Category Archives: ++2022 releases

The most recent release of redacted material from the ARC was on December 15, 2022. A great deal of material was released this time, but approximately 4000 records still have redactions. More coming on this.

New releases in the J Walton Moore OP file

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.…

A letter from Tom Flores

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.…

The fate of the heavily redacted

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.…

Redactions in the Oswald 201 file, 2022

Earlier this year, I tried to summarize the state of CIA files on Lee Oswald, the assassin of President Kennedy (the note is here). The new releases are up, so another update is in order. Unfortunately, this will not be the last update I do on this subject!

CIA Oswald files pre-2021-22

There are multiple CIA files on Oswald.…

74 zombie redactions bite the dust

If this title perplexes you, read this note first.

The curse of the zombie redactions revisited

Did you read the note? If not, don’t complain that you’re lost. Anyway, as I observed last week, “A zombie redaction is a redaction in copy X of a document which has already been released in copy Y of the same document, tucked away in some other file or folder or microfilm reel.”…

Redactions in CIA records: December 2022

As NARA’s press release informs us, after the December 2022 redaction releases, fewer than 4,400 records have “Section 5” redactions left in them. Good to know, but where and what are these redactions? What are the justifications for continuing to hold back the information the little rectangular boxes conceal?

There is now some new documentation for the curious, as mandated by President Biden’s 2021 memo, and posted at NARA.…