What the 2025 release changed

These are the passages that rest on a document released in 2025, rather than on the existing literature. They are the part of this book that could not have been written before, and they are the first thing worth checking, because the release is recent enough that nobody has been over all of it.

The record number opens the document at the National Archives. If a passage here misreads its document, that is a correction worth sending: the corrections page records every one.

What it says	Record	Chapter
The JFK files include somebody's leave card	180-10060-10489	17
It is not one document. It is a pattern.	180-10060-10489	17
Signed by the chairman himself	180-10060-10489	17
What a hit rate really looks like		17
Four months later, the CIA was reading its own accusation	104-10003-10041	17
They were still asking about Kostikov in 1982	104-10012-10024	17
What the new files are actually made of		17
You cannot search them	104-10414-10124	17
The file that names the spies	104-10075-10200	17
Why that is worse than a Social Security number	104-10075-10200	17
Nobody read it before it went up		17
Deaddrop, black box, check it every week	104-10075-10200	17
The volunteer	104-10069-10112	17
Controlled, encouraged or discouraged	104-10069-10112	17
They were going to blow up every power plant in Cuba	104-10069-10112	17
Do not reproduce	104-10069-10112	17
What I will and will not repeat		17
The Director of the CIA thanked Australia for keeping a file shut	104-10009-10222	17
Nobody was asking, so they kept it closed	104-10009-10222	17
And we now know what was in it	104-10009-10222	17
The same letter, filed twice	104-10009-10222	17
Five years on, it was still routine	104-10009-10222	17
It waited fifty-seven years	104-10009-10222	17
Somebody rang the embassy in Canberra too		17
The tip-off and the lid, from the same service	104-10009-10222	17
British intelligence was bugging the Cuban Embassy in London	124-10058-10420	17
"A typical F.B.I. job"	124-10058-10420	17
The visa that was refused	124-10058-10420	17
They were not sure who they were talking about	124-10058-10420	17
Three services, one conversation	124-10058-10420	17
Sixty-one years in a drawer	124-10058-10420	17
The FBI asked Franco's Spain to find a letter writer	124-10115-10027	17
Controlled American Source	124-10115-10027	17
We never find out what happened	124-10115-10027	17
One letter, four countries	124-10115-10027	17
Withheld to protect a source, for sixty-one years	124-10115-10027	17
"The other Government agency". Decoded, in writing	124-10150-10104	19
Twenty-five copies to Dallas	124-10150-10104	19
The Bureau left a name out on purpose	124-10150-10104	19
Not recorded	124-10150-10104	19
Why I will not name him	124-10150-10104	19
Somebody read the KGB's Oswald file and reported back	104-10014-10064	20
"Nobody could control Oswald"	104-10014-10064	20
They watched him closely and constantly	104-10014-10064	20
The KGB file says he was a poor shot	104-10014-10064	20
What the file said about his marriage	104-10014-10064	20
Destroy after use	104-10014-10064	20
The same cable answers a different mystery	104-10014-10064	20
Why this is not the last word	104-10014-10064	20
The FBI had a file on the man criticizing the FBI	124-10062-10456	20
Two letters that decide how you are treated	124-10062-10456	20
"Covert CIA" was a printed checkbox	124-10062-10456	20
Somebody wrote his name in the margin	124-10062-10456	20
Why watching the critic mattered more than they knew	124-10062-10456	20
Not recorded, again	124-10062-10456	20
The FBI was listening to a mobster gossip about a rental car	124-10223-10076	20
Betting on one man, voting for the other	124-10223-10076	20
"He knew everyone in the rackets"	124-10223-10076	20
Why a mobster's afternoon is in the Kennedy files	124-10223-10076	20
Sixteen names down the side of the page	124-10223-10076	20
They were watching him before there was anything to watch for	124-10223-10076	20
The assassination package	157-10005-10254	20
The most careful witness in the whole archive	157-10005-10254	20
Why a Castro file is in the Kennedy collection	157-10005-10254	20
Still redacted in 2025	157-10005-10254	20
Two occasions	157-10005-10254	20
They went back and asked people again	180-10106-10008	20
Fifteen years later, they went back and asked again	180-10106-10008	20
The photo book with two pictures missing	180-10106-10008	20
The files were released with people's private details in them	180-10106-10008	20
A telephone call in Cambridge, England		23
And it is the one time an allied service investigated		23
And they did have ears, which this book proves	124-10058-10420	23
The one time we watch them discuss disclosure, it is to keep it shut	104-10009-10222	23
Count the documents, not the mentions	104-10009-10222	23
And here is what argues against me	124-10115-10027	23