{"id":508,"date":"2015-03-03T00:58:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T00:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=508"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T13:30:09","slug":"documents-released-to-former-secretary-donald-rumsfeld-for-his-book-known-and-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/documents-released-to-former-secretary-donald-rumsfeld-for-his-book-known-and-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents Released to Former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his book Known and Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-511\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0e92d40eff495194fa4f7d7363311ab6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0e92d40eff495194fa4f7d7363311ab6-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Rumsfeld\" width=\"171\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0e92d40eff495194fa4f7d7363311ab6-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0e92d40eff495194fa4f7d7363311ab6-150x155.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0e92d40eff495194fa4f7d7363311ab6-450x466.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0e92d40eff495194fa4f7d7363311ab6-145x150.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/0e92d40eff495194fa4f7d7363311ab6.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Rumsfeld<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The below, are the records that Rumsfeld requested, and received, under FOIA and MDR.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/dod\/rumsfeld\/DocumentsReleased_to_Rumsfeld_Under_FOIA.pdf\">Documents Released to Secretary Rumsfeld Under FOIA<\/a>\u00a0[95 Pages, 2.8mb]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/dod\/rumsfeld\/DocumentsReleasedToSecretaryRumsfeldUnderMDR.pdf\">Documents Released to Secretary Rumsfeld Under Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR)<\/a> [1,362 Pages, 47.2mb]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/dod\/rumsfeld\/Index_ofDocsReleased_toSecRumsfeldUnderMDR.pdf\">Index of documents Released to Secretary Rumsfeld Under Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR)<\/a> [7 Pages, 0.2mb]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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