A few years ago I went though official channels and got a copy of AR
381-14 via a FOIA request, scanned it into Acrobat, and added comments
about the redacted portions and pointed to other government documents
that contained the "classified" information contained in the redacted
sections of AR 381-14, and where similar regulations form other agencies
contained word for word things they considered classified which the Army
did not. Thus, by examining on a word by word basis across over a dozen
regulations on the same topic, but a subject matter expert all of the
classified documents across all agencies can be reconstructed in their
entity.
This little fact did not amuse the Federal government at all, and within
days the copies which I had on my mailing list on Yahoo vanished, and
the removal entry could be found in the logs.
The same file was deleted from my website without a trace and while the
access logs showed a large number of hits from .mil and .gov sites
immediately before the last recorded downloads, nothign would be found
as to who had removed it, but there were a huge number or .gov and .mil
404 errors within minutes of it getting deleted, and then no more access
attempts for hours afterwards.
Copies which other people had on their websites suddenly vanished
without any reason or clue, but in all cases there was a flurry of
accessed to the file just prior to, and then failed access attempts just
afterwards documenting when the file got deleted. One minute it was
there, the next minute poof, nothing.
It is not illegal to circulate an unclassified document, or even a
redacted document, and it is not illegal to compile a horde of documents
on the subject matter to use the unclassified materials from one to
recreate the materials missing from the other, by someone who is skille
din the subject matter. Nor is it illegal to publish the completed
documents, make comments on it, point out holes in the policy or
regulation, or anything else about it as the regulation.
All this not withstanding, I was repeatedly contacted by the Army and
asked to return the original documents and to destroy all copies after I
published them on my website and I refused, then the FBI questioned me
about where I got the documents and tried to bully me over them, without
success, and I refused to stop circulating them.
I recently referred to AR 381-14 in a conversation with another TSCM
person and they mentioned that the copy I had on my website seemed to
have mysteriously been taken down while other were untouched (note,
there are over 65,000 pages on my website). So I went to upload a fresh
copy, and poof could find nothing on my local computers, and people who
I knew had copies on their websites now had dead links where the file
used to be (one of whom got hassled by the FBI about it, but also
refused to delete it).
I was able to find another copy, and posted back up to the website (for
like the 20th time), and reposted it back up to the mailing list, so now
over 2000 people have their own personal copies (again).
I also have the CIA Proceedural Guides 1, 2, 3 and a large number of
technical bulletins (some of which I was the original author) that have
been obtained as redacted and then recreated from unclassified secondary
open sources much to the great pissed-offed-ness of some .gov folks who
use the secrecy of the documents to line their pockets.
At present when I make a FOIA request for such things I am told the
documents simply does not exists, or that the agency refused to provide
the document to me due to my prior history of beign able to recreate
classified documents form unclassified documents, and have actually had
government agencies refuse to provide me with ANY document, of ANY sort
about them, on ANY subject after I was able to prove grave malfeasance
on the part of some of senior leadership to instructed their FIOA
officer to reject any query that I made abotu any subject, classified or
not.
The document has an interesting history.
-jma
James M. Atkinson wrote:
> Funny that this PDF files keeps getting lost so often.
>
> -jma
>
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"Leonardo da Vinci of Bug Sweeps and Spy Hunting"
Granite Island Group
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