Trump releases 2,800 JFK files, holds back some 'sensitive' records

October 27, 2017 08:13

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the unveiling of 2,800 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy but yielded to pressure from the FBI and CIA to block the release of some information to be reviewed further.

Trump had confirmed on Saturday that he would allow for the opening of the documents, "subject to the receipt of further information."

In 1992, the Congress had ordered that all records relating to the investigation into Kennedy's death should be open to the public, and set a final deadline of October 26, 2017, for the entire set to be made public.

The White House said later that the remaining records would be released "on a rolling basis in the coming weeks."

"I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted," Trump wrote in a memo announcing the delay Thursday evening.

"At the same time, executive departments and agencies have proposed to me that certain information should continue to be redacted because of national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns," he wrote. "I have no choice today but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our Nation's security."

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