Oldest - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive Discover the Truth Mon, 18 May 2015 03:09:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-siteicon-2-150x150.jpg Oldest - The Black Vault https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive 32 32 87123917 Oldest Record on File at the National Security Agency (NSA) https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/oldest-record-on-file-at-the-national-security-agency-nsa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oldest-record-on-file-at-the-national-security-agency-nsa Mon, 18 May 2015 00:08:20 +0000 http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/?p=1689 Under the Freedom of Information Act, you can request quite a few different things. Most commonly, is requesting information on certain projects, operations or investigations by the government and military. However, in this request, I asked the National Security Agency (NSA) for their oldest document on record. Nothing specific – just whatever the oldest document [...]

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]]> Under the Freedom of Information Act, you can request quite a few different things. Most commonly, is requesting information on certain projects, operations or investigations by the government and military.

However, in this request, I asked the National Security Agency (NSA) for their oldest document on record. Nothing specific – just whatever the oldest document was.  This request was filed in November of 2013. This is what I asked for:

I respectfully request a copy of the oldest document, report, or letter, chronologically, that your agency currently archives.

After some wait, they wanted me to clarify what I was looking for. Not sure what part of the original request was confusing, but, alas, they asked:

 – Are you seeking the oldest NSA record that we currently hold in our Archives?

My answer was simply, “Yes.”

After waiting another 19 months, I finally received the document.

 The Oldest Document the NSA Has On File, according to FOIA Case 75793A

 

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