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JFK Research Center

A research reading room for records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, drawn from the U.S. National Archives Catalog.

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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|PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT|NAID 104-10177-10087

SourceCIATextMetadata onlyRecordNAID 104-10177-10087

VIEW POSSIBILITY CHOADEN, ENCOUNTERING DIFFICULTIES ON ARRIVAL.

… THALS OPERATIONAL MMEDIATE Do Not Reproduce Background Use Only RETURN TO CIA HAVA REF: DIR 41198 (CUT 88657). 38911 いっち 41249 1. VIEW POSSIBILITY CHOADEN ENCOUNTERING DIFFICULTIES ON ARRIVAL REQUEST FOLLOWING ACTION: A. ARRANGE LIGHT SURVEILLANCE AT AIRPORT. B. INSPECT CHOADEN RESIDENCE FOR TECH SURVEILLANCE WHICH MAY …

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Low confidenceCurated metadataCIAPaper - Textual DocumentRelease 2021