Prior to the 2025 releases, over six hundred pages in the ARC were completely redacted. These redacted pages have been a frequent subject on this blog, check out the blog category WPR records (whole page redactions).
The amount of information on these pages far surpassed every individual item redaction, paragraph redaction, and text block redaction in the rest of the collection.…
Another 207 pdfs were posted at NARA today (04-03-2025). This is the fifth batch of records posted this year, for an overall total of 2566 pdfs in 2025. Today’s pdfs were all NSA records. This is news, don’t miss the full story below!
NSA records have a checkered history in the ARC.…
This note looks at the ARC records posted at NARA on March 20. This was the third set of records posted, so they are batch 3. I have already covered batch 4, so this will probably be the last note in my overview of the 2025 releases, unless there is a batch 5.…
This note takes up a very messy, boring subject, so I’ll try to keep it short and snappy. It helps that not much is at stake in these releases.
Before you read this note, take a look at part 3A. That gives an overview of FBI doc problems in 2025.…
This note surveys the 16 additional ARC pdfs posted by NARA on 26 March. This is the fourth set of pdfs NARA has posted, so call these “batch 4”. Short story: these are all FBI/NSA docs, all are released in full. No more redactions here. One is JFK related, the others are not.…
On March 26, NARA posted 16 more pdfs of previously redacted records at the ARC website. Thanks to Fred Litwin for the heads up!
Ack! The only way to get these pdfs is to download everything again. This seems a poor solution to the problem of updating a release. Post them to another directory so we can just download the latest from there, or something.…
This post reviews the 2025 releases from FBI records in the ARC. FBI records have some complicated problems, so this note cannot cover them as thoroughly as the last note covered CIA records. The note will also skip any discussion of the 100+ FBI records re-posted at NARA on March 20.…
This post reviews the 2025 releases from CIA records in the ARC. The short version: Every CIA doc that was posted at NARA this month was released in full. No redactions are left in those docs.
Here is a summary of what is in this post:
At the end of February 2025, I wrote that 1482 CIA records still had redactions.
[03-23 update: After the first version of this note went online, NARA released a third batch of pdfs on 03-20. I have revised the note to discuss this new batch]
This post is a survey of the March 18 and 20 releases from the JFK Assassination Records Collection. NARA posted pdfs for 2182 records on March 18 in two batches, then a third batch of 161 records on 3/20.…
The long awaited JFK ARC releases finally came on 18 March 2025. Unfortunately, they came with a price. Along with releasing all the names, places and details previously redacted in the collection, the Trump administration decided to release the social security numbers of hundreds of people still living. I have written about this issue on this blog more than once.…