Now that the dust has settled from the JFKARC review, more than one researcher has cast a jaundiced eye on the Transparency Plans (TPs) filed by the five agencies that still want to continue redactions in ARC records.
Why jaundiced? The TPs give both the redactions remaining in the ARC, and the schedule for their release, and that schedule is not nearly fast enough for researchers’ tastes.…
This note looks at a critique of the current state of the ARC, written by Rex Bradford, president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation (MFF). The critique is online here. The MFF website which Bradford heads is the foremost source for JFK ARC documents. His note is therefore worth a careful reading.…
On 24 August 2023, an additional 21 records from the JFK Assassination Records Collection were posted at NARA. This is the sixth set of ARC records posted at NARA this year. This posting will probably interest few researchers, but it did release some new text. Which records and what text?…
So says a June 30 memo released by the White House on Friday.
The memo thus officially ends the review process begun in October 2021. As a result of the review, President Biden writes in the memo, “With my final certification made in this memorandum -– the last required under the Act -– and definitive plans for future disclosures, my Administration is fulfilling the promise of transparency to the American people.”…
[Corrected and revised on 6/30]
On 27 June 2023, 1103 records from the JFK Assassination Records Collection were posted at NARA. This is the fifth set of records posted at NARA this year. How many of the records in this latest set released previously withheld information? Is there still material withheld in these 1103 records?…
This note collects a few miscellaneous facts about redactions in the ARC, on the eve of what may be the last release for a while. As this note will show, due to the depleted store of redactions, the coming final June release cannot compare with the last big release in December 2022, much less the 2017-2018 releases.…
The fourth set of releases from the JFK ARC for 2023 is now up at NARA. On June 13, 2023, redactions were released in 290 records from the JFK collection. This follows the release of redactions in 1279 records during April and May of 2023. For those keeping count, 1569 records have been released in full this year.…
Releases continue from the JFK ARC at NARA. On May 11, 2023, redactons were released in 502 records from the JFK collection. This follows the release of redactions in 777 records during April 2023. That makes 1279 records released in full since the last big document dump in December 2022.…
April 27 saw the release of redactions from 355 more records in the JFK ARC. This is on top of redactions released from 422 records on April 12. All 777 records with April releases are now released in full. This note takes a look at the 4/27 releases: where are they from and what kind of information has been released.…
This note takes a look at who is releasing redactions left in the JFK Assassination Records Collection, and how many redactions are left. It’s not who you thought, and there are not many, it turns out.
Most of my notes on the December 2022 releases in the JFK ARC at NARA have dealt with CIA records.…