Background April 13, 1993: Fourteen men believed to be in the employ of Saddam Hussein smuggled bombs into Kuwait with the intent of planting car bombs to assassinate Bush during his visit to Kuwait University. Two of the suspects Wali Abdelhadi Ghazali and Raad Abdel-Amir al-Assadi retracted their confessions at the trial claiming that they were coerced. The plot was foiled when Kuwaiti officials found the bomb and arrested the suspected assassins. Bush had left office in January 1993. The Iraqi Intelligence Service, particularly Directorate 14, was proven to be behind the plot. On June 27, 1993 President Bill Clinton…
Author: John Greenewald
Background In 2013, a grant was awarded to the University of Tennessee for the research into animal decomposition. Here is an abstract of the work overview, which successfully outlined the project and got them the grant money from the Department of Justice / National Institute of Justice, of more than $200,000: “As submitted by the proposer: The past three decades of human decomposition have demonstrated that certain factors promote decomposition, such as high temperatures and insect access, yet the rate of decomposition varies considerably in macro- and microenvironments. The Anthropology Research Facility (ARF) at the University of Tennessee was the…
Background This National Intelligence Daily was issued on June 2, 1990. It appears in the CIA’s CREST database, as CREST #0005301359. Originally, it was released in 2009 with heavy redactions. In January of 2019, I requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR), and in April of 2019 – the CIA released the below version with much less redactions. Document Archive National Intelligence Daily – June 2, 1990 – 2019 Release (Highlighted NEW information released) – [27 Pages, 9.3MB] National Intelligence Daily – June 2, 1990 – 2009 Release – [27 Pages, 1.1MB]
Background I learned that in 2017, there was a presentation about the FOIA, for training purposes, that was given by Jennifer Black at the IRS. In May of 2018, I filed a FOIA request for all records relating to this presentation, including all training material, emails, etc. that related to the program. In late April of 2019, the IRS provided the below material. Document Archive 2017 FOIA Training Presentation by Jennifer Black at the IRS [24 Pages, 7.9MB]
Background The below document was obtained from the United States Air Force, under FOIA Case 2019-02596-F. It was digitized from microfilm, therefore, is slightly hard to read (but still very much legible.) It is archived here for reference. Document Archive Space Handbook: Astronautics and its Application, Circa 1959 [260 Pages, 42.5MB]