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Scope: This research tool indexes 37,141 records - a curated subset of the ~300,000 documents in the JFK Assassination Records Collection. Releases indexed: 2017-2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025. 2,165 records have full-text OCR indexed - of those, 2,162 are sourced from the 2025 re-release (NARA has not yet published an XLSX manifest for 2025; each document’s prior-release history is shown on its page). Releases not yet indexed: 2026. Methodology

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CIA|January 31, 1973|PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT|NAID 104-10063-10152

SourceCIATextOCR availableRecordNAID 104-10063-10152

RADICAL ACTIVITIES

CIA · From: WITHHELD · To: HEADQUARTERS · JFK10 : F2 : 1993.07.13.07:14:40:810140 : TWO COPIES. 1 COPY IS MARKED "DUP OF 7115". · Release: Redact

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CIA / PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Department of State|June 1, 1975|PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT|NAID 178-10004-10420

SourceDepartment of StateTextOCR availableRecordNAID 178-10004-10420

INVENTORY OF ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION FILES

… an 71 SECRET 8. Memo for Record - 25 Jan 71 meeting in CI Staff - 4 Feb 71 SECRET 9. Case Summary - Foreign Involvement in US Radical Activities 31 May 73 SECRET ) 10. Memo for Chiefs, All Field Offices - Case 52722 - SECRET CONFIDES HAL entie Photocopy from G R For …

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Department of State / PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Senate|April 1, 1974|PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT|NAID 157-10011-10121

SourceSenateTextOCR availableRecordNAID 157-10011-10121

REPORT

and radical activities and apparently cannot be touched by police. Chief, SRS felt that this had possibilities of a serious article. 4. Writer obt …

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