The Trump administration on Friday released thousands of documents relating to Amelia Earhart , the pilot who vanished while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, which it painted as an effort to improve transparency about her unsolved disappearance.

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated in a press release that her department was releasing documents — including a photograph and several records that were already publicly available, according to the New York Times — “to end the weaponization of intelligence and instead focus the Intelligence Community on finding the truth and telling the truth, and ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”

Earhart, who was attempting to become the first woman aviator to fly around the world when her p

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