Overview

• Employees at the FBI’s Washington Field Office received a high-importance message directing searches of workstations, paper files, and digital media for any records related to Amelia Earhart.
• The internal notice cited a “priority request from the Executive Office of the President” and required responses by Wednesday.
• Reports based on law enforcement sources indicate the order also reached the FBI’s New York offices.
• The sweep follows President Donald Trump’s public instruction last month to declassify and release all government records tied to Earhart’s 1937 disappearance.
• The search is occurring during a federal government shutdown, and some historians doubt the effort will uncover significant new information after decades of prior releases.