The FBI has uncovered 2,400 new records about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination following President Trump’s order to release the secret files, according to reports.
Those documents contain about 14,000 pages worth of material that a disclosure board was supposed to review but never saw, Axios reported Monday.
The White House learned about the never-before-reviewed documents on Friday as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence presented its plan to disclose the remaining documents.
“This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously,” said Jefferson Morley, the vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which has the largest online record of JFK assassination records.
“The FBI is finally saying, ‘Let’s respond to the president’s order,’ instead of keeping the secrecy going,” he added.
Exactly what is in the newly discovered documents remains secret at least for now.
Trump ordered the release of all files from Kennedy’s 1963 assassination — which has been mired in decades-long conspiracy theories.
But experts have cautioned that the final release of documents is unlikely to reveal whether the official story – that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing Kennedy – is true, or that conspiracy theories suggesting he was aided by shadowy government or criminal entities have any merit.
The 1992 JFK Records Act mandated that all documents related to the assassination and investigation into it were to be handed over to an official JFK Assassination Records Review Board and the National Archives, which would then be disclosed in full by 2017.
Trump blocked the full disclosure during his first term on the advice of the CIA, but reportedly regretted the decision.
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A partial records release happened under Biden, but no new revelations came out of it.
“Everything will be revealed,” Trump said on Jan. 23 while signing the latest release order, which also requested all records related to Robert F. Kennedy and the Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations be released.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – who has been nominated as Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services – believes both his father’s and uncle’s murders were part of greater conspiracies.
All documents are expected to be released by March 9, according to Trump’s order.
But some sources told Axios that the documents are still being subjected to heavy redaction recommendations — which Trump would not be pleased with.
“This is total deep state bulls**t,” one said.
