New Delhi, March 20 -- The latest batch of declassified files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy released on March 19 has reportedly indicated that the US' federal intelligence service - the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - had secret bases in New Delhi and Kolkata.

The CIA's New York division oversaw secret bases in multiple locations, revealed the documents referred to as 'JFK files' shedding light on the agency's covert operations in India and several other countries.

The CIA bases were located in New Delhi, Calcutta (Kolkata) in India, Ankara, Istanbul (Turkey), Beirut (Lebanon), Tehran (Iran), Rawalpindi (Pakistan), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Seoul in South Korea, and Tokyo in Japan.

The document, which car...