Former Trump Attorney’s Social Security Number Revealed in JFK Files Dump: ‘It’s Absolutely Outrageous’
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Social Security numbers and other non-public information of more than 200 people were revealed in this week’s dump of files related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
On Tuesday, the National Archives placed more than 60,000 pages of previously undisclosed documents on its website after President Donald Trump ordered them released.
“In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released,” the National Archives announced.
The abundance of material made the identification of noteworthy information a slog of an endeavor. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that the document dump doxxed a whole bunch of people – most of whom are former congressional staffers. But one person whose information was released, Joseph diGenova, is a longtime Trump supporter who formerly served as a lawyer for the president’s campaign and has appeared on cable news.
“It’s absolutely outrageous. It’s sloppy, unprofessional,” the 80-year-old attorney told the Post. “It not only means identity theft, but I’ve had threats against me.”
He added, “There are dangerous nuts out there.”
The paper reported:
The Post, in its review of the previously redacted material, discovered the Social Security numbers, birthplaces and birth dates of more than 100 staff members of the Senate Church Committee, established in 1975 to investigate abuses by America’s intelligence agencies and government. The Post also discovered more than 100 Social Security numbers of staff members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which investigated the killing of Kennedy. Many of the individuals are still alive.
Neither the Department of Justice nor the National Archives – whose Archivist Trump fired last month – responded to requests for comment. The Post added:
Many whose Social Security numbers were exposed had become high-ranking officials in Washington. They include a former assistant secretary of state, a former U.S. ambassador, researchers in the intelligence world, State Department workers and prominent lawyers.
DiGenova explained that it “makes sense” that his personal information – which should have been redacted – would be in the files because he examined U.S. intelligence in the 1970s.
“It was fascinating work,” diGenova told the Post. “One of the lawyers on our team located the girlfriend of a mafia guy who was supposedly seeing JFK at the same time. He found her in Nevada or Arizona and got chased away by her husband. Other work we did was looking into assassination plots against Castro and people who were assets of the CIA. Incredible stuff.”
