The release of as many as 80,000 pages of classified files comes after decades of smaller releases of redacted files.

The release of the John F. Kennedy papers sets a standard for transparency that must also be applied to the current administration.

DALLAS (AP) — More than 63,000 pages of records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Donald Trump, many without the redactions that had confounded historians for years and helped fuel conspiracy theories.

History buffs have uncovered revelations about U.S. espionage in the 1960s in thousands of pages of newly released government records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The unveiling of more than 2,000 documents related to John F. Kennedy’s assassination offers a glimpse into CIA agents and operations that were kept secret for decades.

In May 1958, the CIA’s Far East Division hatched a plan: recruit an attractive white woman to extract information from the president of Indonesia by engaging in an “intimate relationship” with him. The operation was dubbed Project Harpstar.