CIA Whistleblower: Agency Removed JFK, MKUltra Files from ODNI

A CIA whistleblower testified Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that agency personnel removed about 40 boxes of documents related to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the MKUltra program from a facility under the control of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

The testimony by James Erdman III, a senior CIA operations officer, came during a hearing on intelligence matters. He stated the documents had been in the process of declassification by Gabbard's office when they were taken last year from a National Reconnaissance Office warehouse during a government shutdown. The files have not been returned, according to multiple accounts, including two intelligence community officials who spoke to reporters.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican who chairs a House Oversight subcommittee task force on federal secrets declassification, confirmed the agency took the documents over which the Office of the Director of National Intelligence holds jurisdiction. "We were actually just notified that the CIA went in and took documents out of ODNI. Multiple boxes pertaining to the JFK files, as well as MKUltra," Luna said during...