Interesting mystery. Why secret after all these years?
Thanks for posting.
“Why secret after all these years?”
You’d be surprised. I have some idea what was going on and what agency the missing were assigned to. Trust me, when you get to highly compartmentalized goodies, it’s classified until hell feezes over, and then some.
Classification is governed by an EO.
https://www.archives.gov/isoo/policy-documents/cnsi-eo.html
There’s a very interesting part in the EO that basically says the government can lie about documents.
“(a) An agency may refuse to confirm or deny the existence or nonexistence of requested records whenever the fact of their existence or nonexistence is itself classified under this order or its predecessors.”
I’ve actually been lied to in FOIA requests. It’s really entertaining. You ask a point blank request for documents, and they come back with an answer to a question you never asked. Repeat the request over and over, and get the same non-applicable answer over and over.