| Summary/Abstract |
The 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy (JFK)'s assassination passed in November 2013, but the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) still refuses to declassify numerous documents related to major events of his presidency. How many individuals have unsuccessfully requested declassification of JFK-era papers in the past decade is unknown, but a few scholars have publicized the existence of particular documents that, despite their Freedom of Information (FOIA) or Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) requests, are still being kept secret. Among the unsuccessful have been efforts of the National Security Archive to get the CIA to declassify a major document relating to the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs operation in Cuba. I have an indirect relationship with that document and the related declassification I have pursued unsuccessfully for the past nine years. Most of them describe congressional testimony by CIA leaders about Agency operations in the 1961–1963 timeframe in various locales, including Cuba and Vietnam.
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