The Mary Ferrell Foundation has posted a new overview of releases and redactions in the JFK Assassination Records Collection (JFKARC) as of 2025. As always, author Rex Bradford is well worth reading. I will have a response to Rex’s article in a few days.…
Heads up! More FBI docs have been added to the Mary Ferrell Foundation collection. These docs were previously unavailable online. They date from early in the investigation and offer much interesting detail and atmosphere, well worth a look!
The new additions to the MFF collection are from FBI casefile 89-43, compiled by the FBI’s Dallas field office.…
More ARC docs are up on the MFF website, straight from the vaults of the AARC. The latest additions: over 160 CIA records, including some very interesting docs on Cuban matters.
The new docs at MFF are in two sets: 84 records from CIA’s Latin American Division (JFK-Work Files), and 85 miscellaneous records, mostly from the hard copy JFK records in the HSCA-CIA segregated collection, as well as three docs from the HSCA-CIA staff records, and a handful from the CIA microfilm docs.…
The Mary Ferrell Foundation continues to dig out ARC records from its vaults. The latest find is a box of HSCA docs which fill some gaps and add a deposition from Bruce Solie.
This set of docs comes from several boxes in the HSCA-CIA segregated collection. Like the recent release of several sections of the HSCA-FBI liaison file, the box sat uncatalogued in the AARC vaults for who knows how long, but MFF is finally digging this stuff out and putting it on line.…
The Mary Ferrell Foundation continues to dig out ARC records from its vaults. The latest find is a box of folders from the FBI-HSCA liaison file.
FBI file 62-117290 is a massive compilation of docs requested by the HSCA during the course of its inquiry, plus various and sundry administrative docs.…
This note begins an introduction to the main FBI files in the JFK Assassination Records Collection. FBI records make up about 46 percent of the ARC. The next largest contributor to the Collection, the CIA, makes up only about 27 percent. FBI records are thus by far the largest component of the ARC, and well worth a careful look.…
This note discusses how I was able to put together again virtually all of a lengthy CIA file using both the latest releases from the ARC and bits and scraps of an ancient file from 1993.
The file I am discussing in this note is the CIA Office of Security file for J Walton Moore, who for many years was the head of CIA’s field office in Dallas, including the period when Lee Oswald was a Dallas resident.…
I’ve been very busy with other projects recently, so there’s been a long silence on this blog. Having a few free hours this weekend, however, I’m putting up a note on some of the work I did this summer.
This note might interest people who are curious about which CIA records are available online, or who are looking for Garrison files in the ARC.…
That was fast.
The December 2022 releases in the ARC are up at the Mary Ferrell Foundation website. These will be OCR’d and integrated into the superb MFF document database, substantially enhancing their research value. Big thanks from researchers everywhere to Rex Bradford, head guru of the MFF.
As a bonus, Rex also has a long note up on what’s in and out of the new releases.…
Judge John Tunheim served as chair of the Assassination Records Review Board from 1994 to 1998, and together with the other four Board members, deserves much credit for the important accomplishments of the Board, the greatest of which was the successful creation of the massive JFK Assassination Records Collection (JFKARC or ARC), a most valuable contribution to the history of both the JFK assassination and to the historiography of the cold war as a whole.…