#declassified documents

[xdemonicheartx]

Hey besties check out this cute manual that was made available back in 2008 and had a recent update in February 2024 

[americanmarketplace]

The Black Vault – Document Archive . A must visit website !

[fry1957oil]

https://americasbestpics.com/video/7vIefrlf9?s=u

[mickmathersartblog]

"Bodies Recovered from the Rio Lujon"

digital collage & digital painting by Mick Mather

(click image to view actual size)

[herecomesthesound]

once again about to fight god WHY ARE THERE NOT MORE IMAGES OF RAY IN PARADE MAKEUP kms

[govpubsfinds]

The NSA Furby Memo (1999)

In 1999, the National Security Agency (NSA) issued a fascinating internal memo about an unexpected security threat: Furbies. The cuddly, owl-like toys, popular for their lifelike responses and "learning" abilities, were rumored to record conversations and repeat them—sparking concerns that they could compromise sensitive information.

However, what should have proven to be a simple internal affair turned into a comedy goldmine when the NSA's Furby ban was leaked to and subsequently picked up by media outlets, including The Washington Post and BBC News. This resulted in the Furby Memo of 1999, which has since been declassified via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

In an internal listserve discussion, NSA employees remark humorously on both the ban and the resulting media attention, with exchanges questioning whether the entire incident is "a little embarrassing to the agency" while others joked about the possibility of a "FURBYGATE."

Although later proven that Furbies lack actual recording capabilities, the memo highlights the NSA’s vigilance over even seemingly trivial security risks in the late '90s, at a time when the interplay between consumer tech and privacy was burgeoning.

Today, this memo is a curious reminder of the early stages of digital surveillance and its implications in consumer technology—foreshadowing contemporary anxieties around AI, data privacy, and cybersecurity. The Furby memo remains a quirky yet poignant snapshot of how the government responded to emerging tech’s potential risks in the digital age.

Citations:

National Security Agency. (1999). Furby Memo. Partially declassified and released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

UW Libraries Catalogue Entry: Permalink

Fulltext available via the Internet Archive

National Security Agency. (1999). Furby Memo: Policy Questions. Partially declassified and released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

UW Libraries Catalogue Entry: Permalink

Fulltext available via the Internet Archive

Furby Photo Credit: M.L.

[random-kazakh-stuff]

There is a common play on words in Russian about a town in Kazakhstan. It goes like this:

A: Где ты шлялся, пес? ("Where were you, dog?")

B: Где, где? В Караганде!("Where, where? In Karaganda!")

The play here is that Where and Karaganda(declenised, it's when you change the ending of a word, because grammar) have the same ending -de.

There is however many interesting things happening at the same time with this saying.

First of all, it's origin.

It can't be said when or where exactly this phrase appeared, but some argue that it could have been a common answer from people who had been released from Karlag(Karaganda Corrective Labour Camp) which around a million people went through from 1930 to 1959. It is suggested that people wouldn't want to say that they went to Karlag so they just dismissively answered that they were in Karaganda.

Secondly, there is the way the phrase traveled through the years.

Russian is spoken less and less in most countries that were once part of USSR. At the same time, there are young people today who have never learned the geography of other countries(in comparison to times in USSR when they would apparently learn about the entire USSR).

So there is an group of young people who might learn Russian and hear the phrase but never find out that Karaganda is a real plase, in Kazakhstan, and not a imaginary or a funny word.

There is also a monument for the phrase! where? guess.

The animal is marmot btw which is the symbol animal of Karaganda.

[ID: A photo of the monument on a sunny day. All of the figures are of a dirty coppery orange colour. From left to right: a man standing with a suitcase at his feet looking confused, and holding a hand close to his face as if looking out for the horizon; a signpost with arrows pointing to different directions, top to down: "Karaganda 0km", "Astana", "Moscow"; a sizeable marmot with a smug face leaning on the sign; a man in a cap spreading his arms, as if trying to explain something]

[doing-poorly-doing-well]

On Charles Xavier...

I figured I'd now give Charles' little timeline so everyone could see his junk too. Again, I'd give more with his personality, but I'll wait much like with Erik (also partially because I don't think my take of "somewhat morally gray" Charles isn't wholly revolutionary. I didn't make him evil though, for the record. He better serves as being just a flawed guy).

Charles' Timeline...

Born in 1931 to Dr. Brian Xavier and Sharon Xavier, Charles was born into a wealthy and loving family, growing up mostly on a nuclear research base in New Mexico, alongside his best friend Carter Ryking. That was until an accident killed both of their fathers, and Charles’ mother moved back to their ancestral home on the east coast when he was 8. In her grief, she leaned on Dr. Kurt Marko, one of Brian’s colleagues, quickly married him, only to regret it. Kurt was abusive, working in cycles of intense love and intense neglect, taking over the finances, which was all he cared about. Despite this, he favored Charles to Cain, leading to Cain bullying Charles and getting beaten for doing so, and Sharon as the years progressed. His mother soon turned to alcoholism, and Charles tried to take on the mental turmoil for both of them, but couldn’t save her. She died of alcohol poisoning and a broken heart when he was twelve, and lived with Cain and Kurt for three more years. That was, until Cain started a fight with his father, trying to extort money, and when the two fought they caused an accidental explosion. Kurt saved the two boys, and as he died, he apologized to Charles about killing both his parent’s, seeking forgiveness, and told Charles not to let Cain find out about his powers. However, despite his best efforts, Cain overheard the two and a bitter rivalry started ever since.

Charles moved out of the home once he graduated at sixteen, and Cain had left soon after his father died. Charles then decided to move to Oxfordshire, England, to go to the university of Oxford (duh), studying genetics, medicine, and get a doctorate in psychology. During this time, he met Moira Kinross, his classmate and a human rather interested in mutation herself. The two became quick peers and quicker friends, with Moira staying up late nights chatting with Xavier about the possibilities of human advancement. Despite something slightly more tinging their friendship, Moira had married Joe McTaggert, though a love for Charles lingered. In a tragic car crash though, Joe died, and Moira would’ve too if Charles hadn’t saved her. They fell in love (again), and the two were engaged. Charles gained his degrees in record time, and the two travel together, specifically the Mediterranean, helping people, encountering dangerous mutants. However, the engagement had become strained romantically, and the two amicably called off the engagement. Moira moved to an island off the coast of Scotland to continue her research on mutants, and Charles moved to Germany in 1954.

Charles took up a job given to him by Daniel Shomron to help victims of the Holocaust at a hospital. It was there he met “Magnus” and Gabrielle Haller. Gabrielle was a catatonic patient that Charles helped by using his powers of telepathy and eventually grew to love, even starting a relationship with her. “Magnus” was a rather mysterious, if not incredibly intelligent coworker, who Charles quickly grew fond of. The two hit it off quickly, and the more Charles learned, the more saddened he became. Despite never saying much about his past, Charles could sense it in the way he spoke. Beyond that, the two talked of philosophy, literature, science, and mutants. The two would bicker for hours about mutants and what they should do, not knowing of the other’s true nature. By the end of every argument, the two would be found snoring and slumped against each other. It was some of the happiest years either of them had. Then, HYDRA attacked the hospital and kidnapped Gabrielle so she could reveal the site of a cache of gold. Charles decided to find her, and Magnus joined him, both revealing their mutant powers. However, when Magnus tried to kill a HYDRA agent, Charles stopped him. Magnus left that night, taking the gold with him.

Charles stayed for a few months after, but felt restless, leaving Germany and Gabrielle on seemingly good terms. He went back to America, continuing his studies until 1965, when he was among the first to be drafted in the Vietnam War. Coincidentally, his brother Cain was stationed in the same unit, and the pilot Carmen Pryde (Kitty Pryde’s dad). Charles became good friends with Carmen, Cain rejected his attempts to mend their relationship. After three years, on a darkened day, Cain deserted the army, and stumbled into the temple of Cyttorak. Charles got there just in time as Cain touched the gem of the temple and became a vessel for Cyttora, Juggernaut. Then, before either could notice, a high powered shell blasted the ancient temple, and buried Juggernaut under piles of rubble. Charles was injured, and found by Carmen. With a broken leg, he couldn’t continue, and was sent back to the States.

Charles soon healed, sending letters to Moira about her studies, and decided to start bringing together mutants… the trouble was finding them. In his nine year search, he found a handful. Most importantly he found the amnesiac prince of Atlantis, Namor, and Hank McCoy, a bright student of Harvard. Namor didn’t stick around, but Charles and Hank became fast friends, despite Hank seemingly wanting to hide his true mutant aspects. Over the years though, Charles hears whispers of something in the works of a mutant named Magneto trying to overthrow humanity. Growing increasingly fearful, in 1978 he worked with Moira to form a team of some of her young mutant students to put a stop to Magneto. Charles began putting work into an invention of his, Cerebro, enlisting a graduated Mr. McCoy to help. Moira also helps, by gathering a team of young mutants to combat Magneto’s forces. THESE IDENTITIES HAVE BEEN REDACTED FOR SECURITY REASONS.

THIS INFORMATION REGARDING THE 1978 “MAGNETO INCIDENT” HAS BEEN REDACTED

Still, nothing was going to break Charles, and he decides that nothing like this can happen again. So, he begins his life’s purpose and creates his School for Gifted Youngsters.

[sudaca-swag]

tbh i never once said i condemned h*mas after october 7th bc you know what if youre the type of person who will willingly and joyfully go to a festival and party next to an open air prison where people are systematically attacked, murdered, harrassed, get their water and electricity cut off just for funsies and lots of other stuff that violate all human rights, then bye bye bitch

[sevnsevn]

Pages from Charles Bukowski’s FBI file, 1968

He was the subject of an FBI investigation regarding his status as a postal worker after his name appeared on 41 articles, mostly “obscene,” in the magazine “Open City,” which he had written, and was reported to the FBI by an anonymous co-worker.

“He explained that his articles are ‘an inter mixture of fiction and fact’ and are ‘highly romanticized in order to give the story juice.’ He advised that he writes them ‘for sheer joy.’”

[walterdecourceys]

i don't like that the cia is trying to be woke now

[mickmathersartblog]

"Traveling this Way"

digital collage, digital drawing & digital painting by Mick Mather

(click image to view actual size)

[workersolidarity]

Declassified files expose British role in NATO’s Gladio terror armies - The Grayzone

The British Government recently released a trove of declassified documents relating to UK involvement with the CIA on Operation Gladio, a Fascist stay-behind proxy-Army formed and organized by the CIA in Italy during US occupation in the late 1940's using Fascist Partisans.

More than just an ordinary proxy-Army, Operation Gladio connected right-wing political figures, diplomats, bureaucrats, and high-ranking military figures with Fascist Partisans and willing dupes to form a network of spies, saboteurs, assassins, terrorist cells, and armies skilled in guerilla warfare.

Some of the members and their network of spies, assassins and saboteurs went on to serve in major positions of power for decades to come, enacting Far Right-wing policy, serving and supporting the interests of the United States, EU, NATO and Wall Street.

Operation Gladio became the framework for covert operations by which the US covertly controlled political outcomes in key European and Asian Nations post-WWII.

This network could both manipulate key political outcomes, as well as form a defensive network against any potential invasion and occupation by the USSR.

And Gladio was no joke. These Fascists were responsible for dozens of acts of terrorism in Italy against Leftists as well as ordinary civilians in False Flag attacks aimed at turning the Public against the Italian Left. They would literally pose as Communists, Socialists and Anarchists before committing terrorist attacks against civilians. In this way they could shape public perceptions of the Communist Party and its leadership.

In light of Operation Gladio becoming public knowledge in the early 1990's, even the European Parliament had to condemn the actions of the US, UK and NATO for its human rights violations, political interference, terrorist and false flag attacks.

All of this raises the questions around Western countries activities in Ukraine going back to 2014 and the Euromaidan coup. We know, for instance, the CIA very much continued to support, arm and train secretly the OUN and other Banderite Nationalist and Nazi organizations after WWII.

Did that support turn into a Gadio-style operation that succeeded in overturning the democratically elected Government of Ukraine for being too pro-Russia in 2014? The evidence suggests it did.

That's according to Kit Klarenberg's exceptional reporting in The Grayzone in November of last year in which he obtained documents from a UK Private Military contractor named Prevail Partners that was recruited and tasked with organizing a Gladio-inspired Operation.

Operation Gladio clearly lives on in modern (mostly Privatized) Operations handed off to Military Contractors by the CIA.

No country with this kind of operation occurring in its borders by a foreign Imperialist power, whether organized by the CIA or a Private Military contractor, can be said to have sovereignty. And without sovereignty, everything else is meaningless. You have no control over your government or its policies, you are no more than a proxy for Imperialism.

[namira]

Incheresting.

[dreamofstarlight]

I’ve seen this before and it really pissed me off, Jackie’s bloody pink Chanel suit is not in the national archives bc if it was on display in public it would “reveal” secret things about the assassination. It will never be on public display until 2103 so that by that time Caroline and other family members alive at the time will not be alive because I honestly don’t think any of them want to see it. Her children will not be alive. It is in Caroline’s deed not some government document. All it would reveal is that JFK’s blood was splattered and spilled all over her and we still don’t know where her hat went. If there was really some concern about the “truth” she wouldn’t have worn the suit in public for hours after even when one of her assistants laid out a black outfit for her to change into on Air Force One

[starlitsilver]

you all have no idea. no Clue. how hard i am trying not to become one of those Plane Guys (gender neutral) right now except i would be a Rocket Guy (gender neutral) WITH additional History Buff (Space Edition) to add to the loserness of it all. i can't. I cannot.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhh i don't wanna rub shoulders with elon musk aficionados im so fucking tired of the way that space exploration has been irreparably corrupted by billionaire dicksucking and capitalist homogeneity and ripping the roots out of public funding and fuck me goddammit i still love this stuff :[[[