CLASSIFIED AND RESTRICTED DOCUMENTS LISTING FROM THE AFHRA

POSTED HERE:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/afhra/

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by researcher Michael
Ravnitzky, the Air Force Historical Research Agency - which maintains one of
the largest repositories of US military historical documents - released in
early 2001 a list of its still-classified and still-restricted documents.
This unprecedented database contains information on well over half a million
documents held by the agency.

The list was released on a cumbersome data cartridge and stored in an
awkward data format. The Memory Hole's tech guru Brett Milner has
laboriously extracted and converted this massive file into a series of more
manageable Excel spreadsheets.

The 550,000+ documents are identified by call numbers, title, date, author,
etc.; they include reports, memos, directives, histories, daily operations
reports, oral histories, interviews, situation reports, intelligence
summaries, speeches, chronologies, logs, minutes, briefings, correspondence,
press clippings, newsletters, photos, slides, audiotapes, and more. We have
spotted documents that date back to the 1920s and some as recent as the
early 1980s 1990s (even through the FOIA request asked the agency to limit
the list to documents more than 20 years old.)

Among the many, many areas covered are World War II, the Vietnam War
(including Laos and Cambodia), the Korean War, the Cold War, the Balkans,
Desert Storm, specific aircraft and weapons systems, histories of bases and
squadrons, accidents, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological warfare,
space exploration, satellites, UFOs, NATO, and NORAD.

There appear to be a large number of documents that are not designated as
classified but are apparently limited or restricted for other reasons. While
documents may be identified as classified or restricted, the passage of time
as well as the presidential rules on protecting classified information make
it somewhat likely that any particular document would now be declassified
and/or released upon request.

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