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.

Pages and redactions redux: CIA still on top

For those new to my commentary, my interest is redaction/declassification of security classified documents, of which the JFK Assassination Records Collection had plenty.…

This is the third note in my “Zombies in the House” trilogy (just pray that it doesn’t turn into a quadrology). Although the title is frivolous, this error in reviewing, or indexing, or whatever it was, has a lesson behind it. I doubt very much whether my note will have more than a couple of readers, but I have done my best to draw that lesson.…

This is a follow up to my last note. There are indeed problems with a set of documents originated by the HSCA. As a result, several of the new releases from NARA redact text that was put online as long as 15 years ago. These redactions should be re-reviewed and officially re-released as early as possible.…

Almost all of my work on the latest JFKARC releases has been on CIA records. This is because they have by far the lion’s share of redactions, and redaction/declassification is my main interest.

The last couple of days, however, I have been looking at record releases from the HSCA, and naturally these records, like the CIA records, have their fair share of issues, including those blood-chilling archival spooks: zombie redactions!…

I recently posted a note about the 2022 releases in the CIA Office of Security file on James Walton Moore.

Moore, who was chief of the Dallas field office for the CIA’s Domestic Contact Division during 1962-63, is suspected by conspiracy minded researchers to be a link between the CIA and Lee Oswald via George De Mohrenschildt, a Russian born geologist who was both a domestic contact for Moore and an acquaintance of Oswald.…

Several people have drawn attention in recent months to CIA records on James Walton Moore, both before and after the 12/15/22 releases. This note and a second one, also now posted, take a look at Moore’s records to see what is newly released in 2022 and what is still redacted.

Who was J.

NARA is still looking for some records that they have in their index, but can’t find on the shelves. This is a subject I last visited in this note. Refer there if you need more details. There were 79 of these docs in 2018, but by 2021 NARA had found or otherwise accounted for 46 of them, leaving 33 still missing.…

An important issue in publishing security classified documents is whether to release the names of former intelligence officers. This is an important reason for continued redaction of JFKARC documents. Based on the CIA’s own index, it is probably the single largest reason for CIA redactions.

Unfortunately, because of the “chicken and egg” nature of the problem, we very seldom hear from the affected officers themselves.…

In a post I did a little more than a week before the 12-15-2022 releases, I profiled several CIA docs as samples of “heavy redaction”. Now the new releases are out. How did these documents fare? Behold!

The CI staff “not me” list

The doc is self-explanatory. Here is a link to the 2018 version that I posted last time:

104-10130-10282

Here is the same doc this time around:

104-10130-10282

This time the list is released in full.…