CIA removed JFK assassination files from Tulsi Gabbard’s office, lawmakers demand answers

Forty boxes of classified files related to President Kennedy’s assassination and the CIA’s secretive MKUltra mind-control program have gone missing from the government’s declassification pipeline — and no one in Congress seems to know why.

Two Republican lawmakers, Reps. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida and Eric Burlison of Missouri, traveled to CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia, on Thursday to demand answers after learning the agency had quietly removed the boxes from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office sometime last year.

The files were being processed for public release when they disappeared.

“We are going to try to dig more,” Ms. Luna told The Washington Times.

Ms. Luna said lawmakers have received “conflicting information” about at least 11 of the boxes, and the CIA offered no explanation that satisfied them.

Mr. Burlison said the visit was meant “to deliver a message” — the CIA must disclose all files declassified by President Trump.

“We expect to be able to see all of the files for JFK and MKUltra,” Mr. Burlison said.

The House Oversight Committee has ordered the CIA to preserve the documents.

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