Washington D.C., April 18 (ANI): In a significant move toward transparency, U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard announced the public release of previously classified documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), Senator Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK).
This initiative fulfills former President Donald Trump’s commitment to “maximum transparency” and aims to restore trust in America’s intelligence and federal institutions. “Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government’s investigation,” Gabbard said in a statement on Friday.
Gabbard thanked President Trump for entrusting her office with the declassification efforts and expressed gratitude to the Kennedy family for their support. The Office of the DNI noted that the Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) led the digitization and declassification of the RFK and MLK records in collaboration with the National Archives and other agencies.
The first tranche of RFK-related files—approximately 10,000 pages—is now available to the public at archives.gov/rfk. The release includes minimal redactions, limited to sensitive personal identifiers like Social Security and Tax Identification Numbers.
Robert F. Kennedy, then a leading Democratic presidential candidate, was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. His brother, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, during a term marked by Cold War tensions, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the signing of the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
The declassification effort marks a pivotal moment in U.S. history, granting public access to key documents that may shed new light on some of the country’s most significant and tragic political assassinations.
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