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Justice

Declassification plans ordered

Order a plan to release the assassination records

The files are to be released after a plan explaining how to release them.

Executive owner
Donald J. Trump / National Intelligence / Justice Department
Status
Declassification plans ordered
Due
15 days for the JFK plan; 45 days for RFK and MLK plans
Paying for it
Intelligence, Justice and archival review resources

Entered in the archive 2026-10-16.

ACTIVITY

Record date
EO
Executive OfficeArchive note

Records received separate planning deadlines.

DJT
Donald J. TrumpBoard review

RELEASE THE FILES, get the Plan moving!

EO
Executive OfficeArchive note

Reviewers identified documents that require review before the review can finish.

DJT
Donald J. TrumpBoard review

They've had Decades, I give them Days, suddenly very difficult..... could've done the Planning while they were doing all the Waiting!

EO
Executive OfficeArchive note

Publication has not been replaced by the signing photograph.

DJT
Donald J. TrumpBoard review

I like Transparency, very Clear kind, where you can actually SEE something.

SUGGESTED NEXT STEP

Measure progress in pages released rather than folders reviewed.

PUBLIC RECORD

Executive Order 14176, signed January 23, 2025: Directed a plan for release of JFK assassination records within 15 days and review and release plans for records concerning the RFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations within 45 days. Signing the order did not itself publish every record.

Federal Register · Executive Order 14176 · 2025-01-31 ↗