US media: Kennedy assassination records leak personal inform

On the 18th local time, the National Archives of the United States released records of the Kennedy assassination. According to reports from The New York Times and USA Today on the 20th, the aforementioned documents leaked personal information of hundreds of former congressional staff, intelligence researchers, and an ambassador. The New York Times quoted a national security lawyer as saying, 'This is a shocking leak.'. ​

The New York Times reported that an anonymous source revealed that government officials knew before the release of the aforementioned documents that publishing them without editing would reveal some personal information. In addition, White House officials admitted on the 20th that they only began to carefully examine these documents after they were made public to search for exposed details. A senior government official revealed that on the 19th, the White House ordered a careful examination of these publicly available documents, searched for leaked personal information, and instructed relevant departments to provide assistance to affected individuals. ​

The report mentioned that White House Press Secretary Levitt said in an email, "At the request of the White House, the National Archives and Social Security Administration immediately developed an action plan to actively assist individuals whose personal information was leaked

On January 23 this year, Trump signed an executive order requiring relevant departments to declassify all remaining files related to the assassination of Kennedy and African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. On March 17th, Trump announced that he would release 80000 pages of unedited documents related to the Kennedy assassination on March 18th. However, the National Archives of the United States released the above-mentioned documents in two batches on the evening of the 18th, with a total of only 2182 copies and 63400 pages. ​

On the same day that the document was released on the 18th, some American media reported that the National Security Division of the US Department of Justice had been busy all night to fulfill the promise made by US President Trump. ABC reported that in an email sent before 17:00 Eastern Time on the 17th, a senior official from the US Department of Justice stated that although the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the Department of Justice has conducted a "preliminary declassification review" of these files, "all" prosecutors in the operations department must assist in reviewing this "National Security Agency emergency project". ABC  According to sources, prosecutors from the National Security Department were "busy all night", each reading hundreds of pages of documents, and only prosecutors who were about to participate in arrest work or had other urgent tasks did not need to participate in this work.