Another look at what is not in NF18

[First posted on March 25, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]

NF18 is a list of 22,933 records in the JFK Assassination Record Collection that have not yet been released in full. It is the result of an FOIA request from John Greenewald, who runs the website The Black Vault. The list is available as an excel file at NARA’s FOIA Electronic Reading Room (here) or at the FOIA Online site (here)

John Greenewald’s view

After receiving NF18, Greenewald compared it with NARA 17, the list of ARC documents processed and posted on-line at NARA in 2017.…

NSA documents in the ARC: The myth of “unknown” records

[First posted on March 20, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]

Of the 35556 records from the JFK Assassination Record Collection (ARC) which were processed by NARA in 2017, one of the more interesting sets was 244 records from the National Security Agency (NSA). Two of these records had been withheld in full; the 2017 release was the first time they became available to the public.…

Problems and a pause

[First posted on February 22, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]

I am concerned that I have gotten several things wrong in recent posts, so for now I am going to stop posting about the JFK ARC releases at NARA. It will probably take a while to figure out what’s what. This post is a brief note on my concerns.…

Tentative numbers for NF18

[First posted on February 15, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]

I have finished looking at the 3082 records which are listed in NARA 2018, but not in NARA 2017, as discussed by John Greenewald (see earlier post). Unfortunately, I have not been able to access NARA’s JFK Records Collection catalog for over 5 days now.…

Indexing at NARA: Putting the pieces together

[First posted on February 12, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]

This is another post on the JFK Records Act Release 6 at NARA. To get up to speed on the subject, I suggest looking at the other posts in this category (JFK ARCA).

As I noted at the end of a recent post, NARA’s spreadsheet for JFK record act release 6 lists a number of records where there are two different files having the same record number.…

A note on NF18

[First posted on February 11, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]

I am still looking at NF18, the new list of JFK records from NARA which The Black Vault website posted January 29. It is interesting and helpful information, but as I said in my last post, I don’t think the list indicates there are still over 3000 JFK records that have never been released.…

ARC Release 6: Different versions

[First posted on January 28, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]

As I noted in an earlier post, there are a number of records listed twice in NARA’s spreadsheet of the JFK ARC documents which it has posted on line.

These double listings come in two varieties: in one case there are actually two files posted at NARA: one from release ‘A’ and one from release ‘B’, both files presenting the same document, but with various differences between them.…