Well, releasing ALL the documents would be a good start. Seeing as how it is over 50 years after the fact, when all of the principles are now dead, that should not be too much to ask.
> Seeing as how it is over 50 years after the fact, when all of the principles are now dead, that should not be too much to ask.
Henry Kissinger is 99. Plenty of people from that era are still alive.
More importantly, if there's information on specific CIA informants in there, their networks and the people they recruited may well have survived them.
Not to mention locations of safe houses, organizational / reporting structures of CIA stations, techniques for cultivating assets, etc. There are plenty of above-board reasons for not doing a full and complete release of all docs.
To paraphrase Pulp Fiction, "When you conspiracy theorists get together, you're worse than a sewing circle."
Keeping the same safe houses or reporting structures in place for 60 years seems like it would be terrible OPSEC. The IC is very good at coming up with plausible sounding explanations for why they have to keep secrets that the masses will believe without question but that don't stand up to deeper reflection.
I suspect the remaining redactions are because they're waiting for certain people to pass away. Probably not major players but there could be people who were in their 20's or 30's in 1963 who had some knowledge of what happened. Once they've all died off it will be forever impossible to prove anything because anything really damning would never have been written down or the records would have been destroyed years ago.
I don't think they'll release the truth until after Felix Rodriguez passes. He's still killing people in 2013. Batista wasn't enough to satisfy his thirst for murder.
