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White House Scrambles After JFK Files Expose Social Security Numbers

President Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center in D.C. on Monday. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

After the Social Security numbers of more than 400 former congressional staffers and others were made public in files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the White House acknowledged the breach Thursday and worked to mitigate the harm.

The National Archives and Records Administration will scrub the files for Social Security numbers, and the Social Security Administration will issue new numbers to those exposed by the inadvertent release, a White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plan.

The Washington Post, in its review of 60,000 pages released this week by the Trump administration, found unredacted Social Security numbers in more than 3,500 instances, because many of the individuals’ numbers were published more than once. (Another release late Thursday brought the total to more than 77,000 pages across some 2,340 documents.)

The Post 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. At least one of them, an author and former law professor, had his number disclosed more than two dozen times.

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