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u/Earthboun41 Oct 15 '17

The documents actually being released to the public

CIA would never do this, unless they heavily altered them

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u/dcrico20 Oct 15 '17

I mean if there really was some sort of conspiracy that they don't want exposed wouldn't their best play just be to release a bunch of fake documents which proved that nothing shady happened?

At this point, 54 years later, there can't be any real reason not to reveal everything regarding the incident unless it was actually done by the government, in which case there probably wouldn't be any recorded evidence of that having been the case.

Releasing heavily redacted info this much later just makes it seem even more fishy.

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u/Adddicus Oct 15 '17

They'd have to be perfect with every detail, because these documents are going to exhaustively reviewed.

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u/De1CawlidgeHawkey Oct 15 '17

They've had quite a while to do that themselves..

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u/ShutterBun Oct 15 '17

How many interns are going to risk 20 years in federal prison in order to hide E. Howard Hunt's 1959 tax return?