FAS Asks Army to Restore Public Access to Military Intelligence
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FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS T: 202/546-3300 1725 DeSales St NW #600 Washington, DC 20036 www.fas.org F: 202/675-1010 [email protected] Board of Sponsors (Partial List) *Sidney Altman March 31, 2009 *Philip W. Anderson (202)454-4691 *Kenneth J. Arrow *Julius Axelrod *David Baltimore *Baruj Benacerraf Office of the Chief, Military Intelligence *Hans A. Bethe *J. Michael Bishop ATTN: ATZS-MI *Nicolaas Bloembergen *Norman Borlaug Fort Huachuca, AZ 85613 *Paul Boyer Ann Pitts Carter *Owen Chamberlain Morris Cohen Dear Sir/Madam: *Stanley Cohen Mildred Cohn *Leon N. Cooper This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act, as amended. *E. J. Corey *James Cronin *Johann Deisenhofer Ann Druyan We request a softcopy of all issues of Military Intelligence Professional *Renato Dulbecco John T. Edsall Bulletin (MIPB) beginning with the first issue of CY 2006 and up to the Paul R. Ehrlich George Field present. *Val L. Fitch *Jerome I. Friedman John Kenneth Galbraith In the past, MIPB was released to the public and posted online, but it has *Walter Gilbert *Donald Glaser recently been moved behind a password-protected portal (the Intelligence *Sheldon L. Glashow Marvin L. Goldberger Knowledge Network) and current issues of the publication are no longer *Joseph L. Goldstein *Roger C. L. Guillemin publicly accessible through the Army. *Herbert A. Hauptman *Dudley R. Herschbach *Roald Hoffmann John P. Holdren Our intention is to restore public access to the MIPB by posting recent issues *David H. Hubel on the website of the Federation of American Scientists (www.fas.org). We *Jerome Karle *H. Gobind Khorana therefore request that these documents be provided in PDF or HTML format. *Arthur Kornberg *Edwin G. Krebs *Willis E. Lamb *Leon Lederman Alternatively, we request that you post them on an Army or Army-affiliated *Edward Lewis *William N. Lipscomb web site that is publicly accessible. Jessica T. Mathews Roy Menninger Matthew S. Meselson * *Franco Modigliani *Mario Molina Philip Morrison Stephen S. Morse We further request a waiver of production costs, on the following grounds: *Joseph E. Murray Franklin A. Neva *Marshall Nirenberg *Douglas D. Osheroff The requested materials are the subject of public interest and serve to inform *Arno A. Penzias *Martin L. Perl the public regarding Army activities. They are not currently available to the George Rathjens *Burton Richter public. The Federation of American Scientists will make them publicly *Richard J. Roberts available without charge to all interested parties. *J. Robert Schrieffer Andrew Sessler *Phillip A. Sharp George A. Silver If fee waiver is denied, I hereby agree to pay assessable fees up to $50 for a *Richard E. Smalley *Robert M. Solow softcopy of the requested documents. *Jack Steinberger *Henry Taube *James Tobin *Charles H. Townes Thank you for your assistance. Frank von Hippel Robert A. Weinberg *Steven Weinberg Board of Directors Victor Weisskopf *Torsten N. Wiesel Frank von Hippel Steve Fetter Harold Feiveson Henry Kelly Alfred Yankauer Chair Vice Chair Secretary-Treasurer President Herbert F. York Ruth S. Adams Richard Garwin Michael Mann William Revelle Gregory Simon * Nobel Laureate David Albright Marvin Goldberger Hazel O’Leary Shankar Sastry Lynn Sykes Bruce Blair Kenneth Luongo Jane Owen Jonathan Silver Gregory van der Vink Ex officio: Carl Kaysen, Robert Solow ________________________ Steven Aftergood Project on Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists 1725 DeSales Street NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 email: [email protected] voice: (202)454-4691 web: www.fas.org/sgp .