What's feeble about my explanation? Have you ever been to the National Archives? They give access, but it's a process and they don't give you your own copies for free. It costs money that comes out of the researcher's pocket.

I don't know what you're talking about them keeping 100's of pages from the public. The Valachi manuscript is available at the JFK Library in Boston and the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. I looked thru the whole thing at was all there. Nothing was being kept from the public. If you want copies to bring home, then you gotta pay something like 10 or 15 cents a copy. Multiply that by a 1000 pages and you're talking $100 to $150, unless the price of copies went up.