The Central Intelligence Agency removed approximately 40 boxes of classified documents from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — including files on the JFK assassination and the Cold War-era MKUltra mind-control program — while Tulsi Gabbard was in the process of declassifying them under a direct presidential order. The removal happened last year, in the middle of the night during the government shutdown. Congress learned about it on Wednesday.
The story broke when James Erdman III, a senior CIA operations officer, testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the CIA had “took back” the 40 boxes just as the records were nearing release under Trump’s Executive Order 14176, which directs the full declassification of historically sensitive federal records, including JFK assassination files.
Erdman also alleged the CIA “illegally monitored the computer and phone usage” of Gabbard’s investigators during their probe into an alleged COVID-19 origins cover-up.
“These were Americans being spied on illegally while carrying out duties directed by the President and under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence,” he said. Two intelligence sources confirmed the document seizure to The Daily Caller.
By Wednesday evening the story had been amplified and distorted. Fox News host Jesse Watters told viewers the CIA had “just raided” Gabbard’s office that day.
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