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Offline Lance Payette

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JFKA records: just a bit of perspective
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Just a bit of perspective, conspiracy fans:

The CIA was still declassifying World War I - World War ONE - documents in 2011: https://fas.org/publication/cia_wwi/

Many, many documents were declassified 50, 60 and 70 years after the end of WWI.

The same is true of documents relating to other historical events that might seem like ancient history to most of us. Millions of pages of World War II records (not all CIA, of course) supposedly remain classified. 29,000 pages were released by the NSA in 2016: https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/1623741/nsa-releases-thousands-of-wwii-era-documents-to-national-archives/

The Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act was passed in 1998, but documents were still trickling out 20 years later.

Any notion that JFK-related records occupy some special niche of secrecy is a fantasy.

More than 20 years of my legal career were spent in-house at completely innocuous state, county and municipal agencies that had very little worth hiding. I don't think I ever dealt with an FOIA-type request where the immediate, knee-jerk response was not "No way!!! How do block them from getting all that, Mr. Lawyer?"

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