Will Trump Really Release the Long-Secret JFK Assassination-Related Records?
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Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order “ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy [and] Reverend Martin Luther King.” In signing the order, Trump declared, “That’s a big one. A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed.”
Trump’s executive order hit the wire services and was reported widely by the mainstream press. The order also created a big buzz across the Internet.
Will those long-secret JFK assassination-related records really be finally released to the public?
Color me … skeptical, extremely skeptical.
Why I am skeptical? Because I don’t believe for a moment that the CIA is going to permit Trump to release those records.
Let’s not forget: The CIA has been fighting fiercely for more than 60 years to keep its assassination-related records secret. They fought fiercely to keep them secret during the Warren Commission hearings in 1964, during the House Select Committee on Assassinations hearings in the 1970s, during the term of the Assassination Records Review Boq4 in the 1990s, during Trump’s first term as president, and during Biden’s term as president. They fought a several-years legal battle against former Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley to keep their George Joannides records secret. Indeed, they are still fighting to keep their long-secret JFK assassination-related records secret in a pending lawsuit in a U.S. District Court in California.
So, given the ferocity that the CIA has displayed in keeping its assassination-related records secret for more than six decades, what are the chances that the CIA will buckle and permit Trump to get away with disclosing these records to the American people? I say the chances of that happening are slim or nil. I think it’s much more likely that the CIA will make Trump an offer he can’t refuse and that Trump will end up releasing “some” or “many” or “most” — but not “all” of the records, which would, of course, enable the CIA to continue keeping the incriminating records secret.
Now, granted, I could be proven wrong. Trump might really follow through this time. And I would be very happy to be proven wrong. We’ll see.
Consider the following headlines in the mainstream press:
“Trump Says He’ll OK Release of Final Batch of JFK Assassination Files” (Voice
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