New Guinea - Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan, en route to Howland Island, 2 July 1937

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/politics/amelia-earhart-fbi-employees-record-search

October 7, 2025

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....

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[Richard]

Amelia Earhart went missing with her aircraft and navigator Fred Noonan on 2 July 1937. The official conclusion was that she ran out of fuel and ditched in the Pacific Ocean. From the earliest news reports, hope and theories that she had survived the crash landing and was sending out radio messages were expressed.

In the 1960's some researchers believed that she and Noonan had been captured by the Japanese in the Marshall Islands and held prisoner on Saipan. That belief was supported by testimony from various islander witnesses.

In more recent times, the theory that they ditched or crash landed on Gardiner Island (now called Nikumaroro) has been widely publicized. A group called TIGHAR has raised large amounts of money and conducted a number of unsuccessful search missions to Nikumaroro, never finding any solid evidence that she was there.

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