Bernice Moore

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SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2010, Issue No. 36 May 5, 2010 Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ ** EPA SAID TO HAVE SUPPRESSED, MISCLASSIFIED RECORDS ** AFTER A SIX YEAR DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW, A NEW FRUS VOLUME ** GROUPS THANK SECDEF FOR UNCLASSIFIED NPR, STOCKPILE DATA EPA SAID TO HAVE SUPPRESSED, MISCLASSIFIED RECORDS Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency intentionally stopped keeping records concerning potentially hazardous landfills in New Mexico in order to circumvent the disclosure requirements of the Freedom of Information Act. They also marked unclassified records as "confidential" in order to restrict their dissemination, a report (pdf) from the EPA Inspector General found. One EPA official told the IG that "her section discontinued record keeping in favor of undocumented phone calls and conversations ... to prevent the production of documents.... [she] informed us that her section had discontinued record keeping... because of ... requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act" that had been filed by Citizens Action New Mexico, a public interest group investigating potential contamination of Albuquerque's groundwater. The Inspector General report said that failure to document agency activities is a violation of EPA policy and federal law, which require the preparation and preservation of "adequate and proper" records of agency functions, decisions and transactions. Another EPA official "withheld [a document] from the public by marking it Confidential, a security classification category" even though it "contained no classified information." Officials said they only meant to indicate that the document was a deliberative draft, not that it was classified. But the IG said that too is a violation of agency policy, which prohibits the use of classification markings on unclassified records. The Inspector General said that because of defective record keeping, it was unable to determine whether EPA oversight of the New Mexico landfills was actually satisfactory or not. In a response to the IG, the regional EPA office firmly "denied its staff took inappropriate steps to withhold information from the public." But the EPA response "did not address evidence presented in the report that ... staff intentionally stopped documenting discussions to avoid responding to the public's FOIA requests," the IG countered. The EPA also replied that "the term 'confidential' is commonly used throughout the Agency for many documents" and does not imply that the documents are classified. But if so, this practice is "in violation of EPA security policies," the IG said, since the "confidential" label is strictly reserved for classified records. In a lengthy reply appended to the IG report, the regional EPA office said it did not concur with the findings or the recommendations of the Inspector General, and that local EPA officials had done nothing wrong. Because of the non-concurrence and the resulting impasse, the issue will be elevated to the EPA deputy administrator for resolution. See "Region 6 Needs to Improve Oversight Practices," Office of Inspector General, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, April 14, 2010. The IG report was first reported by John Fleck of the Albuquerque Journal on April 16, and was also covered by Superfund Report on May 3. From a secrecy policy point of view, the new report illustrates the potential for active Inspector General oversight of agency classification practices, but also the possible limitations of such oversight. The IG pursued its mandate fearlessly and relentlessly, and presented its conclusions forthrightly, even though they were unwelcome to the agency. On the other hand, the IG investigation did not succeed in resolving the issues it raised, at least not yet. Worse, "the estimated cost of this report... is $272,846," the 28-page IG report stated, which is equivalent to an astounding and unsustainable $10,000 per page. AFTER A SIX YEAR DECLASSIFICATION REVIEW, A NEW FRUS VOLUME The latest volume of the official "Foreign Relations of the United States" (FRUS) series was published by the State Department yesterday on the topic of Korea, 1969-1972. It covers U.S. relations with the Republic of Korea as well as disputes with North Korea during the Nixon Administration. Remarkably, declassification of the 489-page FRUS volume (pdf) took no less than six years. "The declassification review of this volume, which began in 2003 and was completed in 2009, resulted in the decision to withhold 1 document in full, excise a paragraph or more in 5 documents, and make minor excisions of less than a paragraph in 17 documents," according to the Preface of the new volume. Another FRUS volume on Japan during the same period also entered declassification review in 2003, but has still not emerged into the light of day. This is no way to run a history program, historians and archivists agree. But without profound changes in declassification procedures the current backlog of records awaiting declassification is going to grow, not shrink, said Michael J. Kurtz of the National Archives. The Archives typically processes 11 million pages per year for declassification, Mr. Kurtz told the Public Interest Declassification Board on April 22, but it takes possession of an additional 15 million pages of classified records each year, for a net increase in classified historical files. In December 2009, President Obama ordered that the backlog of more than 400 million pages of 25 year old classified records must be declassified and made publicly available by the end of December 2013. Meeting that deadline will require the new National Declassification Center to increase the current declassification capacity tenfold to 100 million pages per year, Mr. Kurtz said. To achieve this ambitious goal, the Archives is subjecting its declassification practices to a "business process reengineering" review that is supposed to eliminate repetitious, wasteful or counterproductive declassification activities and improve productivity. GROUPS THANK SECDEF FOR UNCLASSIFIED NPR, STOCKPILE DATA Leaders of more than a dozen public interest organizations and professional societies wrote to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to applaud two recent achievements in nuclear weapons transparency: the publication of the Nuclear Posture Review Report for the first time in unclassified format and the disclosure of the size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. "We believe that the public release of the unclassified NPR Report is a significant and long-overdue step in the maturation of our national nuclear policy," the public interest groups wrote. "Release of the unclassified NPR Report will not resolve the continuing debate over the future of nuclear weapons policy, but it will enable it to proceed on a more informed basis." "Similarly, the declassification of the current nuclear stockpile is an historic milestone both in nuclear weapons policy and in classification policy.... We believe this disclosure will serve to strengthen what should be an international norm of increasing transparency on nuclear matters. By leading through example, we hope the U.S. action will elicit a response in kind from other nuclear nations." "We also look forward to further steps, including the Department's future implementation of the Fundamental Classification Guidance Review that was required by the President's executive order.... This initiative should help to eliminate other obsolete or unnecessary classification restrictions." The May 4 letter was coordinated by OpenTheGovernment.org. _______________________________________________ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists. The Secrecy News Blog is at: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/

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''But CIA (and Dulles) always faulted him for this.'' stephen that could be as they never took responsibility themselves...no matter what.. videos on the left... http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section...p;article=67036 b

JACK AM POSTING A FEW MORE ...FOR THOSE INTERESTED...B

The wanted persons in this are both slender white males about 30, 5-feet-10, 165, carrying what looks to be a thirty-thirty or some type of Winchester. They look eerily alike. One left in a light colored rambler station wagon being driven by a Mexican or a Cuban. The other boarded a bus. "The prints lifted from the thirty-thirty match those of Malcolm Wallace" said securtiy guard, Gary Mack. Curator Mack has been moonlighting as a security guard since interest in the "Oswald done it all by his lonesome" shrine has diminished during the recent recession. According to sources, lack of interest is more due to disappointment in those seeking the truth than it is due to the recession. :lol: The burglars wrecked their truck leaving the scene. The safe was recovered and the truck seized. A special President's Commission will be formed to investigate. :lol: finally a crime at the 6th floor museum, other than someone trying to burn it down some years back... this is from tree frog and lisa pease...To: Tree Frog; LISA PEASE - JFK Subject: Re: FW: Burglars steal safe in overnight break-in at Dallas' Sixth Floor Museum There's a report on Channel 8 news tonight where Commissioner John Wiley Price suggests it was an inside job. Security cameras were turned off. I wonder about the internet camera in the 6th Floor window. The report says they were stopped by a security guard who fired at them. The vehicle, with temporary plate shown in the picture, had been stolen. They say the entire collection is intact and secure. Tree Frog wrote: DA Watkins had a choice, and said he would turn over the contents of the [secret room safe] to the 6th Floor. This burglary would be a valid reason to send the original files to NARA and backup copies to the 6th Floor. I wonder if he recently shipped the safe to Gary Mack. If so, it would be a suspicious burglary in my opinion. One way to make these new files vanish, before they are ever examined. Fortunately there were armed guards there. Why would a safe belonging to the 6th floor be on the first floor? es From: Lisa Pease [mailto:lpease@gte.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 12:11 PM To: treefrog@ix.netcom.com Cc: treefrog@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: FW: Burglars steal safe in overnight break-in at Dallas' Sixth Floor Museum I'd sure like to know what was in the safe, or what they THOUGHT was in the safe! Lisa Pease lpease@gte.net Blog: http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com Site: http://www.realhistoryarchives.com Book: The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X May 4, 2010 05:25:50 AM, treefrog@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >Burglars steal safe in overnight break-in at Dallas' Sixth Floor Museum > >07:18 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 > >Photo here: > >http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/050510dnme >tsixthfloor.1500a362.html > >http://tinyurl.com/2awfsaf > >If the large link fails to open, please use the Tiny URL below it. > > > > From Staff Reports > >Burglars struck the Sixth Floor Museum in downtown Dallas this morning, >yanking a safe out of the gift shop before running away when they were >confronted by a security guard. > >The incident began about 4:30 a.m. when two men in an old Dodge pickup >used a winch in the truck bed to remove the safe from the museum >dedicated to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. > >A Dallas County security officer spotted the two men while they were >still in the parking lot. When the pickup drove toward him, he fired at >the suspects, who crashed onto a sidewalk. > >The two men then abandoned the undrivable pickup and fled on foot. They >remain at large. A detailed description of the suspects was no available. > >No injuries were reported, and there was no indication that the burglars >took any of the museum's exhibits. > >Dallas police and sheriff's deputies are still at the scene in the 400 >block of Elm Street. > >-- > > > Regards, TOM BLACKWELL, PO Box 25403, Dallas, Texas 75225 > http://DemocraticResearch.Org > > > > and the photo of the truck snaggled....b

john the comp was created by james richards, you might contact him with any questions that you have on those included......b

CIA "Fronts" We don't neccesarily vouch for this list, and might take issue with some of the details on how the list was constructed, but this is certainly the most comprehensive and complete listing of CIA proprietary "front" operations we have seen http://web.archive.org/web/20020203195715/...tract/front.htm FROM WAY BACK...B

Bill.....fyi....the feiman report on the cbs and abc specials covering the w/cs lone assassin..b

Hi Jack ; I believe this is your work, it may show clearer the distances between the subjects...thanks..take care...b

THANKS BILL AND MILES... B

BILL RECALL THE BOOK YOU QUOTED AND LINKED TO WHEN YOU BEGAN YOUR OSWALD IS INNOCENT LONG THREAD, WHICH DOES NOT COME UP FOR ME ON A SEARCH DARN, THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY A VERY YOUNG MAN AT THE TIME, THE BASIC SKETCH I BELIEVE IS IN THAT BOOK, THE BOOK IS ALSO FREE ON THE WEB BUT I CANNOT FIND IT, AS MY GREY CELLS REFUSE TO GRANT ME THE NAME OF SAID BOOK TODAY, ONE OF THOSE, I AM THINKING THAT MARTIN HINDRICHS OR ANOTHER OF THE FELLAS AT DUNCAN'S FORUM, TOOK IT AND RESEARCHED IMPROVING ON IT GREATLY THAT IS WHERE I OBTAINED A COPY..MARTIN ?? BILL DID YOU NOT GET MY RETURN EMAIL ?? best b LAWDY I FOUND IT WILL.... "PRESUMED GUILTY, How and why the Warren Commission framed Lee Harvey Oswald. Factual account based on the Commission's public and private documents", by Howard Roffman 1976 http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/PG/ SHEESH...B THE MAP IS IN THE BOOK BUT NOT THAT I CAN FIND IN THE ON LINE BOOK...http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/PG/PGchp8.html MARTIN OR DUNCAN CAN YOU HELP US OUT HERE With THIS MAP PoSTED and by whom on your site...many thanks...b OSWALDS ACTIONS AFTER CHAPTER

HI TERRY I WONDERED ABOUT THEM NOT FINDING OUT RE THIS REMARK..??''Ms. Bush also suggests, apparently for the first time, that she, Mr. Bush, and several members of their staff may have been poisoned during a visit to Germany for a G8 Summit. They all became mysteriously sick, and the president was bedridden for part of the trip. The Secret Service investigated the possibility they were poisoned, she writes, but doctors could only conclude that they all contracted a virus. After noting several high-profile poisonings, she wrote, “we never learned if any other delegations became ill, or if ours, mysteriously, was the only one.IF THERE HAD BEEN I THINK THEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE INFORMATION...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36818869/ns/po...new_york_times/ Laura Bush breaks silence on fatal crash Ex-first lady suggests she and George W. Bush may have been poisoned...

Children's Tylenol and Other Drugs Recalled The McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit of Johnson & Johnson has voluntarily begun a recall of certain children's over-the-counter liquid medicines because of manufacturing deficiencies, the Food and Drug Administration said Saturday. The deficiencies may affect the potency, purity or quality of the products, the agency said in a statement. Consumers should stop using certain lots of infants' and children's Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl products because some of them may contain too much of the active ingredient, McNeil said in a statement late Friday. Read More: http://www.nytimes.com?emc=na

WHERE DO YOU CLICK ON THE INTERVIEWS DR.JIM I CANNOT GET ANY TO WORK, THEY ARE LIKE JUST PHOTOS..NO LINKS...THANKS B I BELIEVE THIS LINK WILL TAKE YOU TO THE VIDEOS FYI

CIA DOCUMENTS SHOW U.S.A NEVER BELIEVED GARY POWERS SHOT DOWN. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle7113512.ece

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35 YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF SAIGON........... http://upcoming.current.com/search?q=The+V...+fall+of+Saigon LIFE MAGAZINE SPECIAL EDITION... http://www.life.com/archive/newsletter/view/772 B..

National Security Archive Update, April 30, 2010 HISTORIC DISSIDENT JOURNAL PUBLISHED ONLINE Original Russian-Language "Problems of Eastern Europe" Connected Soviet, Eastern and Western Publics New Russia Web Page Features Digitized Soviet Documents On Missile Crisis, Afghanistan, End of Cold War, and Dissidents From National Security Archive Collections English introduction - http://www.nsarchive.org/rus New Russian-language page - http://www.nsarchive.org/rus/Index.html Washington, DC, April 30, 2010 - A rare complete series of the historic dissident journal "Problems of Eastern Europe" achieved its first-ever online publication today as part of the new Russian-language Web pages of the National Security Archive, also featuring hundreds of digitized facsimiles of declassified Soviet-era documents on topics such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War, and dissident movements in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Introduced on the Archive site by long-time editors Larisa and Frantisek Silnicky, "Problems of Eastern Europe" published throughout the 1980s a wide range of Soviet, Eastern European, and ultimately even Western reformist thinking, in order to make connections between those various publics and overcome the information barriers that especially hindered the development of dissident and oppositionist ideas. The new Russian-language Web pages, compiled and edited by the Archive's director of Russia Programs, Svetlana Savranskaya, together with technical editor Rinat Bikineyev, also include the most sought-after primary sources in Russian from the Archive's extensive collections, ranging from the diary of top Gorbachev aide and long-time Central Committee official Anatoly Chernyaev, to the scholarly collection compiled by the late Sergo Mikoyan based on his father Anastas Mikoyan's experience as a leading Soviet Politburo member, to the specialized collections developed by Archive staff on such topics as the Soviet side of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet invasion and occupation and withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the surveillance and repression of dissidents such as the Moscow Helsinki Group. The site also features a new "document of the month," the original "sovershenno sekretno" (top secret) transcript of the Soviet Politburo discussion 30 years ago of the Afghanistan war, which reads in parts as if lifted from current international debates over progress or the lack thereof in the current U.S. and NATO intervention in Afghanistan. Today's publication of primary sources in their original Russian fulfills one of the major goals of the Archive's Russia and Eurasia Programs, which is to increase public and scholarly access to original sources especially to younger scholars throughout the former Soviet space. In recent weeks, the Russian government has posted online the declassified archive of Soviet documents related to the Katyn massacre of Polish officers by Stalin's NKVD, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has endorsed the opening of archives from the Soviet period, and noted Russian expert Dmitri Trenin has called for archival openings as part of a new Russian foreign policy emphasis on cooperative security. English-language publications of the Archive's Russia and Eurasia Programs include more than two dozen Electronic Briefing Books of key U.S. and Soviet documents (in translation) covering major Cold war topics and events such as the series of superpower summits featuring Presidents Reagan and Bush with Soviet general secretary Gorbachev, as well as the new book from Central European University Press, "Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989," edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton and Vladislav Zubok. English introduction - http://www.nsarchive.org/rus New Russian-language Web page - http://www.nsarchive.org/rus/Index.html ________________________________________________________ THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A tax-exempt public charity, the Archive receives no U.S. government funding; its budget is supported by publication royalties and donations from foundations and individuals.

FROM JOHN WOODS ORIGINALLY THANKS, EMPTY 6TH FLOOR FOR RENOVATIONS...B THERE IS SOME INFO IN MANCHESTER'S ''DEATH OF A PRESIDENT'' ON THE 6TH FLOOR...PAGE 115 IS QUITE INTERESTING AS A START...

THERE ARE A FEW HERE THAT SHOW PART OF THE CEILING AND TAKEN FROM IN FRONT OF THE PILLARS...I HAVE ONE SHOWING THE WHOLE EMPTY 6TH FLOOR EMPTY FOR RENOVATIONS BUT THE UPLOAD IT TOO LARGE I WILL TRY TO MAKE IT SMALLER...SOME FOR NOW..B

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=11401 Justice Dept. subpoenas reporter over CIA sources Keywords: CIA; International; Justice/FBI; reporters privilege; subpoena The Obama Justice Department has decided to continue the Bush administration's quest to compel a New York Times reporter to testify about confidential sources in a book he published about the CIA, The New York Times reported. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has renewed a January 2008 subpoena seeking the confidential sources of James Risen, a Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for articles exposing the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program. He was subpoenaed in connection with a book he published in 2006, "State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration."

btw for any interested here is today's from the n/a National Security Archive Update, April 29, 2010 BREAKING DOWN SOVIET MILITARY SECRECY Archive publishes documents from "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy," the new book by David E. Hoffman, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. For more information, contact: David E. Hoffman hoffmand@washpost.com http://www.nsarchive.org b