Security Threats

Something that happened earlier but may not have been noticed by the people of America. The CIA museum had refused to disclose a pamphlet that a certain organization, TheMemoryHole.org, has acquired through the Freedom of Information Act. Government tends to feel like these kind of things give away information that the public should not know or that terrorists may use. The pamphlet is titled, "Directorate of Science and Technology: People and Intelligence in the Service of Freedom." The idea for using science and technology in the intelligence process came after World War II. With the Cold War, science and technology gained a prominent role in intelligence. Since then, any means of gathering intelligence has been used.

The publication leaks information on how terrorists have been handled previously:

Terrorists have always operated in secrecy, in part because America and its allies devote advanced technical resources to uncovering and thwarting their plans. Technical experts called in after a terrorist incident provide valuable assistance to those who seek justice, but OTS [Office of Technical Services] experts in weapons, ordnance, electronics, and other fields also work in the shadows to prevent terrible calamities. To these subject matter experts accustomed to anonymity, it is a matter of pride that so few people know the details of their lifesaving contributions to terrorism. A few counterterrorism successes utilizing OTS products and expertise have been made public. Creating a dummy film production company in Hollywood, an OTS team rapidly delivered disguises and documents that made the escape of six U.S. diplomats from Iran possible. The Feb 2001 prosecution of a Libyan terrorist for the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing was based on the testimony of an OTS electronics expert who matched a circuit board fragment that survived the explosion with a timing device from an earlier Libyan terrorist attack thwarted by CIA.

What was in the CIA museum became considered as a threat of security. Alas, the Freedom of Information Act allows Americans to prevent government from hiding. It doesn't matter that this might've posed a security threat because anyone needing to know about the history of our intelligence that uses science and technology would've visited the museum to find out. Where there's a will there's a way and there was no way that government would keep this pamphlet from the public. We have a right to know how our intelligence is carried out especially since the 9/11 attacks. Below is the address for reading the entire pamphlet:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/spy/cia-museum/cia_museum_pamphlet.pdf