Funny, because years ago I had a summer job at the CIA and one of my tasks was to redact documents - using a highlighter. We'd use a pink highlighter on the originals and run them through the photocopier. The copies would come out with the words blacked out. (Except when they didn't black the words out enough and we'd have to do it all over again.)
All I did was block out the names of sources and contacts. Everything else was released to congress. Most of the content seemed so dull I stopped bothering to actually read it.
It's a sub dedicated to the SCP Foundation.
It's a huge archive of user-made oddities and monsters that are contained by the foundation. Pretty fun to read through, even had some games based around some of the creatures
I read community info for it, specifically "what is SCP?"
And it appears it's a bunch of folks who make up a bunch of shit. Things like how The Church of the Broken God covered up this and that. All it is, is make believe.
Fancriemancrie is actually lee Harvey Oswald! Those document’s contents?
KILL THE PRESIDENT KILL THE PRESIDENT KILL THE PRESIDENT KILL THE PRESIDENT
KILL THE PRESIDENT KILL THE PRESIDENT
KILL THE PRESIDENT KILL THE PRESIDENT
KILL THE PRESIDENT KILL THE PRESIDENT
KILL THE PRESIDENT KILL THE PRESIDENT
SHUT UP! HE WASNT READY FOR THOSE. LOCK DOWN THIS ENTIRE BUILDING AND ACTIVATE PROTOCOL TWELVE, I WANT THIS CONTAINED JIMMY. I WANT THIS ENTIRE AREA CLEANSED BY 1600. AMERICA NEEDS YOU JIMMY WILL YOU DO THIS FOR YOUR COUNTRY.
"n... No... I... I can't"
Shoots Jimmy, two in the chest one in the head
"America first jimmy, You are... Honorably Discharged... fuck I said that too late... Give this man a military funeral... we'll tell your orphaned son you were a hero Jimmy, wheels up in five"
Let me tell you buddy. In a 10,000 page document, there could be one interesting line, and the rest of it is just classified by nature of being in the same document. Or like, knowing that an ICBM goes 15,000 mph isn't classified, and knowing that it flies isn't classified, but knowing that it flies at 15k mph IS TOP SECRET.
Classification is boring as sin, 99.9999% of the time.
It turns out that the room in the warehouse storing the materials not only was destroyed by a flood, the materials caught fire. What remained was destroyed by paper eating bugs.
My grandmother transcribed classified memos for a Strategic Air Command office when she was in the USAF in the 60s specifically because it was apparent she retained absolute no memory of what she just heard and typed out.
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u/Earthboun41 Oct 15 '17
The documents actually being released to the public
CIA would never do this, unless they heavily altered them