[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 119, Issue 6

[Bill Streifer]

George,

You're naïve.

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.

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.

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.

Bill
 
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. 
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>>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.
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>>George Katsiaficas 
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