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WWII classified stuff
Posted by:
kurt
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Date: April 06, 2001 07:56PM
<HTML>Quite a bit of stuff is still classified from WWII.
Should it be classified is another story.
For whatever other failures he may have had, Bill Clinton was a godsend to WWII historians. By his initiative, vast amounts of crypto and other material from WWII has been declassified in the \'90\'s. Literally over 1,000,000 pages of ultra and other crypto material has been declassified by the NSA and is now available to historians. Other WWII info declassified in the \'90\'s includes bacteriological (sp?) and chemical war plans (see \'Codenamed Downfall\' for US plans to gas and drop anthrax on Japan - as wel as their plans to do the same to us - all based on declassified WWII documents released in the \'90\'s - previously there wasn\'t a hint about this plan in the public domain)
One can only assume that there is still a lot left undone. I believe that there are still hundreds of thousands of pages of crypto stuff to still to be processed for declassification still.
I have heard that even these declassified documents have parts removed. Names of spies, or those who revealed info under torture, but who may still be alive, for example.
And of course, the details of nuclear weapon design from the Manhatten project will remain classified forever. As it should.
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Should it be classified is another story.
For whatever other failures he may have had, Bill Clinton was a godsend to WWII historians. By his initiative, vast amounts of crypto and other material from WWII has been declassified in the \'90\'s. Literally over 1,000,000 pages of ultra and other crypto material has been declassified by the NSA and is now available to historians. Other WWII info declassified in the \'90\'s includes bacteriological (sp?) and chemical war plans (see \'Codenamed Downfall\' for US plans to gas and drop anthrax on Japan - as wel as their plans to do the same to us - all based on declassified WWII documents released in the \'90\'s - previously there wasn\'t a hint about this plan in the public domain)
One can only assume that there is still a lot left undone. I believe that there are still hundreds of thousands of pages of crypto stuff to still to be processed for declassification still.
I have heard that even these declassified documents have parts removed. Names of spies, or those who revealed info under torture, but who may still be alive, for example.
And of course, the details of nuclear weapon design from the Manhatten project will remain classified forever. As it should.
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