Background Excerpt from the document: “Soviet statements indicate that the Soviets are planning a manned Mars mission from which they hope to derive world acclaim and prestige. Because all the technologies needed for such a flight have not yet been perfected, the Soviets have not committed themselves to a launch date. Our strongest, current indicators of Soviet plans for a manned mission to Mars are the long-duration stays in space by cosmonauts and the Soviet program to develop magnetoplasma dynamic thrusters for long duration space propulsion.” In March of 2018, The Black Vault filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request to…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Numerous human radiation experiments have been performed in the United States, many of which were funded by various U.S. government agencies such as the United States Department of Defense and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Experiments included, but were not limited to: – irradiating the heads of children – feeding radioactive material to mentally disabled children – exposing U.S. soldiers and prisoners to high levels of radiation – irradiating the testicles of prisoners, which caused severe birth defects – exhuming bodies from graveyards to test them for radiation (without the consent of the families of the deceased) Below,…
Background This particular document was found, when I filed a FOIA request back on April 10, 2014, asking for: a copy of all records, electronic or otherwise, pertaining to the internal discussion by the National Security Agency on how the agency would deal with FOIA requests, the media, and any and all inquiries into the NSA after Edward Snowden released classified information. It took until 20 September 2017, but the NSA released the below document as responsive to the above. Document Archive NSA/CSS Media Engagement and Outreach Plan: September – December 2014 [21 Pages, 1.8MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nsa/NSAMediaPlan-SepDec2014.pdf FOIA Case File I…
Background Before the Presidential Daily Briefs (PDBs) that began in 1964, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) published the Daily Summary Reports. These reports began in February of 1946, and offered intelligence briefs from around the globe. Below, you will find various issues of the Daily Summary’s, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Document Archive Central Intelligence Agency Daily Summary Reports, The First 20 Ever Published [90 Pages, 13MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/CIA-DailySummary-First20.pdf
Background The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) can be a powerful tool. And with the past controversy about Hillary Clinton, and her use of a private e-mail server (thus negating the reach of the FOIA), I thought it might be fun to start filing requests, for high ranking government officials, and see what they are talking about behind the scenes. In this particular case? What IRS Commissioner John Koskinen e-mails contained — that had the word MORON. Although primarily not too interesting, as many of the documents were responsive that had the word MORONEY, there are some attachments that may…