This is my fifth post on NBR records in the JFK Assassination Records Collection. (See here for a general introduction to records designated NBR “not believed relevant”). The “OP” files is the largest set of NBR files discussed so far, and received much attention immediately following the 2017-2018 ARC releases. As it turned out, this attention was based in part on a misunderstanding.…
Category Archives: NBR records
NBR files in the ARC, part 4: The Cuban Revolutionary Council
This is my fourth post on NBR records in the JFK Assassination Records Collection. (See here for a general introduction to records designated NBR “not believed relevant”).
The CRC financial records
The documents I discuss in this post are financial records of the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC). The CRC was “an umbrella group of anti-Castro groups formed with the support of the U.S.…
NBR files in the ARC, part 3: Yuri Nosenko
[First posted on June 24, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This post continues looking at CIA records in the ARC designated “not believed relevant” (NBR). The records covered in this post relate to the KGB defector Yuri Nosenko.
Who was Yuri Nosenko?
Yuri Nosenko (1927-2008) was a KGB officer who defected to the United States in 1964.…
NBR files in the ARC, part 2: The ARRB memos
[First posted on May 14, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This is Part 2 of a series of posts I am doing on CIA records in the ARC which were designated “not believed relevant” (NBR). This post corrects the NBR count for CIA documents given in Part I, examines the release history of these NBR documents, and begins a discussion of ARRB memos on groups of NBR records.…
NBR files in the ARC, part 1: “Not Believed Relevant”
[First posted on May 5, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org. This is a revised version of the original post!]
This post discusses a set of records in the ARC which were withheld in full until the 2017-2018 releases. These records received much attention, but their signficance for the JFK assassination is actually quite questionable.…