This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

As we continue with Part 2, a web exclusive talking to Peter Cornblue at the National Security Archive,

about the federal government releasing around 80,000 pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Some say the documents are revealed few new revelations on the assassination.

But these unredacted files are filled with details about covert CIA operations around the world from the Vatican to Latin America.

So we continue now with Peter Cornblue, senior analyst for Latin America at the National Security Archive.

He's researched CIA operations for decades with a focus on Latin America.

We've interviewed him on his books like Back Channel to Cuba, the hidden history of negotiations

between Washington and Havana and Bay of Pigs declassified, the secret CIA report on the

invasion of Cuba. He is joining us from Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Peter, thank you so much for staying with us. Let's start off by you responding to President Trump

releasing these tens of thousands of pages on the JFK assassination, in attempt to show that the

administration is, quote, the most transparent administration in history.

Your thoughts on this and how this all came about?

There's really three parts to the whole discussion of the JFK papers that have come out this week.

One is the content that has been revealed in these long held secret documents.

We are getting to the final secrets that for all these years, the CIA and the FBI and others have resisted releasing since the

JFK law was passed back in 1992 so many years ago. And that's the second part of the discussion.

The law itself, a precedent-setting law, forcing the declassification of information, documentation, secrets that

probably would have stayed classified for eternity had not this law been passed and forced them

into the public domain.

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