Background This document was first released in 2003, though heavily redacted. In February of 2018, I requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) of the record, in hopes it would be further declassified. It was not, in fact, the redactions were nearly identical, with the exception that one of the document’s footers had less redacted, but does not add anything new. Both records are archived below for reference… the latest release, from 2018, is listed first. Document Archive 2018 Release: China: The Galaxy-II Computer and Nuclear-Related Research, August 3, 1994 [12 Pages, 1.5MB] https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/chinagalaxy-ii.pdf 2003 Release: China: The Galaxy-II Computer and…
Author: John Greenewald
Background General John William Vogt Jr. (March 18, 1920 – April 16, 2010) was a flying ace of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II who later achieved general rank in the United States Air Force during the Cold War period. He was commander Allied Air Forces Central Europe and commander in chief United States Air Forces in Europe at Ramstein Air Base, Germany in the 1970s. Vogt was born on March 18, 1920 and died April 16, 2010. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Yale University and his master of arts from Columbia University.…
Document Archive Integrity Committee – Annual Reports – 2006 – April 2016 [44 Pages, 1.2MB] https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/fbifiles/integritycommittee-fbi1.pdf
Background Beam-powered propulsion, also known as directed energy propulsion, is a class of aircraft or spacecraft propulsion that uses energy beamed to the spacecraft from a remote power plant to provide energy. The beam is typically either a microwave or a laser beam and it is either pulsed or continuous. A continuous beam lends itself to thermal rockets, photonic thrusters and light sails, whereas a pulsed beam lends itself to ablative thrusters and pulse detonation engines. The rule of thumb that is usually quoted is that it takes a megawatt of power beamed to a vehicle per kg of payload while it…
Background “The Green Book” is a set of guidelines for agency officials in charge of responding to FOIA requests, specifically about the proper procedures for processing requests for FBI documents or documents from any other agency under the purview of Department of Justice. The Green Book also contains volumes of numbered memos from directors and other officials in the agency’s FOIA department, instructing FOIA officials on how to respond to requests regarding certain procedures the FBI conducts, organizations under surveillance by the agency, and other persons and events of interest. I first requested this back in June of 2016, and…