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Cuban Colada: "Bobby Kennedy papers regarding Cuba are off-limits to researchers, Boston daily says

From an article by Bryan Bender titled 'A dark corner of Camelot,' published Sunday in The Boston Globe.

Stacked in a vault at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Dorchester [Mass.], individually sealed and labeled, are 54 crates of records so closely guarded that even the library director is prohibited from taking a peek.

The trove contains some of the most important records of Cold War history: diaries, notes, phone logs, messages, trip files, and other documents from Robert F. Kennedy’s service as U.S. Attorney General, including details about his roles in the Cuban missile crisis and as coordinator of covert efforts to overthrow or assassinate Fidel Castro.

A half-century after those critical events, a behind-the-scenes tussle continues over the Kennedy family’s refusal to grant permission for researchers to freely review them. [...] Some historians attribute the family’s guarded attitude to a desire to protect Robert Kennedy’s image [...]"