For decades, the specifics of a CIA agent's violent career remained hidden behind redacted indexes; the names of the dead from Cubana flight 455 still haunt the gaps in the record.
Families sought evidence of fallen sons while the Church Committee mapped illegal surveillance and the HSCA hunted for missing memos and redacted cables.
Voices of agency employees and substantive MLK investigative details were physically excised from audio recordings to keep closed-door executive sessions hidden from the public.
Lee Harvey Oswald was watched in Mexico City while the CIA scrubbed names from audio tapes and questioned agent Anne Goodpasture’s professional fitness.
CIA agents erased their names from audio recordings and shifted records to a congressional collection to hide what the agency did while investigating the death of President John F. Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s movements in Mexico City were curated by CIA officials who used internal inventories to decide which records to scrub and which to sequester from the public.
CIA employee names remain deleted from audio recordings while an abrupt end to files on Martin Luther King Jr. leaves an investigative trail incomplete.