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GadflyBytes's avatar

The concept of secret information so important to national security that it must be hidden away for multiple generations, in a democracy, is the biggest coup against democracy.

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TMH's avatar

I suspect your skepticism is correct. 63 years ago it was the same story: "The unknown objects are operating under intelligent control...I know that neither Russia nor this country had anything even approaching such high speeds and maneuvers," said former CIA Director R.H. Hillenkoetter in 1960, demanding a congressional investigation. Someone would have leaked something more substantive in the ensuing years, as with other topics.

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