The secret JFK assassination files are finally here
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#2The juice: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release2022
Some interesting stuff in there, just from browsing the overview .XLSX file.
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#3It’s amazing that in the scene in JFK he talked about how (I don’t remember the scene exactly) presidential records on the JFK assassination would be sealed until the 2030s, and how excited he was that his grandchildren would be able to read it.
And even with all that pushback it’s still true. They keep releasing 70%, making that last bit of the documents that’s unreleased ever smaller. But there’s always something unreleased!
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#4> In a memo, President Biden authorized more than 70% of the roughly 16,000 remaining files on JFK's death to "now be released in full."
What about the remaining percentage? Why is that not being released?
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#5> In a memo, President Biden authorized more than 70% of the roughly 16,000 remaining files on JFK's death to "now be released in full." What about the remaining percentage? Why is that not being released?
> 70% ... "now released in full."
Is this the new "70% of the time it works every time"? (I get that "in full" means "not redacted" but it's still a funny juxtaposition of words.)
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#6It’s amazing that in the scene in JFK he talked about how (I don’t remember the scene exactly) presidential records on the JFK assassination would be sealed until the 2030s, and how excited he was that his grandchildren would be able to read it. And even with all that pushback it’s still true. They keep releasing 70%, making that last bit of the documents that’s unreleased ever smaller. But there’s always something u…
Is there anything of interest in there? I imagine not 30% is quite a lot.
Surely all the juicy stuff is held back.
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#7> In a memo, President Biden authorized more than 70% of the roughly 16,000 remaining files on JFK's death to "now be released in full." What about the remaining percentage? Why is that not being released?
I wonder if it's along the lines of 30% of the pages have PII on them. something along the lines of "visited ${person} at their home located at ${address}" and they're censoring that portion?
Will be interesting to see what all's been released, but I feel like at this point he (jfk) had so many enemies (Cuba/three letter agencies/mob) that short of someone coming forward with a confession and new solid evidence we'll never know much beyond Oswald.
I do think most likely though that Oswald was just off his rocker.
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#8If they keep holding back documentation on a public event that occured decades ago the truth is certainly awful, along the lines of "Mossad/Shin Bet did it."
If Russia did it the information would have been released by now due to total collapse of diplomatic relations.
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#9If they keep holding back documentation on a public event that occured decades ago the truth is certainly awful, along the lines of "Mossad/Shin Bet did it." If Russia did it the information would have been released by now due to total collapse of diplomatic relations.
The most credible theory at this point seems to be that it was indeed a CIA operation and that George Bush Sr. ran the field ops on it. Too many pieces of evidence don't make any sense if he wasn't involved in the planning and cleanup portion.
Sounds crazy reading the above, but as skeptical as I've been over the years of every theory, this is the closest to the truth based on the evidence that we have.
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#10It’s amazing that in the scene in JFK he talked about how (I don’t remember the scene exactly) presidential records on the JFK assassination would be sealed until the 2030s, and how excited he was that his grandchildren would be able to read it. And even with all that pushback it’s still true. They keep releasing 70%, making that last bit of the documents that’s unreleased ever smaller. But there’s always something u…
Is there anything of interest in there? I imagine not 30% is quite a lot. Surely all the juicy stuff is held back.
Looks like we are now allowed to know that the CIA had agents in Australia but didn't want to admit it:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/10...
...was that really so secret 60 years ago that we had to keep the memo about the memo under wraps? And still so secret that even this revelation has so many redactions?