The FBI, the Federal United States Investigations Agency, discovered about 2,400 new records related to President John F. Kennedy’s murder in a new search after an executive order of Donald Trump.
The agency stated in a statement on Monday (11) that he made a new search for records after the January 23 executive order, which determined the release of more documents related to JFK murders, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
“The search resulted in approximately 2,400 newly enclosed and digitized records that were not previously recognized as related to the file of JFK’s murder,” the FBI said in a statement.
Axios first reported the discovery. The statement does not provide additional information about what records say.
Since 2020, the FBI has started collecting files closed from the agency’s field offices across the country to be stored in its “central registration complex” in Virginia.
The FBI stressed that it can now search and find records faster as a result of the “broader” and “technological advances in automation” inventory of its record maintenance processes.
The agency also pointed out that it is working to deliver the documents to the National Archives and Records Administration – a body that protects and documents government and historical records – to be included in the “disqualification process [retirada de sigilo] in progress”.
During Trump’s first term, the US government released more than 2,800 JFK murder records to comply with a 1992 law that required the disclosure of documents.
About 300 files, however, were placed under confidentiality for concern for US national security, law application and foreign relations. Another disclosure of documents occurred in 2018.
In 2023, the Biden government said the National Archives completed its revision of the confidential documents of JFK murder, with 99% of records having been publicly disclosed.
Trump promised during the 2024 campaign to reveal all documents related to the murder of the president, which has been the subject of various conspiracy theories.
Kennedy was shot and killed on November 22, 1963, while walking in a convertible limo opened by downtown Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged with Kennedy’s murder but was killed before he could be tried.
*Alejandra Jaramillo and Kevin Liptak, from CNN, contributed to this report
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