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Originally Posted by turbonium
Those are the points I was making, and they still stand. The documents exist, and they are still classified. I was not implying anything about his intentions beyond this.
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Yet you seem to be implying that the government is "hiding" something under the security classification. Frankly, bureacratic bumbling and institutional inertia are probably the main reason for any continuing classification. In any case, the messages pertaining to Pearl Harbor were decrypted and are available. The remainder are most likely of little interest.
As to the archive, it may now be available. Institutional inertia and lack of space seem to be the main reasons for the retention of classification. In another post on the Pearl Harbor Attacked site Jacobsen had this to say in 2002.
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Originally Posted by Phillip Jacobsen, LCDR USN (ret)
Stinnett appears to infer that the release of the Crane (Indiana) Naval Security Group Depository records was due to his FOIA requests. In fact, the declassification of these files was only awaiting the completion of Archives II at College Park, Maryland as there was insufficient space in the Washington, D.C. or Suitland NA facilities. Stinnett fails to mention that these files were "opened up" to a select number of other researchers besides himself including for one, Stephen Budiansky.
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As to the withholding of certain Crane (RG38) documents, my experience from many NA visits including the last one in September this year shows that relatively few such withdrawal requests are in evidence and I saw no indication that these few withdrawals were for any significant historical documents in the Pearl Harbor arena. Furthermore, Stinnett admitted he freely had a year's access to these documents and made thousands of copies of the documents he thought were significant to his revisionist conspiracy theory. I note he does not identify any specific document that has been "withdrawn." Therefore, I see little for him to complain of except to pound on his unsupported claims of continuing coverup.
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