The CIA has finally released some of the documents on CIA officer George Joannides that writer Jefferson Morley has been demanding for over a decade. The ARRB did not include these documents in the ARC, so they are not a formal part of the JFK Collection, but they are, of course, worth a look.…
NARA posted the “new” FBI releases related to the JFK assassination today (6/28/25). The announcement was posted on the 2025 releases page here, and the links for downloading are here. Twelve pages of links, get them while they’re hot!
Happily, the releases are available as pdfs, just click on the link to the download page and look for the phrase “Files Available for Download — Other Files.”…
Tracy Parnell has one of the best researched, best written JFK related blogs around. His latest post is on the complicated issue of CIA officer George Joannides. The article is available here.
Tracy has previously done a couple of illuminating posts on Joannides. I helped him with background research on this latest article, which focuses on what former HSCA General Counsel G.…
Our review of whole page redactions continues with a look at the files of CIA career agent Ross Crozier. These include a five volume 201 file, a regular personnel file, and a C-file (collecting clearance information on Crozier).
In 2023, three volumes of the 201 file had a total of 18 whole pages redacted, as well as dozens of shorter redactions in most of the files.…
The JFKARC.INFO series on records with whole page redactions (WPRs) continues. This note looks at the personnel files for David Phillips. Phillips had multiple volumes in his personnel file, with lengthy whole page redactions all the way up until 2025.
All of Phillip’s personnel files are now released in full. What did the final releases show us?…
We are up to note 8 in our series on records that had whole page redactions. This note discusses a CIA record about a Costa Rican poet which previously had 17 of its 20 pages completely redacted. Now those pages are released. What was all the mystery about? Read on to find out.…
Continuing with our review of CIA files with whole page redactions, we come to the category of OP (Office of Personnel) files. This note covers two OP files which each had 27 whole page redactions in 2023. Both files are now released in full.
The subjects of these files were two senior CIA officers: William Broe and Newton S.…
After a string of records unrelated to the JFK assassination, I finally get to write about a release that is highly relevant to the JFK assassination: ARC 104-10535-10001, aka “SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE PACKAGE” (SIP).
Like more than one record in the ARC, it is not clear at first glance what the SIP is.…
This note looks at the lengthy and complex 201 file of erstwhile CIA informant, agent, and asset, Luis Posada. Like all the other CIA records posted in 2025, Posada’s 201 file is now released in full. There is nothing related to the assassination in the file, but there are surprises in other areas.…
This note looks at a record that was over 95% redacted in 2023, and is now released in full. What is its significance for assassination research? See my two cents below.
The final release of ARC 104-10437-10091 is worth at least a cheer and a half. This 49 page record had only two pages released in 2023, and even those two had several important items redacted.…