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On March 19, the National Security Archives of the US George Washington University (NSA-GWU), while interpreting the documents released by the US National Archives, said that most of these documents were already released earlier with redactions to protect intelligence operations and the method of operations during “covert operations”. It said that this was the first time such uncensored documents were being released and is likely to cause some amount of damage to the secret organisation.

Although the ‘Kennedy assassination case’ papers released under orders of President Donald Trump did not reveal anything sensational, intelligence historians and RTI activists have discovered some peripheral facts on the functioning of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) at that time. 

The US National Archives released 2,182 records (63,400 pages) in two tranches on March 18 and said that more would be released as soon as they are digitised. The records show how overwhelming the presence of the CIA was in diplomatic missions, reminding the late US Senator Patrick Moynihan’s warning in 1998. 

Moynihan had quoted Merle Miller, biographer of President Harry Truman who created the CIA, that the president had set up the CIA only to help him “looking through a bunch of papers two feet........

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