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FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, sources say
CNN Lite ^ | October 07, 2025 | Josh Campbell, CNN

Posted on 10/08/2025 5:42:36 AM PDT by Red Badger

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, and New York to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, two law enforcement sources told CNN.

Employees in the FBI’s DC and New York field offices received a highly unusual message from their leadership flagged with high importance late Tuesday telling them: “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.”

FBI employees were given a priority deadline of Wednesday to respond to the request, which comes on the seventh day of an ongoing federal government shutdown.

Earhart was attempting to become the first woman to fly around the world when her plane went missing over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. She was declared lost at sea following a 16-day search.

President Donald Trump last month said he was directing his administration to “declassify and release all government records” related to Earhart.

“Her disappearance, almost 90 years ago, has captivated millions. I am ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Earhart, the first female pilot to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean, broke a number of aviation records, and she has been a source of public fascination during her life and after.

Conspiracy theories have developed since the aviator’s disappearance, but as CNN noted in 2024, the US government suspected that Earhart and her navigator crashed into the Pacific when the plane ran out of fuel.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Military/Veterans; Travel
KEYWORDS: ameliaearhart; aviation; cnn; frednoonan; governmentwaste; joshcampbell; pacific

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To: Red Badger

Sorry, I must ask why. Seems irrelevant & immateral considering what thee mission is here, which is to save this nation.


21 posted on 10/08/2025 6:43:12 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Palio di Siena

Absolutely. Try to find her the luggage Tom Hanks used in “Joe Versus The Volcano”.


22 posted on 10/08/2025 6:44:32 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger

If this is just like my home, you never find something until you are looking for something else.


23 posted on 10/08/2025 6:47:44 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: GingisK

The Imperial Japanese Navy has long been suspected of capturing and executing them............


24 posted on 10/08/2025 6:48:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I have seen articles and videos to that affect. It strikes me as being a possibility.


25 posted on 10/08/2025 7:07:14 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Red Badger
The Imperial Japanese Navy has long been suspected of capturing and executing them............

This conspiracy theory has NEVER made any sense to me - it would have been a huge PR boost for the IJN, and allowed them to rub it in the faces of the US Navy that was thrashing around ineffectively trying to find them.
26 posted on 10/08/2025 7:10:22 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Palio di Siena

* My mother had a set of Sears Amelia Erhart luggage.
I always thought it was tempting fate when she flew anywhere*

I always saw her luggage mentioned on game shows when I was a kid. Even then I thought “Why would they name luggage after someone who flew and was never heard from again”?


27 posted on 10/08/2025 7:10:49 AM PDT by sgt_lau (Islamophobic? No. I reject a 7th century death-cult that demands non-believers like me, dead.)
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To: Red Badger
Great, I love sideshows. 😁

28 posted on 10/08/2025 7:15:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Red Badger

There is an expedition in early November that is investigating an artifact just off the coast of an atoll. There is a very strong possibility that this is Earhart’s plane. The scuttlebutt is that this will prove she was a poor navigator. One could suppose that this information dig could be looking for evidence that there was another reason for her being off course. There has long been rumors that she was gathering intelligence against the Japanese.


29 posted on 10/08/2025 7:16:05 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: All

This is CNN.....

Does anyone else think this could be completely fake news????


30 posted on 10/08/2025 7:23:43 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Crusher138

“The scuttlebutt is that this will prove she was a poor navigator.”

She just flew the plane, Fred Noonan was the navigator. My question is why anything about her and the flight has been “classified” for almost a century.


31 posted on 10/08/2025 7:27:02 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: redfreedom

I hope they also immediately head to poucha pond and look for a second Olds delmont 88.


32 posted on 10/08/2025 7:40:50 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: posterchild

The immediacy seems odd.


just because it is in a headline does not mean it is true.........................


33 posted on 10/08/2025 7:47:12 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: SaxxonWoods

I watched an interesting documentary on her. What stood out to me was the role her husband played in making her out to be more of a “brand” than anything else. It was mostly about fame and money to him.

Other female pilots with more experience and expertise had been interviewed back then and they made many comments such as, she wasn’t good at landing/sometimes made very hard landings due to lack of experience. She wasn’t physically fit, nor have the stamina for such long flights. She relied too heavily on her navigator for tasks she should have been able to figure out on her own because she had little skill of her own.

The craziest one was mention of weight on the plane. She carried so much luggage due to her many appearances they often had to make extra fuel stops since the plane couldn’t be fully fueled or be overweight. Sometimes it did fly overweight though. One interview spoke about watching her try to take off and clear a tree line which she was barely able to do.

Yeah. I would love to see the real truth on all the mistakes made for the price of fame and fortune that in the end cost her and the navigator their lives.


34 posted on 10/08/2025 7:51:40 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: Red Badger

THIS JUST IN! Amelia Earhart STILL MISSING!!


35 posted on 10/08/2025 8:01:51 AM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other, Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Crusher138
The scuttlebutt is that this will prove she was a poor navigator.

She wasn't the navigator as this was not a solo flight. Her navigator was Fred Noonan who had a reputation for liking to pull a cork.

36 posted on 10/08/2025 8:22:30 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Red Badger

Guys, remember a couple of days ago we had the story about how that team from Purdue had found something on satellite pictures that they believe was her plane. I assume someone either wants to support them in either confirming what we know about that area, or not.

“Our info says she went THIS direction, not THAT direction. Save your money”.


37 posted on 10/08/2025 8:39:26 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: Red Badger

Right after they play their 99th attempt at DOOM.


38 posted on 10/08/2025 8:49:09 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Red Badger

Who cares. She’s dead Jim.


39 posted on 10/08/2025 8:49:34 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: posterchild

Some group says they think they know where the plane is from aerial photos and they are going to this little island to hopefully bring the plane to the surface and identify it.


40 posted on 10/08/2025 9:06:44 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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