Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=93150 Kathimerini ATHENS, MONDAY, JULY 30, 2001 A US history of Greece is kept secret A US State Department documentary history covering Greece, Turkey and Cyprus in the mid-1960s is one of two volumes that the Central Intelligence Agency is trying to suppress, an academic research group in the United States has charged. The other, which was released inadvertently, documents some American responsibility for the murder of thousands of Indonesian communists at the same time. The National Security Archive, a nonprofit research group at George Washington University, said on its website (www.nsarchive.org) on Friday that the CIA is "stalling" the two reports, "even though the documents included in the volumes were officially declassified in 1998 and 1999, according to public State Department records." The story was reported in Saturday's Washington Post. The paper quoted a CIA spokesman, Mark Mansfield, denying the agency's sole responsibility. "The notion that the CIA has unilaterally blocked the release of these histories is simply not the case," he said. "We work closely with the State Department on these matters. All of us are intent on complying with the law, while at the same time protecting classified information that if disclosed could be damaging to us." The documentary history dealing with Greece, Cyprus and Turkey was printed in February 2000 but is locked up at the Government Printing Office under the label, "Embargo: This publication cannot be released." Officials declined to say why, the Post reported. The National Security Archive presented a State Department Historical Advisory Committee summary in September 1, 1999, saying that the CIA completed its review of the Cyprus-Greece-Turkey volume on May 14, 1999 and that it was expected to be published by December that year. The volume is part of the prestigious series, Foreign Relations of the United States. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
