Title A culture of secrecy : the government versus the people's right to know / edited by Athan G. Theoharis

Published Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1998

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Description viii, 245 pages ; 24 cm Contents 1. Introduction / Athan G. Theoharis -- 2. The Freedom of Information Act Versus the FBI / Athan G. Theoharis -- 3. The CIA and Secrecy / James X. Dempsey -- 4. "Not So Anonymous": Parting the Veil of Secrecy About the National Security Agency / Matthew M. Aid -- 5. "National Security" and Freedom of Information: The John Lennon FBI Files / Jon Wiener -- 6. Playing the Information Game: How It Took Thirteen Years and Two Lawsuits to Get J. Edgar Hoover's Secret Supreme Court Sex Files / Alexander Charns and Paul M. Green -- 7. The Endless Saga of the Nixon Tapes / Joan Hoff -- 8. The War over Secrecy: Democracy's Most Important Low-Intensity Conflict / Scott Armstrong -- 9. We Can't Yet Read Our Own Mail: Access to the Records of the Department of State / Page Putnam Miller -- 10. The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board / Anna Kasten Nelson Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Freedom of information -- United States -- Case studies. Government information -- United States -- Case studies. Security classification (Government documents) -- United States -- Case studies. Author Theoharis, Athan G. LC no. 98010670 ISBN 070060880X (cloth : alk. paper)

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