This note takes a look at who is releasing redactions left in the JFK Assassination Records Collection, and how many redactions are left. It’s not who you thought, and there are not many, it turns out.
Most of my notes on the December 2022 releases in the JFK ARC at NARA have dealt with CIA records.…
April 12 saw the release of redactions from 422 records in the JFK ARC. This means there are now fewer than 4000 “Section 5” records with redactions. This note takes a look at the new releases: where are they from and what kind of information has been released.
Which agencies have released new information this time?…
Hello and apologies for anyone who wanted to access this site in the last week and a half. A long overdue upgrade to my server left it hors de combat, until I finally figured out what the problem, with a little help from number two son. There are new releases and I have new research as well to put on line; right now, however, I am still checking to make sure functionality is fully restored.…
My most recent note took a second look at redacted CIA docs from the 1940s, to see what is now open after the December 2022 releases. This note does the same thing for redacted docs from the 1990s. My original post on this subject from 2021 is here.
All of these 1990s records are notes, memos, letters, and cables about matters relating to the JFK Act and the ARRB, and are classified in the JFK database as “JFK-M”, where the M stands for miscellaneous.…
Three notes I posted last year looked at ARC redactions chronologically. The first note looked at the chronological distribution of redacted docs, the second note looked at redacted docs dated to the 1940s, and the third note looked at redacted docs from the 1990s.
This note takes a second look at the 1940s.…
This post picks up from my previous one, and continues grinding through comparisons of CIA redactions in 2021 and 2022 in order to get a better idea of what they are still holding out on us. This note takes a second look at “long” (10 pages) redacted docs. (Those interested can find my first article on the long docs here.)…
This post picks up from the previous one, and continues grinding through comparisons of CIA redactions in 2021 and 2022 in order to get a better idea of what they are still holding out on us. This time I look at “medium-length” (2-10 page) redacted docs. These medium long docs are now the largest component in the redacted doc pile.…
That was fast.
The December 2022 releases in the ARC are up at the Mary Ferrell Foundation website. These will be OCR’d and integrated into the superb MFF document database, substantially enhancing their research value. Big thanks from researchers everywhere to Rex Bradford, head guru of the MFF.
As a bonus, Rex also has a long note up on what’s in and out of the new releases.…
This post picks up from the previous one, and continues grinding through comparisons with CIA redactions in 2021 and 2022 in order to get a better idea of what they are still holding out on us. This post looks at “short” (one page) redacted docs. I will suggest below that these short docs are still over-redacted.…
My recent posts on HSCA documents in the ARC having reached the outer limits of inside baseball, this note will return to my more usual boring topic of counting records and redactions.
For those new to my commentary, my interest is redaction/declassification of security classified documents, of which the JFK Assassination Records Collection had plenty.…