Subscribe free to our daily email newsletterAgents Raid Former National Archives Department Head Home
Our good friends at TBD.com are reporting that National Archives agents have raided the Rockville home of a former Archives department head and have seized a large amount of material.
The former department head, Leslie Waffen, had worked at the Archives for 40 years and was most recently in charge of the agency’s Motion Picture, Sound, and Video unit. This department worked on preserving the only known audio recording of the John F. Kennedy assassination, as well as the Zapruder film. Waffen retired in June.
The Archives Inspector General confirmed to TBD.com that Archives agents had searched a home in Rockville, and a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshall’s Service confirmed that the Marshalls had helped Archives agents search Waffen’s home on Saddle Ridge Lane (in King Farm).
Waffen was not arrested and was not charged with a crime.
According to the TBD.com article:
A law enforcement official familiar with the details of the search said agents arrived with a moving truck and an extensive list of items they were seeking. Archives investigators located boxes of materials and “identified [the items] right away as theirs” in a basement room and, after securing the contents, removed the boxes from the house and loaded them onto the truck.
We know our readers must surely be curious as to what was in the boxes, but we don’t know. When and if we find out, we will pass it on.
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