Unclassified JFK Assassination Databate Still Stored in Secret Vault

[Douglas Caddy]

Unclassified JFK Assassination Database Still Stored In Top Secret Vault -- for Convenience

By Aliya Sternstein July 23, 2014

www.nextgov.com

The master database cataloging material related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has always been housed in a Top Secret vault, much of the time on a personal computer, according to National Archives and Records Administration officials.

The index -- which does not hold physical artifacts -- was set up in a stand-alone computer in the early 1990s in response to the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. The law does not require Fort Knox-like protection. It's just handy for the Archives personnel who use the system to have the JFK database close to other caseloads that include classified records

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