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• January 30, 2026: 140 New pdfs from the JFKARC

2017-2018 releases

• 2017 JFK ARC releases at NARA: Releases 1-4
• 2017 JFK ARC releases at NARA: Release 5
• The 2017 JFK ARC releases: An audit
• 2017 JFK ARC releases at NARA: Release 6
• 2017 JFK ARC releases: Errata
• ARC Release 6: Replacing files at NARA
• ARC Release 6: The two missing files
• ARC Confusion at NARA
• ARC Release 6: Different versions
• Problems and a pause
• April 26: NARA 18, the last release?
• NARA 18, no more docs withheld in full
• NARA 18 errata corrections
• New reports on the ARC releases
• The state of the JFK ARC: The IG report
• The state of the JFK ARC: The Bradford critique
• A revised file count for NARA 18
• Max Holland on the ARC releases
• Two more files
• When is a release not a release?
• Matching NARA to MFF, part 1: July 24 release

2021 releases

• NARA on future updates and releases in the ARC
• Biden’s memo
• More on Biden’s memo
• New article on the forthcoming JFKARC releases
• December 2021 releases are up at NARA
• Summary of December 2021 releases (updated)
• A note on “missing records” in the December releases
• More commentary on the December 2021 releases
• Oswald docs in the December 2021 releases
• Redacted CIA docs, 1990-1999
• The October cables
• News coverage of the December 2021 releases
• NARA steps up
• NARA 21, part 11: Redacted CIA records – long
• Compilation of redacted CIA documents: pre-2022 release version
• “Heavily redacted” records in the ARC
• The next releases: A prediction
• Judge Tunheim’s letter to President Biden

2022 releases

• The December 2022 releases–A first look
• Redactions in CIA records: December 2022
• 74 zombie redactions bite the dust
• Redactions in the Oswald 201 file, 2022
• The fate of the heavily redacted
• A letter from Tom Flores
• Missing records, found and still lost
• New releases in the J Walton Moore OS file
• New releases in the J Walton Moore OP file
• Zombies in the House
• A flawed review: Problematic redactions in HSCA depositions
• Zombies in the House, Part Trois
• Back to the big picture: A second look at CIA redactions
• Short redacted CIA docs, 2022
• New releases up at MFF!
• Medium length redacted CIA docs, 2022
• Long redacted CIA docs, 2022
• Redacted CIA docs from the 1940s
• Redacted CIA docs from the 1990s
• A look back at December 2022: “Duplicate” records

2023 releases

• April 2023 releases from the ARC
• Redactions in the ARC: 5 lists
• April 27, 2023: more releases from the ARC
• May 11, 2023: more releases from the ARC
• June 13, 2023: more releases from the ARC
• Countdown to release
• June 27, 2023: 1103 JFK docs posted at NARA
• The JFK records review is concluded
• August 24, 2023: 21 more JFK ARC docs posted at NARA
• Bradford on the ARC, 2023
• The five transparency plans: Another look

2025 releases

• ARC redactions as of Feb 2025
• CIA redactions as of Feb 2025
• CIA record list as of Feb 2025
• Non-CIA redactions as of Feb 2025
• Non-CIA record list as of Feb 2025
• New ARC releases due 18 March 2025
• An abuse of executive power
• The last releases, part 1 [update]
• The last releases, part 2: CIA records
• The last releases, part 3A: FBI records
• 16 more pdfs
• The last releases, part 3B: Batch 4
• The last releases, part 3C: duplicate FBI records
• The last releases, part 4: Batch 3
• The last releases, part 5: NSA records
• WPR records review, part 1: The big release!
• WPR records review, part 2: WIROGUE’s lair
• WPR records review, part 3: Tichborn & Co
• WPR records review, part 4: Target study
• WPR records review, part 5: The Posada 201
• WPR records review, part 6: Mexican intelligence
• WPR records review, part 7: Broe and Miler
• WPR records review, part 8: Loose docs on Eunice Odio
• WPR records review, part 9: David Phillips’ OP files
• WPR records review, part 10: Ross Crozier’s 201 file
• The Latest FBI releases from NARA
• A new CIA doc release
• The new MLK releases from NARA
• The 2025 RFK releases at NARA
• Newly digitized JFKARC records are up!

Agency issues

• NSA documents in the ARC: The myth of “unknown” records
• Filling the gaps in the ACRS: Three sets of FBI records
• ARC agency numbers
• SISS records from the ARC now on line at Mary Ferrell
• CIA documents in the HSCA records
• CIA files on Oswald
• Supplemental CIA files in the ARC
• CIA working files and DCI minutes
• FBI files in the ARC: Core and related
• New docs from the FBI-HSCA liaison file
• The FBI-Church Committee liaison file
• New HSCA docs at MFF
• New CIA docs at MFF
• New FBI docs at MFF
• CIA redactions as of Feb 2025
• Operation TILT: a note on CIA files
• Billings, TILT, and Watergate
• A checklist for the HSCA-CIA segregated collection
• Joe Backes on the Jan 92 checklist
• Jan 92 checklist post mortem
• Box 16 folders
• The McDonald survey and memo
• A note on ARRB “final determination forms”
• “Formal” and “final” in the JFK Act
• Corrections to “Formal and final in the JFK Act”
• FBI multi-record pdfs and the MFF collection
• A phantom FBI record
• A note on CIA record management
• Untangling FBI multi-record pdfs, part I

Announcements

• Forthcoming on the site
• Collection content page up!
• Summary of Collection history now online!
• Withholding and redaction in the ARC
• New article on the forthcoming JFKARC releases
• News coverage of the December 2021 releases
• Back online!
• An interview with Fred Litwin, “On the Trail of Delusion”
• New article on NARA FOIA releases
• New page on NARA FOIA releases
• 2nd interview with Fred Litwin
• Panel discussion on youtube
• A new article from Tracy Parnell
• The Latest FBI releases from NARA

ARRB

• ARRB Electronic Records at NARA
• ARRB Federal Register Notices
• ARRB meeting notices
• ARRB record notices
• ARRB notices: additions and revisions
• ARRB resource page added
• ARRB postponements and the microfilm Oswald 201 file
• ARRB record notices: 28 Sep 1998

Collection issues

• Bill Kelly on the ARCA
• The state of the JFK ARC: The IG report
• The state of the JFK ARC: The Bradford critique
• Redaction counts in the ARC
• Max Holland on the ARC releases
• Three years later
• Biden’s memo
• Bradford on the ARC, 2021
• NARA 21, part 9: Update on CIA short docs
• How old are the redacted docs in the ARC?
• Redacted CIA docs, 1943-1949
• New article on the forthcoming JFKARC releases
• Summary of December 2021 releases (updated)
• SISS records from the ARC now on line at Mary Ferrell
• Judge Tunheim’s letter to President Biden
• Reconstructing the J Walton Moore OS file
• CIA documents in the HSCA records
• CIA files on Oswald
• Supplemental CIA files in the ARC
• CIA working files and DCI minutes
• Response to Matt Douthit
• ARC redactions as of Feb 2025
• CIA redactions as of Feb 2025
• ARRB record notices: 28 Sep 1998

FBI records

• FBI files in the ARC: Core and related
• New docs from the FBI-HSCA liaison file
• The FBI-Church Committee liaison file
• The Latest FBI releases from NARA
• A phantom FBI record
• Untangling FBI multi-record pdfs, part I

HSCA-FBI subject files

• Unredacted: The FBI files on John Caesar Grossi (I)
• Unredacted: The FBI files on John Caesar Grossi (II)
• Unredacted: The FBI files on John Caesar Grossi (III)

JFK database

• “Missing” RIFs at NARA
• A note on ACRS “audit history”
• Gaps in the ACRS: A note from NARA
• Filling the gaps in the ACRS: Three sets of FBI records
• ACRS is down
• Re-counting records at Mary Ferrell
• Just another list: NARA 20
• New version of ACRS posted at NARA

JFK database 2021

• NARA 21, part 1: A new version of the JFK database
• NARA 21, part 2: “declassify” and “pending” records
• NARA 21, part 3: “withhold” records
• NARA 21, part 4: “redact” records
• NARA 21, part 5: Redacted CIA records – short
• NARA 21, part 6: Redacted CIA records – duplicates
• NARA 21, part 7: Redacted CIA records – A cable from Helsinki
• NARA 21, part 8: More updates to the JFK database
• Bradford on the ARC, 2021
• NARA 21, part 9: Update on CIA short docs
• How old are the redacted docs in the ARC?
• Redacted CIA docs, 1943-1949
• NARA 21, part 10: CIA mid-length docs
• Oswald docs in the December 2021 releases
• Redacted CIA docs, 1990-1999
• NARA 21, part 11: Redacted CIA records – long

Mary Ferrell Foundation

• Counting records at Mary Ferrell
• “Old RIF numbers” at Mary Ferrell
• More on the “old RIF numbers” at Mary Ferrell
• pdf problems at Mary Ferrell
• Mary Ferrell pdf problem fixed
• Re-counting records at Mary Ferrell
• Matching NARA to MFF, part 1: July 24 release
• SISS records from the ARC now on line at Mary Ferrell
• MFF files suit against Biden and NARA
• Judge Tunheim’s letter to President Biden
• New releases up at MFF!
• “Missing” CIA records in the ARC (II): The DCD Garrison files
• Reconstructing the J Walton Moore OS file
• FBI files in the ARC: Core and related
• New docs from the FBI-HSCA liaison file
• New HSCA docs at MFF
• New CIA docs at MFF
• New FBI docs at MFF
• New Bradford article on MFF
• FBI files on MLK at MFF

NARA

• Another day, another NARA FOIA release
• NARA on future updates and releases in the ARC
• MFF files suit against Biden and NARA

NBR records

• NBR files in the ARC, part 1: “Not Believed Relevant”
• NBR files in the ARC, part 2: The ARRB memos
• NBR files in the ARC, part 3: Yuri Nosenko
• NBR files in the ARC, part 4: The Cuban Revolutionary Council
• NBR files in the ARC, part 5: OP files

Record issues

• 2017 JFK ARC releases: Errata
• ARC Release 6: Replacing files at NARA
• ARC Release 6: The two missing files
• ARC Confusion at NARA
• ARC Release 6: Different versions
• NARA 18 errata corrections
• Two more files
• Record number error in the 2018 releases
• When is a release not a release?
• The October cables
• WIROGUE unleashed! Whole page redactions going fast
• WPRs in NCFE files from the JFKARC
• WPRs in the “Tichborn” files
• WPRs in the Posada files
• Reconstructing the J Walton Moore OS file
• A flip flop zombie from 2023
• A look back at December 2022: “Duplicate” records
• More on “duplicate” records in December 2022
• December 2022 “duplicate records”: Note 3
• Siamese twin records
• An Iran-Contra file in the JFKARC
• The FBI issues a blank page
• NARA releases six blacked out pages
• A non-list of assassins in the ARC
• The FBI-Church Committee liaison file
• A minor note on a 2022 release
• More mixed up docs
• WPRs and Silvia Duran’s 201 file
• WPRs in the “wrong file”
• A phantom FBI record
• A note on CIA record management
• Untangling FBI multi-record pdfs, part I

Record lists

• 2017 JFK ARC releases: A comparison with the NF16 list
• NF18: Another list from NARA
• A note on NF18
• Indexing at NARA: Putting the pieces together
• Tentative numbers for NF18
• Another look at what is not in NF18
• NF18 and the 4/26 ARC releases
• A look back at NF16
• Just another list: NARA 20
• Another day, another NARA FOIA release
• CIA record list as of Feb 2025

WPR records

• WIROGUE unleashed! Whole page redactions going fast
• WPRs in NCFE files from the JFKARC
• WPRs in the “Tichborn” files
• WPRs in the Posada files
• WPRs and Silvia Duran’s 201 file
• WPRs in the “wrong file”

WPR records 2

• WPR records review, part 1: The big release!
• WPR records review, part 2: WIROGUE’s lair
• WPR records review, part 3: Tichborn & Co
• WPR records review, part 4: Target study
• WPR records review, part 5: The Posada 201
• WPR records review, part 6: Mexican intelligence
• WPR records review, part 7: Broe and Miler
• WPR records review, part 8: Loose docs on Eunice Odio
• WPR records review, part 9: David Phillips’ OP files
• WPR records review, part 10: Ross Crozier’s 201 file