FBI Drops Appeals on JFK Documents
The FBI has withdrawn appeals to President Clinton opposing the release of previously classified information related to the investigation into President Kennedy’s assassination. In a letter to White House Counsel Jack Quinn, Howard Shapiro, FBI general counsel, said the appeals were withdrawn “after carefully considering the matters raised” by the Assassination Records Review Board, an independent body compiling a public record of the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination. The FBI had argued that releasing the information would prejudice current foreign counterintelligence operations.
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