[Milsurplus] Listing of Classified/Restricted Documents at AFHRA

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Document 144377 dated 04-22-1920, Air Service Engineering Division = 
Report on Characteristics of Air Service Radio Apparatus

Sounds like an interesting document.

	Take Care!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ


On Jan 4, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Jim Klotz wrote:

> Hey Folks!  If you haven't heard about this, then you need to know of 
> it.
>
> I'm certain that students of military history will find a goldmine of 
> information
> among this material.  Also available on the web site are tips on how 
> to file
> Mandatory Declassification Requests to obtain material.
>
> Mike Ravnitzky has helped me personally several times in the past, and 
> all of us
> directly or indirectly.  He is a tireless and effective advocate for 
> openness in
> government.  He's gotten more stuff on more topics released than anyone
> else I know of.
>
> Mike has asked mw to pass this information along, and I'm asking that 
> you all
> forward this to anyone who may be interested.
>
> - Jim Klotz
>
> = = = = = = = = =
> Listing of Classified and Restricted Documents at the Air Force
> Historical Research Agency
>
> by Michael Ravnitzky , mikerav at mindspring.com
>
> http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/afhra/
>
> Over 500,000 documents cover almost every aspect of US military history
> from the 1920s to the early 1980s
>
> Very few of these documents have been released to the public
>
> In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by researcher
> Michael Ravnitzky, the Air Force Historical Research Agency - which
> maintains one of the largest repositories of US military historical
> documents - released in early 2001 a list of its still-classified and
> still-restricted documents. This unprecedented database contains
> information on well over *half a million* documents held by the agency.
>
> The list was released on a cumbersome data cartridge and stored in an
> awkward data format. The Memory Hole's tech guru Brett Milner has
> laboriously extracted and converted this massive file into a series of
> more manageable Excel spreadsheets.
>
> The 550,000+ documents are identified by call numbers, title, date,
> author, etc.; they include reports, memos, directives, histories, daily
> operations reports, oral histories, interviews, situation reports,
> intelligence summaries, speeches, chronologies, logs, minutes,
> briefings, correspondence, press clippings, newsletters, photos, 
> slides,
> audiotapes, and more. We have spotted documents that date back to the
> 1920s and some as recent as the early 1980s. (The FOIA request asked 
> the
> agency to limit the list to documents more than 20 years old.)
>
> Among the many, many areas covered are World War II, the Vietnam War
> (including Laos and Cambodia), the Korean War, the Cold War, the
> Balkans, specific aircraft and weapons systems, histories of bases and
> squadrons, accidents, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological warfare,
> space exploration, satellites, UFOs, NATO, and NORAD.
>
> There appear to be a large number of documents that are not designated
> as classified but are apparently limited or restricted for other
> reasons. While documents may be identified as classified or restricted,
> the passage of time as well as the presidential rules on protecting
> classified information make it somewhat likely that any particular
> document would now be declassified and/or released upon request.
>
> http://www.thememoryhole.org/mil/afhra/
>
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