The CIA has stormed into Tulsi Gabbard’s office, seizing dozens of boxes of documents she was preparing to declassify.
According to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, the agency entered and took multiple boxes pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the CIA’s MKUltra program.
Luna stated that this action violates President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the full declassification of JFK-related documents and MKUltra materials. She noted that the CIA has previously claimed all such documents were released or destroyed, but these seized items allegedly never existed.
“The reason why this is troubling,” Luna explained, “is that there was an executive order for the full declassification of JFK files and MKUltra. The CIA famously said all documents were released and others destroyed. So these are apparently those documents that never existed.”
Luna added that she has contacted the White House to request the director of the CIA and is sending preservation requests for the documents.
Background indicates that MKUltra materials, which were part of a covert program to conduct psychological experiments on subjects, were largely destroyed in the 1970s by CIA directors in an effort to erase evidence. The seized files are among the remaining approximately 15% of such documents still in existence.