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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 7. december 2012 / Time Line December 7, 2012
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12/07/2012
U.S. Court of Appeals Rejects CIA's Motion to Squash
Lawsuit on Bay of Pigs History
National Security Archive Freedom of Information Case to Receive
Full Hearing
CIA and Justice Department Argued That Release of Draft History
Would "Confuse the Public"
Washington, DC, December 7, 2012 -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the D.C. Circuit yesterday rejected the CIA's attempt to shortcut
the National Security Archive's lawsuit under the Freedom of
Information Act to obtain the last still-secret history of the
disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
With the ruling, the Archive has moved a step closer to compelling
openness for the only remaining unreleased volume of a draft
history of the Bay of Pigs operation, written by a CIA staff
historian in the 1980s. One volume of the five-volume history
reached the public through the John F. Kennedy Assassination
Records Review Board's action in the 1990s; and the Archive filed
its FOIA lawsuit for the remaining volumes in April 2011, on the
50th anniversary of the failed CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba.
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