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Trump to Release Final JFK Assassination Files
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Date: October 21, 2017 04:08PM
Trump Says He Will Release Final Set of Documents on Kennedy Assassination
By MICHAEL D. SHEAROCT. 21, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump has decided to release a final batch of thousands of classified government documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Mr. Trump announced in a tweet on Saturday morning.
“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” Mr. Trump said on Twitter.
The release of the information being held in secret at the National Archives — including several thousand never-before-seen documents — was mandated to occur by Oct. 26 under a 1992 law that sought to quell conspiracy theories about the assassination.
Mr. Trump has the power to block the release of the documents, and intelligence agencies have pressured him to do so for at least some of them. The agencies are concerned that information contained in some of the documents could damage national security interests.
In a statement to reporters, the White House left open the possibility that Mr. Trump might halt the release of some documents.
“The president believes that these documents should be made available in the interests of full transparency unless agencies provide a compelling and clear national security or law enforcement justification otherwise,” the statement said.
It is not known what revelations might be contained in the unreleased documents, though researchers and authors of books about Kennedy say they do not expect any bombshells that significantly alter the official narrative of the assassination — that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Dallas — delivered in 1964 by the Warren Commission.
But the documents are likely to “help fuel a new generation of conspiracy theories,” according to Philip Shenon, a former New York Times reporter and the author of a book about the commission, and Larry J. Sabato, a University of Virginia professor and author of a book about Kennedy, who wrote a recent article about the documents in Politico.
They wrote that the documents relate to what they call a “mysterious chapter in the history of the assassination — a six-day trip that J.F.K. assassin Lee Harvey Oswald paid to Mexico City several weeks before the president’s murder, in which Oswald met with Cuban and Soviet spies and came under intensive surveillance by the C.I.A.’s Mexico City station. Previously released F.B.I. documents suggest that Oswald spoke openly in Mexico about his intention to kill Kennedy.”
With the Oct. 26 deadline to release the remaining documents fast approaching, Mr. Trump had been under increasing pressure from advocates of transparency not to hold back any of the documents from the public on the grounds of national security.
By MICHAEL D. SHEAROCT. 21, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump has decided to release a final batch of thousands of classified government documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Mr. Trump announced in a tweet on Saturday morning.
“Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened,” Mr. Trump said on Twitter.
The release of the information being held in secret at the National Archives — including several thousand never-before-seen documents — was mandated to occur by Oct. 26 under a 1992 law that sought to quell conspiracy theories about the assassination.
Mr. Trump has the power to block the release of the documents, and intelligence agencies have pressured him to do so for at least some of them. The agencies are concerned that information contained in some of the documents could damage national security interests.
In a statement to reporters, the White House left open the possibility that Mr. Trump might halt the release of some documents.
“The president believes that these documents should be made available in the interests of full transparency unless agencies provide a compelling and clear national security or law enforcement justification otherwise,” the statement said.
It is not known what revelations might be contained in the unreleased documents, though researchers and authors of books about Kennedy say they do not expect any bombshells that significantly alter the official narrative of the assassination — that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Dallas — delivered in 1964 by the Warren Commission.
But the documents are likely to “help fuel a new generation of conspiracy theories,” according to Philip Shenon, a former New York Times reporter and the author of a book about the commission, and Larry J. Sabato, a University of Virginia professor and author of a book about Kennedy, who wrote a recent article about the documents in Politico.
They wrote that the documents relate to what they call a “mysterious chapter in the history of the assassination — a six-day trip that J.F.K. assassin Lee Harvey Oswald paid to Mexico City several weeks before the president’s murder, in which Oswald met with Cuban and Soviet spies and came under intensive surveillance by the C.I.A.’s Mexico City station. Previously released F.B.I. documents suggest that Oswald spoke openly in Mexico about his intention to kill Kennedy.”
With the Oct. 26 deadline to release the remaining documents fast approaching, Mr. Trump had been under increasing pressure from advocates of transparency not to hold back any of the documents from the public on the grounds of national security.
Re: Trump to Release Final JFK Assassination Files
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Date: October 21, 2017 04:21PM
The Soviets did it. This is the worst kept secret, especially in the intel community. The Politburo was furious over the fact that a Boston Brahman such as Kennedy, who in their view had 0 political acumen could foil their plans for world domination. The Vietnam War would have been won if Kennedy would have lived on.
Re: Trump to Release Final JFK Assassination Files
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Zvezda 5
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Date: October 21, 2017 04:24PM
fdklsrf Wrote:
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> The Soviets did it. This is the worst kept secret,
> especially in the intel community. The Politburo
> was furious over the fact that a Boston Brahman
> such as Kennedy, who in their view had 0 political
> acumen could foil their plans for world
> domination. The Vietnam War would have been won if
> Kennedy would have lived on.
Fun fact; Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist, and a vocal one at that. While in the Marines, his commanding officer and fellow marines nicknamed him "Oswaldski" because of his political views. He even recieved asylum in the USSR and lived there for a time before coming back to the states. It's plausible that someone from the KGB could have tapped him to carry out the assassination.
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> The Soviets did it. This is the worst kept secret,
> especially in the intel community. The Politburo
> was furious over the fact that a Boston Brahman
> such as Kennedy, who in their view had 0 political
> acumen could foil their plans for world
> domination. The Vietnam War would have been won if
> Kennedy would have lived on.
Fun fact; Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist, and a vocal one at that. While in the Marines, his commanding officer and fellow marines nicknamed him "Oswaldski" because of his political views. He even recieved asylum in the USSR and lived there for a time before coming back to the states. It's plausible that someone from the KGB could have tapped him to carry out the assassination.