The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced that it has discovered 2,400 new documents related to the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify several documents after taking office, writes AP.
The FBI said it is working to transfer the documents to the National Archives and Records Administration for declassification.
In the early 1990s, the federal government decided that all documents related to the assassination of November 22, 1963, should be stored in the National Archives as a single collection. Although the vast majority of the collection (more than 5 million pages) has already been made public, researchers estimate that 3,000 documents remain partially or entirely unknown.
The FBI did not specify in its statement the nature of the information in the newly discovered documents.
Jefferson Morley, vice president of the Mary Farrelly Foundation, which preserves the collection of documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, called the FBI’s move “unusually candid.”
