WPR records review, part 1: The big release!

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.…

16 more pdfs

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.…

The last releases, part 2: CIA records

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:

  • CIA records I missed in my redaction count
  • CIA records that were not posted on NARA this time
  • 600+ whole page redactions were released in full
  • Everything else was released in full too
  • Records where a lot of material was released
  • The microfilm Oswald 201 file was NOT released
  • CIA records I missed in my redaction counts

    At the end of February 2025, I wrote that 1482 CIA records still had redactions.

The last releases, part 1 [update]

[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.…