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The CIA released an additional 1,450 pages on the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy this week. The pages consist of 54 previously classified documents that are being made available to the public for the first time ever.
“These documents complement the thousands of pages that CIA provided to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as part of their public releases related to former President John F. Kennedy from earlier this year,” the CIA said in a press release.
This latest batch of declassified CIA documents on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination now brings the total to nearly 5,000 pages that have recently been released on the matter. There are now more than 9,600 previously classified pages on the topic available for public viewing.
Among the newly released documents are a psychological profile of Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of killing RFK, as well as his handwritten notes. On one of the notes, Sirhan wrote, “Kennedy must fall.”
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“I am proud to share our work on this incredibly important topic with the American people,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said about the RFK files that were released as part of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14176.
Also included are notes on a a trip that Robert F. Kennedy took with former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to the Soviet Union in 1955. “The records reveal for the first time that Senator Kennedy shared his experiences traveling to the former Soviet Union with CIA, reflecting his patriotic commitment to serving his country,” the CIA said in its statement.
“Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government,” U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said about the declassified documents pertaining to his late father.