Law enforcement sources reportedly told CNN that President Donald Trump has directed the FBI to search its offices for materials relating to Amelia Earhart.
“Per a priority request from the Executive Office of the President of the United States, please search any areas where papers or physical media records may be stored, to include both open or closed cases, for records responsive to Amelia Earhart,” read a message distributed to employees of the DC and New York field offices.
The message follows President Trump declaring on Truth Social on September 26 that he would order his administration to “declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her.”
In July, Rep. Kimberlyn King-Hinds of the Northern Marina Islands (R) sent a letter to President Trump, urging his administration to release files related to Earhart’s disappearance.
King-Hinds wrote that a “number of elderly residents still recall [Earhart’s] presence in the Pacific, with some sharing credible, firsthand accounts of having seen her on the island of Saipan.”
“In pursuing clarity for my constituents, I have become aware that the U.S. government may still hold documents or records related to Earhart’s journey and final whereabouts that have not yet been made public,” the letter read. “Should such records exist, their release would contribute emaningfully to our understanding of one of America’s most revered aviators and could finally shed light on the final chapter of her remarkable life.”
President Trump previously declassified records related to President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
