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What the JFK File Dump Actually Revealed (nothing of interest) (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Parenthetical added because of clickbait hed. Basically, the writer, who's working on a book about JFK, finds this to be a nothingburger.

In many cases, the removed redactions reveal proper nouns that a reader could have easily inferred before or that seem totally inconsequential. For instance, there is a 1974 memo about the Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt’s history with the CIA. A previously released version of the document mentions that the Office of Finance had asked a CIA station whether Hunt had received payments from it while he was living in Madrid. We did not know which station had been asked. Now we know it was the Madrid station. (Wow!) A 1977 document about the New York Times reporter Tad Szulc includes a rumor about Szulc being a Communist; in previous versions of the document, this information was “apparently from a [REDACTED] source.” With the redaction removed, we now know that it was “apparently from a British source.”

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing of interest?

It reveals that the Hungarian Revolution (the one the Soviet Union suppressed) was funded by the CIA.

It stated that the American Federation of Labor had a high-ranking informant who sent frequent reports to the Agency.

And that's just the beginning, really

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Neither germane to the JFK assassination nor mentioned in the article. If you've a source for what's actually interesting, feel free to make a new post.