From: "mart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fw:-Federation of American Scientists - " STATE DEPT MULLS "BOOK
BURNING"
Forward from mart.
Please distribute widely.
Few Americans know anything about the history of American involvement in
post WWII Greece. From the support of the British attack and occupation
immediately *after* the war, that cost the lives or the forced exile of
tens of thousands of Greek patriots, or of direct American involvement from
the 1950's through the 60's
(including the use of terrorism, by the way), to manipulate elections and
subvert democracy.
When didn't prove enough for the CIA, their activities culminated in a
Fascist military coup in 1973, similar to the one they staged Chile, that
overthrew the democratically elected, parliamentary government. I guess
Americans are only supposed to know the myths of their history and not the
truths.
mart.
"The truth! You can't handle the truth!"
Jack Nicholson as Colonel Nathan R. Jessup
in the film "A Few Good men".
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 4:54 AM
Subject: STATE DEPT MULLS "BOOK BURNING"
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SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
September 21, 2001
Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation
of American Scientists.
STATE DEPT MULLS "BOOK BURNING"
The Department of State is under growing pressure from the Central
Intelligence Agency to destroy its inventory of an official history
of U.S. relations with Greece during the 1960s and to replace it with
a new, sanitized version.
Some 1500 copies of "Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS),
1964-1968, volume XVI" on US policy towards Greece, Cyprus, Turkey
have been printed. But they have been withheld from circulation
because of last minute concerns raised by the CIA.
The sticking point appears to be a handful of documents that allude
to CIA intervention in the electoral process in Greece some 35 years
ago. CIA officials claim that release of such documents could upset
current relations with Greece or even provide a pretext for
terrorism. Similar claims that delayed the release of another FRUS
volume on Indonesia earlier this year proved unfounded.
A CIA proposal to dispose of the existing inventory of the FRUS
volume on Greece and to reprint the volume without the offending
documents "has been bruited for weeks," according to one government
historian familiar with the situation.
"Every time the subject is raised in my presence, I mention those
dread words 'cover up.' Or at least they should be dread words. It
seems to me that the existence of the volumes is too well known.
Destroying them would be a huge public relations disaster for the
U.S. government," the historian said on September 20. "Book burning
is definitely not a politically correct thing to do."
"I don't know why the Agency is so over-the-top on this issue," the
historian said. "Maybe they really do know more than they're telling
us."
Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet has gotten
personally involved in the matter, attempting to enlist the help of
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in blocking release of the
official history.
According to one source, Mr. Tenet contacted Mr. Armitage to discuss
the matter as recently as the night of September 10, at a time when
his attention might have been more profitably directed elsewhere. A
State Department official would not confirm or deny that the
September 10 conversation took place.
The suppression of the FRUS volume was reported by the Washington
Post on August 17. It was discussed in an August 12 article in the
Greek press here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/08/gr081201.html
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