The National Archives on Tuesday released thousands of dedla for recorded pages related to the killing of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
The note was posted to the National Archives website, joining recent notes released in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2017-2018.
“This release consists of around 80,000 pages of the record previously classified which will be issued without editor,” said the announcement from the National Intelligence Director’s Office. “Additional documents detained under the court seal or for the confidentiality of the jury, and notes subject to section 6103 of the internal revenue code, must not be sealed before it was released.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 23 which directed the release of all the remaining records related to the murder, saying that it was a “public interest” to do so.
This release includes a long-awaited text and not Redacted from the Memo June 1961 on the CIA, which was sent to President Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The memo contained strong criticism of spy agents only a few months after the CIA supported the invasion of the Bay of Pigs that were not filled with Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
The version previously released from a 63-year-old memo contains more than one full-editorial page of classification that produces many interests among researchers and conspiracy theorists, especially those who have an unfounded view that the CIA may have played a role in Kennedy’s murder.
Schlesinger argues to Kennedy that the CIA dependence on “American sources controlled” has violated the traditional functions of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and that the CIA may have tried to infiltrate American allies politics.
President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and the others smiled at the crowd that coated their procession routes in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963.
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“Today’s CIA has almost many people under the official cover abroad such as the country,” Schlesinger wrote in 1961, adding that in certain countries, the presence of CIA “defeated personnel of the regular foreign department.”
The memo section that was previously classified quoted a special number of CIA personnel who had been placed in the US Embassy in Paris, where “the CIA even tried to monopolize contact with certain French political personalities, including the President of the National Assembly,” said the Memo.
Schlesinger also detailed the number of CIA sources in Austria and Chile, information in memos that have been classified until now.
The release of the newly declassified material came a day after Trump announced to reporters that the government would begin to release records on Tuesday, encouraging the struggle in the Department of Justice to free the lawyer to assist the declaration process.
The Congress voted in 1992 to ask the government to release and decabulate all records related to murder and further investigation in 2017, but the deadline was repeatedly pushed again by Trump and President Joe Biden because of national security issues.
Tuesday’s release represents a small stage, which is extraordinary of more than six million pages of Kennedy’s murder record collected by the National Archives – which have been largely described and available online or directly to be reviewed, according to the agency.
Also released Tuesday was 14 documents related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968, with a total of around 1,050 pages.
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