🗂️ Declassified
Newly released government records from official archives, national and international, with short summaries we check against each document.
- National Archives releases previously withheld JFK assassination records
Summary (written by Banana News from the document - read the original): On March 18, 2025, following a presidential directive of March 17, 2025, the National Archives released all records in the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection that had been withheld for classification. Files were posted in several batches, the latest listed on January 30, 2026. The Archives notes the records were released without redactions and some contain personal information of living people.
Read the original at U.S. National Archives ↗ - Previously-Classified President John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection Records Now Released
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Read the original at Office of the Director of National Intelligence ↗ - Pentagon Papers: complete Vietnam Task Force report
Summary (written by Banana News from the document - read the original): The report, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force," was commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in 1967. On the 40th anniversary of the 1971 press leak, the National Archives and the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon libraries released the complete report: 48 boxes and about 7,000 declassified pages, about 34% of it available for the first time.
Read the original at U.S. National Archives ↗ - CIA releases materials prepared for Nixon's 1972 trip to China
Summary (written by Banana News from the document - read the original): A small collection marking the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's February 1972 trip to the People's Republic of China. It holds three city guides, an atlas and four leadership profiles, part of what the CIA prepared for Nixon and national security adviser Henry Kissinger before the seven-day visit.
Read the original at CIA FOIA Reading Room ↗ - The Nixon Collection
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Read the original at CIA FOIA Reading Room ↗
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