New Cuban Missile Crisis documents to be released

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Wednesday, 10.10.12
New Cuban Missile Crisis documents to be released

More than 2,700 pages of documents from the Robert F. Kennedy Papers will be made public Thursday. Most deal with the U.S. relationship with Cuba from 1961 to 1963 — the era of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

By MIMI WHITEFIELD

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As the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis approaches, an additional seven boxes of material from the Robert F. Kennedy Papers, including documents from the autumn that took the U.S. to the brink of nuclear war, will be released Thursday morning.

More than 2,700 pages of documents, which are housed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, will be released online at 8:30 a.m. at www.jfklibrary.org and also will be available in the Research Room of the library.

The documents, which are being released by the National Archives and Records Administration and the Kennedy Library, include those that relate to Robert F. Kennedy in his capacity as attorney general as well as his role as advisor to his brother, President Kennedy.

They include memos, correspondence, reports, notes from Executive Committee meetings and CIA and State Department telegrams and cables — most dealing with the U.S. relationship with Cuba from 1961 to 1963. Those tumultuous years included the Cuban Missile Crisis as well as the Bay of Pigs Invasion.


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[MADem]

1. Can't wait to have a look at these--something to do this weekend. nt

[JackRiddler]

2. The national security state is such a joke.

It takes fifty years to get little bits of your own history. You never know what the real story of the immediate past is, but you think you live in a democracy.

[triplepoint]

3. Thankfully, We STILL Have Wikileaks...

Otherwise, we're doomed to being afflicted with Chomsky's "Manufactured Consent" syndrome.

[JohnyCanuck]

4. So then what's so hard about releasing 50 year old classified documents about the JFK assassination?

Is the Government Holding Back Crucial Documents?
By Russ Baker on May 30, 2012


Next year will be a half-century since the death of JFK. And the Obama Administration thinks we need to keep secret the records on the matter….a little longer yet.

Believe it or not, more than 50,000 pages of JFK assassination-related documents are being withheld in full. And an untold number of documents have been partially withheld, or released with everything interesting blacked out. But why?

Since the government and the big media keep telling us there was no conspiracy, and that it was all Lee Harvey Oswald acting on his own, why continue to keep the wraps on?


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But by 2011, Kurtz, who had been at NARA for decades, had retired. At the 2011 forum, Jim Lesar was told that JFK assassination records are not part of the declassification process. Hence, they will not be reviewed for release.

http://whowhatwhy.com/2012/05/30/is-the-government-holding-back-crucial-documents/