"In summary, and based on the above information, it is concluded that the letter was transmitted via normal Swedish postal channels. The letter is probably a "crank letter", most likely written by a Swede, using a Swedish-keyboard typewriter and Swedish stationary."
It’s amazing that in the scene in JFK he talked about how (I don’t remember the scene exactly) presidential records on the JFK assassination would be sealed until the 2030s, and how excited he was that his grandchildren would be able to read it.
And even with all that pushback it’s still true. They keep releasing 70%, making that last bit of the documents that’s unreleased ever smaller. But there’s always something unreleased!
If they keep holding back documentation on a public event that occured decades ago the truth is certainly awful, along the lines of "Mossad/Shin Bet did it."
If Russia did it the information would have been released by now due to total collapse of diplomatic relations.
Six decades is not such a long time. No matter how boring the truth is about the JFK assassination, some portion of the documents will still reveal tangentially-related state secrets.
The most credible theory at this point seems to be that it was indeed a CIA operation and that George Bush Sr. ran the field ops on it. Too many pieces of evidence don't make any sense if he wasn't involved in the planning and cleanup portion.
Sounds crazy reading the above, but as skeptical as I've been over the years of every theory, this is the closest to the truth based on the evidence that we have.
I wonder if it's along the lines of 30% of the pages have PII on them. something along the lines of "visited ${person} at their home located at ${address}" and they're censoring that portion?
Will be interesting to see what all's been released, but I feel like at this point he (jfk) had so many enemies (Cuba/three letter agencies/mob) that short of someone coming forward with a confession and new solid evidence we'll never know much beyond Oswald.
I do think most likely though that Oswald was just off his rocker.
floxy|3 years ago
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/10...
"In summary, and based on the above information, it is concluded that the letter was transmitted via normal Swedish postal channels. The letter is probably a "crank letter", most likely written by a Swede, using a Swedish-keyboard typewriter and Swedish stationary."
psychphysic|3 years ago
The mere thought of this kind of bureaucracy requiring this lengthy reply to a nonsense letter worries me.
kranke155|3 years ago
And even with all that pushback it’s still true. They keep releasing 70%, making that last bit of the documents that’s unreleased ever smaller. But there’s always something unreleased!
psychphysic|3 years ago
Surely all the juicy stuff is held back.
orangepurple|3 years ago
If Russia did it the information would have been released by now due to total collapse of diplomatic relations.
thomassmith65|3 years ago
yucky|3 years ago
Sounds crazy reading the above, but as skeptical as I've been over the years of every theory, this is the closest to the truth based on the evidence that we have.
themodelplumber|3 years ago
Some interesting stuff in there, just from browsing the overview .XLSX file.
tareqak|3 years ago
What about the remaining percentage? Why is that not being released?
ender341341|3 years ago
Will be interesting to see what all's been released, but I feel like at this point he (jfk) had so many enemies (Cuba/three letter agencies/mob) that short of someone coming forward with a confession and new solid evidence we'll never know much beyond Oswald.
I do think most likely though that Oswald was just off his rocker.
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF|3 years ago
Is this the new "70% of the time it works every time"? (I get that "in full" means "not redacted" but it's still a funny juxtaposition of words.)
refurb|3 years ago