This note is really for my own reference, but may be helpful for one or two other people, somewhere, somehow.
Ever see a peanut M&M with two peanuts? If you have, that is what a siamese twin record is. The case I am looking at in this note is the 2023-06-28 release of record 124-10328-10029, with 31 pages (available here).…
This note covers one final case of multiple pdfs posted at NARA under one record number. Like the other cases discussed in the previous two notes (available here and here), this note involves CIA info in FBI records. Unlike the previous notes, this time I go into problems in the 2022 CIA document index which I have tried to use to explain things.…
This note continues the previous note, which looked at “duplicate” records in the December 2022 releases. This odd type of releasing has occurred more than once in the ARC, and is worth a closer look for people who obsess over the mechanics of ARC declassification methods.
For everyone else, this is hardcore inside baseball, and you should probably skip this note.…
This is another very technical post, don’t bother with it unless you are obsessive over matching up numbers and pages in JFK ARC releases. This is my least favorite ARC subject by far, but if you want to understand the ARC review and release process in detail, it is something you can’t skip over.…
Zombie redactions have been a topic on this blog several times. Check the search box for the various references. As defined more than once, “A zombie redaction is a redaction in copy X of a document which has already been released in copy Y of the same document, available in some other file or folder or microfilm reel.”…
Matt Douthit, a JFK assassination researcher, posted a comment on Fred Litwin’s Youtube interview with me. I respond to Douthit’s comment in this note.
Apologists: “There’s nothing to see in the remaining sealed files!”
In reality…
David Morales—61 pages still classified
William King Harvey—123 pages still classified
Anne Goodpasture—286 pages still classified
E.…
Last week I had the pleasure of appearing on a new podcast series that Fred Litwin has started for his blog, “On the Trail of Delusion.” Fred has published three very interesting and useful books on the JFK assassination in addition to his blog, and his work is well worth a read.…
This note concludes my survey of CIA record categories in the JFKARC. It is the fourth and last note in the series. Links to the series are available here. The two categories summarized below include fewer than 540 records, but some of these are quite interesting.
From the early days of the CIA, the DCI (head of the CIA) held a meeting every morning with CIA executive officers, a practice that lasted up until the mid-1970s.…
This is another long-overdue note giving a brief overview of CIA files on Lee Oswald, the man who shot President Kennedy. It is the second in a series of notes on CIA records in the JFKARC. The first note, on CIA docs in HSCA records, is available here.
Note the plural in the title of this post; there were multiple CIA files devoted to Oswald over the years, as well as files where Oswald was mentioned, but was not the main subject.…