Last Of JFK Assassination Files Scheduled For Release

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Thousands of documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are to be released by the US government in 2017 thanks to the efforts of Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director Oliver Stone.

Oliver Stone’s 1991 conspiracy movie JFK and the 25th anniversary of the 1992 JFK Records Act have set the scene for the release of 3,000 never-seen-before documents, and 34,000 previously redacted files into the public domain.

The files should shed light on the role of the CIA and its relationship with alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald who was himself assassinated before explaining his alleged murder of America’s 35th and brightest president.

Sputnik reports:

In 1991, Oliver Stone’s film “JFK” renewed public interest in a probable conspiracy surrounding the events leading to the November 22, 1963 assassination. The massive surge in interest lead to the passage of the 1992 JFK Records Act, which gave the government 25 years to release all documents relating to what happened in Dealey Plaza on that day.

The National Archives annex in Maryland is currently processing, scanning, and preparing for the large trove of files to be released. Many of the files are from the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and are expected to reveal what the CIA may have known about Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the shooting. Also contained in the previously unseen files is “information about the CIA’s station in Mexico City, where Oswald showed up weeks before JFK’s death; 400 pages on E. Howard Hunt, the Watergate burglary conspirator who said on his deathbed that he had prior knowledge of the assassination; and testimony from the CIA’s James Angleton, who oversaw intelligence on Oswald,” Time Magazine reports.

“The records that are out there are going to fill out this picture,” Jefferson Morley, an author who has spent decades researching the JFK assassination, told the magazine.

There are hopes that the files will provide information on George Joannides, a CIA officer who had been involved with an anti-Castro organization whose members fought with Oswald in New Orleans months before the assassination.

According to the Act, if an agency seeks to withhold any documents scheduled for release, they must appeal directly to the President.

“We’re at the final chapter of JFK disclosure,” Morley says. “Sometimes I think we’re going to win. Sometimes I think it’s a fool’s errand. But we’re going to find out.”

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