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by overrun11 1020 days ago
Organizations keep secrets all the time. A huge amount of American history is learned after the fact when documents are declassified.
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So despite countless of soviet spies in the FBI and CIA, the end of the cold war, defectors and open archives

The JFK assassination still remained a secret?

I think there are some secrets that don’t go on file. Often times the most crucial meetings involve subtle cues over a cup of tea.
Thousands of documents related to it still remain classified, even after a declaration to declassify them. So... Yes.