Not-So-Secret ‘Secrets’ The Pentagon Paid Thousands To Destroy

The Defense Department paid $47,000 [1] to destroy 9,500 unredacted copies of a former Army intelligence officer’s new memoir, The Associated Press reported this week. The Pentagon contended that the book, “Operation Dark Heart,” by Anthony Shaffer, contained intelligence secrets and has therefore sought to destroy copies that were published before the book was redacted.

But unredacted copies still exist [2]. The book had originally been cleared by the Army and advance copies had been sent out before the Pentagon decided the book contained classified material. The New York Times bought one of these copies online a few weeks ago [3], compared it to the redacted version, and noted that some of the secrets were, well, not so secret:

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