Posted on 10/29/2017 8:57:24 AM PDT by drewh
President Trump said that he will release ALL of the remaining John F. Kennedy files, after being forced by U.S. spy agencies of which he has been leery to withhold thousands of still potentially sensitive documents.
"After strict consultation with General Kelly, the CIA and other agencies, I will be releasing ALL JFK files other than the names and addresses of any mentioned person who is still living," Trump tweeted. "I am doing this for reasons of full disclosure, transparency and in order to put any and all conspiracy theories to rest."
The National Archives on Thursday released 2,800 once-classified records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Behind the scenes of the much-anticipated release, Trump and his White House lawyers were purportedly until the last minute going back and forth with U.S. intelligence officials over their requests for additional redactions.
And the requests irritated Trump, who continued to resist signing off on the request, according to an account by two White House officials who spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Late last week, Trump received his first official briefing on the release in an Oval Office meeting that included Kelly, his chief of staff; White House Counsel Don McGahn and National Security Council legal adviser John Eisenberg.
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I scanned the stuff and found one CIA memo from 1993 where they said they were worried about the release of stuff due that year (which got punted to this year). The reason cited wasnt some secret conspiracy, it was that they had reflexively redacted a lot of names and collection means that the writer said probably didnt need to be due to age and individually the redactions are no biggie but there were so many of them across all docs that it was bad optics, made the CIA look like they were trying to hide something. Interesting to see that concern 25 years ago.
I hope the documents can explain how my nuclear unit in Germany was alerted one hour before the assassination to proceed to our emergency firing position. Another nuke unit (8” howitzer) at our kaserne was also alerted at the same time.
I’d like to see them explain why Oswald, after he was arrested and was being held in the Dallas jail, tried to call a counter intel guy in Raleigh, NC .
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article180610706.html
https://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/jfk-oswald-and-the-raleigh-connection/Content?oid=3192079
Or explain how a woman in Louisiana was able to tell authorities about the assassination before it happened.
https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/Rose_Cherami.html
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