Background The fifth president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was internationally known for his use of chemical weapons in the 1980s against Iranian and Kurdish civilians during and after the Iran–Iraq War. In the 1980s he pursued an extensive biological weapons program and a nuclear weapons program, though no nuclear bomb was built. President Bush said that the biggest regret of his presidency was “the intelligence failure” in Iraq, while the Senate Intelligence Committee found in 2008 that his administration “misrepresented the intelligence and the threat from Iraq”. A key CIA informant in Iraq admitted that he lied about his allegations,…
Author: John Greenewald
Background This handbook is issued in accordance with Executive Order (E.O.) 13526, “Classified National Security Information” to provide guidance for the development of NASA security classification guides. Original Classification Authorities·are encouraged to publish Security Classification Guides (SCG) to facilitate a standardized a·nd efficient classification management program. A SCG provides detailed classification guidance on program specific information for use by derivative classifiers in applying appropriate security classification markings. The SCG is an invaluable tool created and approved personally and in writing by an Original Classification Authority (OCA) and published to facilitate the proper and uniform derivative classification of information. It is…
Background This document was obtained from the Department of Defense in April of 2018. It was a PDF presentation used at the 39th Meeting of the Principals. Held at London, United Kingdom on October 25-29, 2004. Document Archive Non-Atomic Military Research And Development (NAMRAD) – Anti-gravity, October 2004 [21 Pages, 5.5MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/dod/ADB333173.pdf
Background This memo was issued to provide the status of the “North Korea Nuclear Issue” back in 1992. I filed an MDR request on the record in February of 2018, as the original that I saw was heavily redacted. It appears it was reviewed late in 2017, therefore my MDR request was denied, but I was furnished a copy. Two years need to pass to request an MDR. Document Archive Memorandum, William T. Pendley to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Subject: North Korea Nuclear Issue – Where are We Now?, dated October 27, 1992 [6 Pages, 1.5MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/dod/18-M-0747.pdf
Background The following documents have been received under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and contain the “Congressional Correspondence Logs” for all communications between Congress, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Each log outlines who the correspondence was with, the date, and topic of the letter. Declassified Documents 2014-2015 FBI Congressional Correspondence Log – 2014-2015 Release #1 July 2017 [350 Pages, 187MB ] FBI Congressional Correspondence Log – 2014-2015 Release #2 November 2017 [5 Pages, 0.9MB ] 2013 FBI Congressional Correspondence Log – 2013 Release #1 November 2014 [286 Pages, 110MB ] FBI Congressional Correspondence Log – 2013 Release #2 January…