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The Trump administration published thousands of files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday who, according to him, was previously classified.
Many files related to JFK assassination have already been disclosed, including a tranche of 13,000 documents published during the Biden administration. However, many of the documents published on Tuesday had been predictive before.
Trump said on Monday that “people have been waiting for decades” to see the 80,000 pages of files related to Kennedy’s assassination. Shortly after taking office, he signed a decree Direct the public release of thousands of files related to the assassinations of Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
The documents were Published on the website National archives Tuesday evening. It can take some time before the researchers who studied the JFK assassination could go through the more than 2,000 newly published documents, which have only been identified by file numbers and no description.
But nothing indicates that the files contain bombs, according to a man who has already seen many folders.
Tom Samoluk was deputy director of the assassination of examination files, a government panel formed in the 1990s to study the files related to the assassination. He and a team of dozens of dozens have re -examined documents of documents for public liberation between 1994 and 1998.
From what he has examined, there is nothing to change the current conclusion of the Kennedy assassination: a alone shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, was responsible for his death.
“The collection of files that we have examined, the vast majority of which were published – some have been classified in whole or in part – if this is what we are talking about, then there is no firearm,” he told CNN in a telephone interview.
“If there had been something that had been cut at the heart of the assassination, the examination committee would have published it in the mid-90s. There is therefore a feeling of what the files are,” he continued.
The director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a statement that the files contain “around 80,000 pages of previously classified files which will be published without overhaul”.
There are additional documents, she said, which are “retained by the court of the court or for the secrecy of the grand jury, and the files subject to article 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, must be not sealed before the release”.
The national archives work with the Ministry of Justice to accelerate the non-establishment of these files, she added.
Larry Sabato, political scientist at the University of Virginia who wrote “The Kennedy half -century: the presidency, the assassination and the lasting inheritance of John F. Kennedy”, said Tuesday evening “Laura Coates Live” of CNN that her initial examination of the files found “interesting nuggets” on the activities of the CIA – as well as certain files that were not reduced, The CIA administration would not be noted.
While the new details shed light on the American Spycrates during the Cold War, Sabato had warned before the press release that the public could be disappointed with the lack of revelations on the assassination.
Kennedy’s assassination has long fueled conspiracy theories, some of which have given themselves. This explains why the examination committee that Samoluk has helped to direct was created – to assess whether files related to the assassination could be made public.
Samoluk admitted that he had not seen all the records that could potentially be published.
For example, last month, the FBI said that it had discovered 2,400 new records Linked to the JFK assassination of a new search for files following Trump’s decree.
There could also be other files in additional agencies that have not been published either, said Samoluk, which would constitute a new bucket of documents previously invisible by his committee.
And he said that there could still be points of interest in the remaining files that would help to fill the gaps in existing knowledge, including CIA information linked to Oswald’s movements before the assassination of November 22, 1963.
In 2023, the national archives concluded its examination of classified documents linked to the assassination, with 99% of records Having been made public, CNN previously reported.
President Joe Biden Then, a memo certifying that the archivist had completed the exam and claimed that the remaining documents authorized to be declassified had been released to the public – respecting a deadline previously fixed.
Despite the previous promises of the Presidents, including Trump, to publish these files, the CIA, the Pentagon and the State Department have always had documents that they have refused to publish. The justification of these remaining documents classified comes far from efforts to protect identity confidential sources that are still alive or that could be alive, and protection of methods.
During Trump’s first term, he agreed not to disclose the full set of files related to the assassination of Kennedy at the request of national security agencies. But Trump on the 2024 campaign campaign said that he would release the remaining documents.
Fixed: This article has been updated to reflect the correct spelling named after Tom Samoluk.