<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>George,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>You're naïve.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I don't know about secrecy oaths, but I recently filed a FOIA request regarding an
incident during the early months of the Korean War, some sixty years ago.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>When I received the document, half of one page was redacted. When I requested that the redaction be removed, the CIA explained that it remained classified according to a Presidential Order and that the redaction was properly classified.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Between you and me, and the rest of this group, I believe the redaction involved the destruction of a Soviet nuclear facility by American bombers in North Korea in 1950.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Bill</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div></div><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div
class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1784888924"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><div id="yiv1784888924"><div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Call me naïve but I think transparency would make for a more peaceful world. After all, 34-year-old events are beyond any reasonable time for state secrets to be kept. </span><br></div>
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<div>Archimedes Patti, who honored his OSS secrecy oath for 3 decades, was permitted to acknowledge that Ho Chi-Minh was American OSS Agent 019 during World War 2.</div>
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<div>George Katsiaficas</div></div></div></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>