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President Donald Trump announced in January that he would be releasing classified documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On Monday, the FBI announced it had discovered about 2,400 new records – 14,000 pages – related to JFK’s murder after a new search uncovered files that “were previously unrecognized.”
“The search resulted in approximately 2,400 newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file,” the FBI said in a statement. According to Axios, the newly-discovered JFK assassination files “were never provided to a board tasked with reviewing and disclosing the documents.”
In 2017, then-President Donald Trump announced that he would allow the release of more than 3,000 classified JFK files. 2,891 previously unreleased government documents regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were then released a few weeks later.
Not much new came from those documents other than the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) claiming that it had investigated itself and said that it had no connection to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A shocking result to be sure.
However, in 2021, R. James Woolsey, who served as the Director of the CIA from 1993 to 1995, described in his book how the John F. Kennedy assassination was ordered by the Soviet Union. That revelation was also met with an audible yawn by the general public. That story was followed by more claims regarding Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and even Woody Harrelson’s dad, who all supposedly had ties to JFK.
Now, Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna will be leading a new task force called the “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets,” which will be focusing on the declassification of records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Also included in the task force’s duties will be the examination of the client list of Jeffrey Epstein, files relating to Sept. 11, 2001, COVID-19 origins, UFOs and more, Fox News reports.
“Rep. Luna is committed to shining a light on the truth and ending the era of secrecy,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said. “It’s time to let the sunlight in and finally provide answers the American public has long demanded.”