There is nothing important left to disclose in the JFK collection at the National Archives

    Matt Chorley of BBC radio broadcast this interview with me on March 7.  Record of program.  Computer-generated transcript.

   I had this interview in Politico on the still-classified JFK files at the National Archives. I cannot imagine there is anything important in these documents. For one thing, the CIA in 2017 wrote that no CIA documents were then withheld in their entirety. This means, the gist of all CIA documents is public. The same CIA letter explains the criteria for any redactions in documents. It hardly seems that anything earthshaking is in those redactions. I point out that if the CIA or any other agency didn't want the public to see a document, it would not have turned it over to the National Archives.