Documents Released to Former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his book Known and Unknown

Donald Rumsfeld

While writing his book Known and Unknown, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got the Department of Defense to declassify records that supported factual statements in his book.

The below, are the records that Rumsfeld requested, and received, under FOIA and MDR.

Documents Released to Secretary Rumsfeld Under FOIA [95 Pages, 2.8mb]

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Documents Released to Secretary Rumsfeld Under Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) [1,362 Pages, 47.2mb]

Index of documents Released to Secretary Rumsfeld Under Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) [7 Pages, 0.2mb]

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This post was published on March 3, 2015 12:58 am

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