The Department of Defense is attempting to buy up all copies of former Army Intelligence Officer Anthony Shaffer’s book, Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan – and the Path to Victory. The DIA objected to some of the information Shaffer wrote about his time on the front lines in Afghanistan; St. Martin’s Press will –apparently– release a censored version in the future. Shaffer has previously contended that identified Mohammad Atta as a potential terrorist before 11 September 2001.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal has used FOIA to uncover evidence that Ernest Withers – the photographer/civil rights activist known for covering the Little Rock Nine, the murder of Emmett Till, and the MLK Assassination – was actually an FBI informant.
This week’s declassified FBI file: Senator Ted Kennedy.
Foreign Policy has an interesting piece on the “World’s Worst Textbooks.”
An innovative website – agentura.ru/english – documents Russian intelligence issues and news. Journalist Andrei Soldatov profiles the different systems currently used by Russia and the United States to handle classified information leaks:
Give our fellow blogger Nate Jones’ opinion piece in the Brechner Report (The Back Page) a read.
And Walter Pincus is still on the march about military bands. The Skeptical Bureaucrat provides an alternate view.
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