Ex-CIA Chief Says Soviets Ordered The Assassination Of JFK by : Saman Javed on : 23 Feb 2021 15:29 PA Images An ex-CIA chief has alleged that a Soviet leader ordered the assassination of President John F Kennedy in a new tell-all book. The book, which is co-authored by a Romanian intelligence chief, claims that Nikita Khrushchev ordered Lee Harvey Oswald to kill the president. The officers claim the Soviets later changed their minds and abandoned the plan, but Oswald refused. Advert 10 Operation Dragon: Inside The Kremlin’s Secret War on America, released today, February 23, is written by Ambassador R James Woolsey, who headed up the CIA from 1993–1995, and Lieutenant General Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former acting chief of Communist Romania’s espionage service.