Box 16 folders

This note provides the documentation I promised in my last post (available here). Better read that first, or the following won’t make much sense.

A folder list for box 16

As I mentioned in my last post, I checked RIF comments for records from box 16 (you have to read the last note to understand this!),…

Joe Backes on the Jan 92 checklist

This note is a continuation of my comments on the January 1992 checklist for the HSCA-CIA segregated collection (see here). Be sure to read that note before you read this note.

I recently learned that longtime JFK researcher Joe Backes also did a post mentioning the checklist. His post appeared on his substack blog “Justice for Kennedy”, and is available here.…

A checklist for the HSCA-CIA segregated collection

My interest in the ARC is often “academic”, and as a result, many of my notes on this blog are not particularly interesting for people who don’t care about the ARC as an archive. This is another such note, so caveat lector.

Reviewing the HSCA-CIA docs: the McDonald Survey

When the HSCA shut down in 1979, they made sure that all the CIA records they reviewed during their investigation were boxed, sealed, and stored for at least 30 years.…

Billings, TILT, and Watergate

Jeff Morley’s Substack blog JFK Facts has posted an interesting coda to the story of Operation TILT. (I discussed TILT in a note available here). The post features an interview with Dick Billings, the LIFE editor who accompanied William Pawley and the Cuban team to their drop off near the coast of Cuba.…

Operation TILT: a note on CIA files

This note responds to a recent post on Jefferson Morley’s JFK Facts blog from JFK researcher Malcolm Blunt. In his post, Blunt suggests that Representative Luna should go after documents in the “operational file” for CIA officer George Joannides, as opposed to documents in Joannides’ “personnel file”, such as the ones recently released.…

The 2025 RFK releases at NARA

NARA has posted three sets of documents in 2025 related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. With one exception, none of these sets are part of the JFK Assassination Records Collection, so I haven’t posted any research notes on them.

Since I have now posted a note on the new MLK releases at NARA, however, I have decided for the sake of completeness to post this brief write up on the new RFK releases as well.…

A new CIA doc release

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.…

The Latest FBI releases from NARA

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!

Format issues

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.”…