Posted on 05/02/2021 6:48:24 PM PDT by PROCON
Never heard of it, but WOW. What could they have been assigned to do that was so weighty, it’s still being buried by the military 60 years later? Even in hindsight, if they were there acting as intel for the CIA or whomever, it would be old news, a piece of Cold War history. It’s hard to grasp that whatever it was they were up to then would have some sort of active relevance today.
flr
I know some Comms techs were in a Middle East country around the 1970’s with no IDs.
Wow, I never heard of this before! Thank you for sharing!
Flying Tigers and Air America...
First active members of SOG?
The relevance is likely that the spy agencies are ,and have been for decades, ignoring American and international laws .
“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.
To continue with my post #28, I never knew about the EO until I was hounding INSCOM for information, and they called me and discussed the issue, where they guy was nice enough to clue me in.
Makes you really wonder how many great patriots, men and women, are lost to our history, covered by the Top Secret label that keeps all the facts, known and unknown from the nation and their families, even after decades. How can something that happened during the Cold War be so secret now, 30 years since the fall of the Soviets, for the moment, but they could at least tell the families.
“I have my dad’s dog tags,” Myers said. “That’s not a military mission.”
Don’t forget that family members are now passed off as experts, especially the mothers of the “victims”. It doesn’t matter about her education, experience, nor the complexity of the issue at hand. (/mild sarc)
I did things that will remain classified forever.
Yeah, I know. Some things have to be kept secret as the means to get info remains the same sometimes. Some things from WWII remain secret for the Brits. Watched a show some months ago about secret actions then are still secret. 70 years later after a war we won are secret. Must be some real touchy events that need to be kept secret.
I find it asinine that the government keeps classified items that basically have no reason to be anymore. I am of zero knowledge or authority to say what can or cannot but my cynical side says government never wants to admit culpability and is lazy and uncaring.
I think you’re right on the money.
Where was Biden March 15, 1962?
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