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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has announced that she has released 10,000 pages of files “directly related to the assassination” of former US Senator and US Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), who was assassinated in a hotel kitchen in Los Angeles in 1968.
“In the course of searching FBI and CIA warehouses for records not previously turned over to The National Archives, an additional 50,000 pages of RFK assassination files were discovered,” her office announced in a press release. “The agencies are working to make these records available and will continue to search government facilities for additional files.”
Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. commended President Trump in a statement “for his courage and his commitment to transparency” in paving the way to release the long-hidden files on his father’s assassination.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump signed an executive order, almost immediately after taking office on January 20, ordering the declassification of the assassination files for President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
BREAKING: President Trump Signs Executive Order to Declassify JFK, MLK, RFK Assassination Files, “Everything will be Revealed” (VIDEO)
Gabbard’s office issued the following press release on Friday morning:
Director Gabbard and Secretary Kennedy Statement on Release of Previously Classified Senator Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Records
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald J. Trump promised maximum transparency and a commitment to rebuild the trust of the American people in the Intelligence Community (IC) and federal agencies.
Part of that promise was to fully release previously-classified records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), Senator Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK).
Unlike the JFK assassination files — which were identified and released in accordance with federal law — files related to the assassinations of RFK and MLK had not been digitized and sat collecting dust in facilities across the federal government for decades.
Per the President’s directive, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard charged her Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) with leading the effort to digitize, declassify, and prepare the RFK and MLK files for public release.
Today’s release concerns files directly related to the assassination of RFK. The DIG partnered with The National Archives and other agency officials to manually scan and upload over 10,000 pages, for online viewing by the American people, to fulfill President Trump’s maximum transparency promise.
“Nearly 60 years after the tragic assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the American people will, for the first time, have the opportunity to review the federal government’s investigation thanks to the leadership of President Trump.
My team is honored that the President entrusted us to lead the declassification efforts and to shine a long-overdue light on the truth. I extend my deepest thanks for Bobby Kennedy and his families’ support,” said DNI Gabbard.
“Lifting the veil on the RFK papers is a necessary step toward restoring trust in American government,” said U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “I commend President Trump for his courage and his commitment to transparency. I’m grateful also to Tulsi Gabbard for her dogged efforts to root out and declassify these documents.”
President Trump’s Executive Order 14176 stated, “although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest.”
Starting today, the first tranche of RFK files, that were previously sitting in storage at The National Archives, are now accessible online at archives.gov/rfk. This release consists of approximately 10,000 pages of previously classified records that will be published with minimal redactions for privacy reasons — including redactions for Social Security Numbers and Tax Identification Numbers.
In the course of searching FBI and CIA warehouses for records not previously turned over to The National Archives, an additional 50,000 pages of RFK assassination files were discovered. The agencies are working to make these records available and will continue to search government facilities for additional files. Newly found records will be added to the webpage at archives.gov/rfk.
DNI Gabbard will post updates on X (@DNIGabbard) and Truth Social (@DNlTulsiGabbard) as more files are released. The files will also be available on the White House’s website.
The records can be found at the National Archives webpage here.
“We have over 100 people at National Archives going through and scanning, and that will be the second release that we’ll have here shortly,” she said in an interview with Fox’s Brian Kilmeade on Friday.
Gabbard also addressed the bizarre circumstances surrounding the assassination and the possibility that there may have been a second shooter and that we still don’t know who really killed RFK. “There are a lot of different questions. I think, in my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers. We’ll see what the next 50,000 pages brings forward,” she said.
She further shared more details on the individual arrested by the FBI after making direct threats against her and her husband. According to Gabbard, the two received “hundreds” of texts and calls with “very, very explicit, direct threats,” including “We know where you live, we will come after you, come after your wife, come after your family, you will be killed.”
Watch below:
Gabbard: Secretary Kennedy had the opportunity to review these documents before the release occurred, but as you point out there in his quote, he’s already spent a lot of time, as you can imagine, throughout his life, trying to seek the truth here.
And what you’ll find, and as folks go to archives.gov/rfk, they will see a number of documents that really support the questions that Secretary Kennedy has been asking for decades around who really killed his father There, for example, was a woman who ran away from the scene of the shooting, yelling, we got him. She yelled, “We shot him. We shot him.”
There are other documents there I mentioned State Department cables that show different countries were sending messages to each other around Senator Kennedy’s assassination, saying that he had been assassinated, but that was before he was actually killed.
So, there are a lot of different questions. I think, in my view, these documents provide the background to more questions than answers. We’ll see what the next 50,000 pages brings forward.
Kilmeade: So, there was a there was somebody who gave you threatening messages, wanted to take your life, and he’s been arrested. Aliakabar Mohammad Amin, 24 years old, from Georgia. He said to you, to prepare to die and to your husband, tell your wife basically to be loyal to Vladimir Putin and obey his orders. Your thoughts about his capture and the threat?
Gabbard: Well, it’s first of all. This is a radicalized individual who started sending direct threats both to me and my husband weeks ago. He found my husband’s phone number and was constantly texting him.
There are well over hundreds of text messages, called him numerous times a day. Of course, he didn’t answer the call, but with very, very explicit direct threats: We know where you live, we will come after you, come after your wife, come after your family, you will be killed.
And I received similar threats myself, so I want to just say thank you to the FBI and the US Marshals and local law enforcement there in Georgia, who, when presented with evidence, conducted an investigation and quickly brought him in and arrested him.
It has obviously stopped, stopped the threats from coming in, but these things have to be taken seriously. And again, when we look at what the tragedies our country has experienced in the past, we look at the fact that our own president had two assassination attempts in his life just recently. What happens when political differences turn into political violence? They have to be taken seriously.
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