet Union leader Nikita] Khrushchev got cold feet a few months before the assassination was to occur, and he realized that he may be starting a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which he didn't want, so he pulled back… he said 'okay, everybody called off,'" he said.
"And everybody did call it off except for Oswald, who was a deeply committed Marxist-Leninist sniper and idealist…"
"This is one theory… that I tended toward, but I am still willing to listen to the other possibilities… We will have to wait and see. It does seem to fit," he added.
As the material is released, Woolsey said, "new things will come up," noting just as they did at the beginning and end of the Cold War.
"There has been a whole history of material being turned loose and analyzed, and what tends to happen is that we get more and more conspiracy theories," he said.
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