Just when I think I’ve squeezed all the data out of the various sources for the JFK ARC, another drop comes out. After checking NARA’s main page for the 2017-2018 releases, I discovered that there were two more pdf files I had not previously downloaded.
The page, www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release, features a fancy html table that gives all the data from the NARA18 spreadsheet online — or so I thought.…
[First posted on June 24, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This post continues looking at CIA records in the ARC designated “not believed relevant” (NBR). The records covered in this post relate to the KGB defector Yuri Nosenko.
Yuri Nosenko (1927-2008) was a KGB officer who defected to the United States in 1964.…
[First posted on May 14, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This is Part 2 of a series of posts I am doing on CIA records in the ARC which were designated “not believed relevant” (NBR). This post corrects the NBR count for CIA documents given in Part I, examines the release history of these NBR documents, and begins a discussion of ARRB memos on groups of NBR records.…
[First posted on May 5, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org. This is a revised version of the original post!]
This post discusses a set of records in the ARC which were withheld in full until the 2017-2018 releases. These records received much attention, but their signficance for the JFK assassination is actually quite questionable.…
[First posted on April 3, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
NF16 is a list of 3598 records in the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC) at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
NARA released the list in January 2016 in response to an FOIA request by Michael Raznitsky, who asked for a list of all records in the ARC “withheld in full” (WIF) as of November 2015.…
[First posted on March 13, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
I have done a couple of posts about the agencies whose records are missing from the Assassination Collection Reference System (ACRS), the on-line database of finding-aids for the JfK Assassination Records Collection at NARA.1 I emailed NARA about the problem a while ago and have recently heard back from them.…
[First posted on January 25, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
Having gone through tons of ARC release trivia, I’m finally looking at what it all adds to our knowledge of the JFK assassination. This post begins with a look at a December 2017 article by Max Holland, who makes many important points on this subject.…
[First posted on January 14, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
In my recent posts on the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC), I have been looking at some of the fine (even trivial) details of the most recent release of redacted texts in the Collection. This post steps back to look at totals for all seven releases of documents in 2017-2018.…
[First posted on January 7, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This post discusses NARA 18, a spreadsheet posted at the National Archives and Record Administration on 26 April 2018. NARA 18 gives a cumulative list of documents released from the JFK Assassination Records Collection from July 2017 to April 2018.
After a recount, I have to revise the file count I gave for NARA 18 on 5 May 2018 (here).…
[First posted on January 1, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
NF18 is a list of redacted documents in the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection (the ARC) held at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This is an important document for those who are interested in how much material in the Collection remains unreleased.…