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CIA Releases 13M Pages of Declassified Documents Online (bbc.com)
About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate programme, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists. From a report on BBC: The move came after lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the CIA. The full archive is made up of almost 800,000 files. They had previously only been accessible at the National Archives in Maryland. The trove includes the papers of Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as several hundred thousand pages of intelligence analysis and science research and development.
...Your Tax Dollars At Work!
This oughta be FUN!!!
I knew it!
That's where everybody else releases classified US docs, isn't it?
Just a quick browse of the CREST archive shows a number of items that are historically intriguing, be it the Berlin tunnel, formulae for invisible ink, OPSEC tutorials for the old OSS, and other items.
The documentation about GITMO is also worth a look-see.
Definitely stuff worth looking at, and some of it might be something worth having in an American History class.
Their currency is the maple-shilling, and they are a constitutional moosearchy.
Release cryptographic signatures upon document creation ane keep classified documents secret. When declassified, check signature for tampering. Seems like this should be built into freedom of information act. At the very least we should know when a fraudulent document was created or modified.
A lot of companies have a couple people that do something of value, and 1000 boondoggle projects and worthless executives to go with them.
They, at least, sometimes go out of business, and have therefore some incentive to improve toward marginal efficiency and rational resource allocation.
"Intelligence agencies" have neither. And the results of this are becoming manifestly obvious. Not sure what your point is, but let's draw a real-world example. For the cost of the Iraq war, we could have provided every man, worman, and child in that country with a college education, labeled "goodwill of the United States". Which choice of financial expenditure do you think would have left us with better relations with the Islamic world? And the fact we didn't make that choice, lies squarely with the "OMGWMD" agencies. There were no enhanced salaries and ever-growing bureaucracies on offer for Option #1, so, of course, that didn't happen.
If you think there aren't better, vastly more straightforward ways to influence countries and work toward peace with 70 billion dollars that don't involve massive payoffs to the military-industrial complex and killing people nearly at random, you seem just about unimaginative enough to apply to a three-letter-agency yourself.
"Programme" is the old English spelling, while "Program" is the modern English spelling. This proves that the CIA has been experimenting with time travel and space travel at Area Bacardi 151, and employs agents from Old England. The space travel gadget is so powerful that the Old English CIA agents recently voted and were able to move the entire island of England out of Europe! Rumors have it, that in two years time, the technology (unencumbered by those meddling Boys in Brussels) will be so advanced that they will vote to leave the planet Earth entirely!
This was recently announced by Old England's Prime Minister May (who nobody voted for an was selected by Russian Hackers), who said that Old England was going to "go away globally." This announcement caused some consternation in Indian workers, who when they misheard, "Old England has long global traditions", to mean that Old England was going to conquer third world countries and turn them into colonies to rebuild the Empire . . .
. . . and Strike Back!
Americans need not be worried, however. Old England policemen, called "Bobbies", although very few of them are actually named Bob, don't carry weapons. And neither do their soldiers. Except the SAS men, whole ALWAYS carry their knives with them, all the time. When they shower, they hold it between their butt-cheeks. Americans are armed to their teeth, and their major pastime is shooting holes in each other.
On the other hand, if you ask a Bobby for directions, he or she will smile and point you in the right direction. American police folks will cut you to pieces with a fully automatic Heckler & Koch MP5, and then run you over with a BearCat.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The proper Canadian spelling is "Program-ay".
/ducks
I'm glad they released all this material, because *this* is chock-full of useful info....
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