Quiet Releases

BK Notes - I will be adding to this as I get time to read through what's there.

Quiet Releases

I almost didn't notice, but the National Archives released a number of new batches from previously sealed or redacted records from the JFK Collection on April 13, April 27 and May 11th that you can access on line at: 

 JFK Assassination Records - 2023 Additional Documents Release | National Archives

While I have not perused these documents yet, one of my associates said that all of the records that have et to be released are significant and should be read carefully to determine why they have been continually held past the Congressionally mandated release date of October 2017. 

Someone who has gone through these newly released records informed me of one that refers to Volkmar Schmidt, one of my favorite subjects, though they spell his name wrong three different ways. 

RIF# - 104-10006-10284 

Is labeled SCHMIDT, Folkner and the Requester of the file is A. W. BRASKO 

And notes he came to US from Germany in 1961.and was living in US Texas. 

Art Dooley called Bill B. on 29 Feb. 64, noting that the FBI talked to Volkmer Schmidt (DRA 65834 14 March 1964 about G.D.M. - (BK:: Obviously Schmidt's friend George deMohrenschuildt) Although your trace was on Vallker Schmidt, the two first names are unusual enough that ou should still send over trace results." 

The way their files worked at the time, an index card gives the basic info and refers to other files that may be in the system. 

This index card reads: 

SCHMIDT, VOLKER 

10N-279871 

DOB 180212 

GERM, JUETRICHAU 

A. SCHWABE JOACHIN 

V. SCHMIDT WALKER 

WEST GERMAN INTEL SERVICE. EE/G/L. MACHINE LISTING. 

NO OTHER IDENTIFING INFO. 

The reverse side of the card reads: 

SCHMIDT, Folke (Prof.)    200-126-1-153 

With the note: This card filed in Main Index. 

200-7-213-1

Subject has written an article appearing in "Svensk Juri...Title: "Right of Asylum for Property", includes info. on situations that maybe faced with demands by a state other (than) the property of a refugee. 

This card filed 15 JAN. 1954 

Ernst SCHMTT (qv-SFX) attended grammer school in Copenhagen and lived with a family by name of.......... 

There is no more - but we know Schmidt lived with the family of a professor in Heidelberg, not Copenhagan. 

IN ADDITION - Among the newly released (April 27, 2023) records there is an interview with James Jesus Angleton that Jefferson Morley, author of an Angleton biography (Ghost), thinks is important because it continues to redact the name Israel as the country that Angleton maintained a CIA-Mossad liaison  with that he writes about here: 

Biden Maintains Veil Over Israeli Nuclear Bomb Program