It seems any excitement is contingent on believing not just in the conspiracy, but also in extreme incompetence, no?
Releases staggered by decades come with great plausible deniability. Is the FBI today responsible for what the FBI of the past did to MLK? If anything relevant was revealed, I'd expect the modern versions of the involved agencies to be the first condemn those actions. Whether that's genuine or not is practically impossible to know. But it's almost certainly sufficient to ensure they'll never face any meaningful consequences for their actions.
[1] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr...
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor#U.S._involvem...
Among King's lovers was Georgia Davis Powers, first black senator of Kentucky, who wrote about their affair. According to her for instance she slept with him the night before he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel. She was climbing into the ambulance to go with him until another individual reminded her of how inappropriate it would be. These are some pretty specific claims coming from a reputable source with 0 motivation to lie, that could be easily falsified.
The letter also mentions another lover by name and implies there was an attached audio recording of King with the classy phrasing, "Lend your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure..." That audiotape is set to be publicly released in 2027. And then there is the bio of Ralph Abernathy, King's successor at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the man King described as "the best friend I have in the world." Within his bio he discussed King's (and his own) regular infidelities.
[1] - https://stevehuff.net/2015/07/02/ernest-hemingways-justified...
This kind of belief is more common than you might expect. There's arguably a whole genre of "faceless enemy" in various worldviews that is blatantly corrupt/incompetent/inferior while also being overwhelmingly disciplined and powerful.
In such scenarios, you might see gaps open up in areas viewed as optional drudgery, or dull thankless conveniences.
Consider the Lufthansa heist depicted in the movie Goodfellas. It involved some highly motivated gangsters, who enlisted some sloppy flunkies for assistance. Guys like the getaway driver screwed up and got whacked for failing to dump the getaway car without incident, inviting paranoia that they might arouse suspicion. Then, as paranoia magnified over time, the displined core erased every untrustworthy witness.
The principal stakeholders in an operation will often possess power and skill, but their accomplices might not.
If there was a conspiracy it would have been a small clique (most of whom would now be dead) not the whole government or even official channels thereof. In other words it would have been a crime.
These files were slated to be released as ordered by Congress after the JFK film.
BTW TIL Trump is trying to claim credit for what is a scheduled release.
Its not like in books.
Had we believed that an agent of a foreign state had assassinated our head of state, we'd have been obliged to go to war.
This "hypothetically" begs the question and assumes that some three-letter acronym plotted to kill JFK.
> but also in extreme incompetence, no?
You contradict yourself. If the supposed plotters were so incompetent, how could they have pulled this off and kept the supposed cover-up alive for so long?