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House declassification task force grills agencies over JFK files, NARA privacy breach
Summary
The House Task Force on Declassification heard testimony from researchers, a filmmaker and privacy experts on recently released JFK records, pressing for missing CIA files while also faulting the National Archivesfor a rushed rollout that exposed Social Security numbers and other private data.
The House Task Force on Declassification convened for a public hearing focused on the recent release of documents from the John F. Kennedy assassination records collection and the process by which those records were posted to the public record.
Chairwoman Luna opened the hearing by saying, "The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 remains one of the most defining and haunting events in our nation's history," and framed the panel's work as an effort to press federal agencies for greater transparency.
The hearing centered on two linked threads: new substantive claims from researchers that previously classified CIA materials show troubling omissions and possible misconduct in the handling of Lee Harvey Oswald-related files, and urgent privacy and process concerns after a large-scale document release that included personally identifying information.
Jefferson Morley, identified in the hearing as a researcher and editor of JFK-related archives, told the task force that newly declassified files change the fact pattern about what the CIA knew regarding Lee Harvey Oswald. "We know now what they knew about Oswald and when they knew it," Morley testified, and he urged the task force…
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