EXCLUSIVE: Judge 'Anxious to See' JFK Documents Discovered by Trump Officials

Judge John Tunheim, who oversaw JFK declassification effort in the 1990s, says FBI 'clearly assured' him all relevant documents had been provided.

(Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios)

This mind-bending scoop comes from Marc Caputo of Axios.

In the course of responding to President Trump’s Executive Order 14176, FBI officials discovered a collection of assassination-related records containing 2,400 documents.

The still-secret records are contained in 14,000 pages of documents the FBI found in a review triggered by President Trump's Jan. 23 executive order demanding the release of all JFK assassination records.

A key detail in Caputo’s report: The FBI checked with the National Archives which confirmed the records had not been given to them, as required by the 1992 JFK Records Act.

"This is huge,” I told Caputo in a phone interview. “It shows the FBI is taking this seriously. The FBI is finally saying, 'Let's respond to the president's order,' instead of keeping the secrecy going.”