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The title "CONTACT OF LEE OSWALD WITH A MEMBER OF SOVIET KGB ASSASSINATION DEPARTMENT" caught my eye. "Assassination department" invokes images of bored assassins sitting in cubicles doing busy work. Unfortunately, all the pages are redacted (or poorly scanned).

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2021/do...

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> all the pages are all redacted

I'm not sure if I'm missing a joke here, those are easily legible.

Indeed, this looks like a poor quality scan on an old monochrome Xerox machine or the like, not an actual attempt at redacting content. It's readable in Preview on macOS at the right zoom level.

Zoomed out, it all looks grey, but zoomed in, you can kind of read it.

this blackout is really weird -- if you're at 100% its unreadable, and as you zoom in it becomes more readable, peaking around 250% zoom... and if you go further it becomes more unreadable, and after like 450% it becomes totally unreadable again.

The overlayed pattern is also very specifically designed, and quite peculiar

looks like a greyscale image converted to 1-bit color with dithering. looks exactly like that, to me, actually

Looks like redactions got pwned by aliasing.

Sounds ripe for a Coen Brothers / Armando Iannucci hybrid series. Burn After Reading / Fargo meets The Death of Stalin. Something like The Office, dealing with the administrative support side of an Assassination Department. An IT-esque Department troubleshooting BondQ gadgets remotely. Fishy expense reports.

That's not redacted, it's just a dither.

For me it looks like neither.

Instead it looks like the paper was scanned in one of this plastic sleeves you can put documents in if you don't want to punch holes in them or give them additional protection. Older versions of this sleeves tend to not be perfectly clear but instead have a pattern similar to that you can seen in the scan.

Through in the end it's just speculation.

They really hit their targets.

Unlike up and to the right, they want their targets going back and to the left.

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