Thousands of CIA, FBI Documents on JFK Assassination Released for First Time
SputnikNews.com
25.07.2017
The US National Archives have made 3,810 CIA and FBI documents on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 public for the very first time. Among the trove are 400 documents previously unavailable in any form – the rest were hitherto redacted, in some cases heavily. The pile is likely to prove a goldmine to conspiracy theorists.
In 1964, Chief Justice Earl Warren, then overseeing the Warren Commission, the US government’s first official public inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, was asked by journalists if the full record of their investigation would be made public.
“Yes, there will come a time… but it might not be in your lifetime,” Warren responded.
While the fate of the reporters is unknown, the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act stipulated all documents on the killing must be released by October 2017 — and the latest release marks the first document dump of the year.
The taking is modest — official estimates suggest around 40,000 documents remain classified, of the original five million — but nonetheless is undoubtedly chock-full of scintillating nuggets for conspiracists to get their collective teeth in to, particularly as 400 of the documents have never been seen by public eyes.
These documents were “withheld in full” as they contain information deemed at the time “security classified” — while a tantalizing classification, they may have been mundanely withheld to protect confidential sources, privacy, tax and grand jury information — all information routinely classified in the vast majority of criminal cases.
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