US President Donald Trump is planning to block the release of information from thousands of classified documents related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in November 1963, according a new report.
Trump administration and other government officials would not identify what specific information regarding Kennedy’s murder might be kept secret on Trump’s orders, Politico Magazine reported on Friday.
More than 3,000 assassination-related documents related to the JFK assassination are scheduled to be made public in less than a week by the National Archives.
JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 states that the federal government must release them by Oct. 26, 2017.
However, the officials told the publication that there were fears over releasing classified documents that were created in the 1990s, saying it could provide important information on recent intelligence and law enforcement operations.
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