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As a person who has held various clearances through my career I wonder about this guy telling his story. It is interesting to read for sure,but he does say in
by ThinkBeat 7y ago
As a person who has held various clearances through my career
I wonder about this guy telling his story.
It is interesting to read for sure,but he does say in that he promised not to talk about "forever".
I have been given similar talks.
Even if part of what you work on is declassified, it does not release you from the "forever" clause.
I assume he has requested and been given permisson to talk freely about it.
- varjag 7y ago2019 in late 1950s was approximately "forever". Remember, Space Odyssey filmed 10 years later was taking place in 2001, already 18 years ago. We are that far in the future.
- 0xffff2 7y agoThat is absolutely not how the United States government thinks or operates.
- varjag 7y agoThe programs he worked on are declassified, so it absolutely does.
- 0xffff2 7y agoThat has nothing to do with your comment, but regardless it absolutely doesn't. Just because other people may be allowed to talk about it doesn't mean that you are.
- DrScump 7y agoNot every element of a declassified program is declassified, as there can be technologies shared with extant programs.
- acqq 7y ago> I assume he has requested and been given permisson to talk freely about it. I don't assume he has to be, and it's good that people who are that old aren't afraid to talk about what they did then. It's 50 years ago. To compare, General Groves was the military leader of a whole Manhattan Project published a whole book with the comparable amount of detail not even 20 years after the project, in 1962 ''Now It Can Be Told'': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Groves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Groves