Overview

• FBI Washington Field Office staff received a high-importance message citing a priority request from the Executive Office of the President.
• Employees were instructed to search workstations, physical media, and both open and closed cases for any Earhart-related records.
• Responses were due Wednesday, the seventh day of the federal government shutdown.
• Reports indicate New York FBI offices were also directed to conduct the same urgent search.
• The effort follows Trump's order to declassify and release all Earhart records, and no new documents have been publicly released yet.