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CIA Releases 13M Pages of Declassified Documents Online (bbc.com) 88

About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate programme, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists. From a report on BBC: The move came after lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the CIA. The full archive is made up of almost 800,000 files. They had previously only been accessible at the National Archives in Maryland. The trove includes the papers of Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as several hundred thousand pages of intelligence analysis and science research and development.
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CIA Releases 13M Pages of Declassified Documents Online

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  • by TheFakeTimCook ( 4641057 ) on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:08PM (#53691123)
    ...Your Tax Dollars At Work!

    This oughta be FUN!!!
    • This oughta be FUN!!!

      Since you volunteered, please have a one page PowerPoint summary ready by Monday.

      • No problem. I can crank that out now.

        Slide one:

        tl;dr - A lot of shit happened. You won't care about most of it.

  • by ASDFnz ( 472824 ) on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:09PM (#53691127)

    I knew it!

    • by AHuxley ( 892839 ) on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:51PM (#53691935) Journal
      Yes the fun of foreign remote viewing. Stargate Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
      https://www.cia.gov/library/re... [cia.gov]
      • by johanw ( 1001493 )

        I knew it was real all the time! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

      • by rtb61 ( 674572 )

        Most of that stuff went off balance sheet for uses other than was intended, extortion and investments ie managing the funds of criminals with the off balance sheet CIA hedge funds taking a substantial portion of the profits and the targets accepting making very large deposits because they get some returns and it is better than nothing and losing all their ill gotten gains, also tied into some very disturbing sexual practices part of the extortion and partners in high crimes thing.

      • Well, I did explain it in google groups and still have more explanations AND the math is in my brain, indeed, how it works. You have some hints in the Deep Learning community. Nothing extraordinary... it is called SCHIZOPHRENIC HALLUCINATORY VISUAL DELUSIONS. BUt it is in fact someone WATCHING, SEEING and another one with a transparent brain RECEIVING and INTERPRETING THE SIGNAL. There are even some mechanics and their consequences (general equilibrium, etc.). No wonder... I do want to see what they have, s
  • That's what this is. $58 billion a year we spend on intelligence. The vast majority of it a complete and total waste of money.

    • These released documents were indeed wasted time and money... which is obviously why they were releasable in the first place. We can only speculate on the value of documents which are still deemed to be classified.

      • That's what this is. $58 billion a year we spend on intelligence. The vast majority of it a complete and total waste of money.

        These released documents were indeed wasted time and money... which is obviously why they were releasable in the first place. We can only speculate on the value of documents which are still deemed to be classified.

        An addendum: What might be more maddening to the conspiracy theorists, though, is that there are really no guarantees that the released documents are in full agreement with all of those classified and still unreleased intelligence documents... (evil grin)

        The truth is out there...

      • by AHuxley ( 892839 )
        Re "We can only speculate on the value of documents which are still deemed to be classified."
        The deep thinking around the Bay of Pigs?
        The full extent of Operation Paperclip? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
  • by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:20PM (#53691215)
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  • Just a quick browse of the CREST archive shows a number of items that are historically intriguing, be it the Berlin tunnel, formulae for invisible ink, OPSEC tutorials for the old OSS, and other items.

    The documentation about GITMO is also worth a look-see.

    Definitely stuff worth looking at, and some of it might be something worth having in an American History class.

  • The CIA must be one of the most evil organisation you Americans have.
    They are the private 'government overthrow agency' of big business.
    Watch you back Trump, if you try to dismantle them.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/a... [globalresearch.ca]

  • by Anonymous Coward
    This shower of new docs from the CIA is pure gold. A true golden shower of docs from the intelligence community, one might say. ;-)
  • It's always like that: '13 million pages released' . To place this in context you need some percentages, numbers to compare with, statistics. What's the yearly release rate, what's the yearly classifying rate. And with respects to levels of secrecy, because if it's always low level secrecy that's being released then you're not doing much either.

  • by LiquidMind ( 150126 ) on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @04:55PM (#53691957)

    I'm glad they released all this material, because *this* is chock-full of useful info....

    https://www.cia.gov/library/re... [cia.gov]

  • It's likely the entire StarGate/Remote Viewing program was a cover for NRO real Remote Viewing from space and other projects. Tell them we use ESP instead of solid science, engineering and technology.

    • by fedos ( 150319 )
      Kinda like the Brits protecting the secret of radar by saying that their improved ability to find and shoot down enemy planes at night was because they ate carrots.

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