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![CIA archives contain the Air Force’s SECRET sales pitch for getting stationed at Area 51](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/07/23/Area51cov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
CIA archives contain the Air Force’s SECRET sales pitch for getting stationed at Area 51
News that over a million people are planning on breaking into the infamous government facility known as Area 51 would doubtlessly come as a surprise to those who were actually stationed there, many of whom were all too eager to leave.
![Does your local government use drones? Help us find out](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/07/19/DroneCov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Does your local government use drones? Help us find out
Five years ago, MuckRock teamed up with Motherboard to conduct a massive survey of drone use by local police departments. We want to update that effort, and we need your help to do it.
![This Week’s FOIA Round-Up: Trump’s pre-inauguration military briefings revealed, the Supreme Court hears a key FOIA case, and records reveal Baltimore PD has destroyed far more rape kits than reported](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/04/26/f35.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
This Week’s FOIA Round-Up: Trump’s pre-inauguration military briefings revealed, the Supreme Court hears a key FOIA case, and records reveal Baltimore PD has destroyed far more rape kits than reported
In this week’s FOIA roundup, a records request reveals what then-President-elect Donald Trump was briefed on by military officials in 2016, a South Dakota newspaper battles supermarket industry lobbyists at the Supreme Court over federal food stamps data, and new documents expose Baltimore County Police Department underreported the number of rape kits they destroyed by hundreds.
![Cooking with FOIA: The CIA's TOP SECRET anti-poop diet](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/10/16/u2cov.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Cooking with FOIA: The CIA’s TOP SECRET anti-poop diet
Practically synonymous with high-altitude espionage, the Lockheed U-2 spy plane played an almost legendary role in the Central Intelligence Agency’s activities during the Cold War. Notoriously difficult to pilot and physically demanding (flights of over ten hours at over 70,000 feet were not uncommon), and a formerly TOP SECRET manual uncovered in the Agency archives outlines a strict regimen to keep pilots fit and healthy. Unsurprisingly, the manual touches upon the necessity of maintaining a proper diet, but somewhat surprisingly, the purpose of this proper diet is focused on “obviating the need for frequent defecation.”
In other words, keeping pilots from soiling their flightsuit.
![The CIA was warned of a potential "Red Dawn" scenario in Alaska](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/08/24/RD.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
The CIA was warned of a potential “Red Dawn” scenario in Alaska
A 1951 letter to the Central Intelligence Agency from a former spymaster warned of Russian infiltration in North America’s northern territories. Despite being described by the CIA’s cover letter as discussing the Soviet threat to Alaska and Canada “in very general terms,” its information and warning were considered important enough to send to J. Edgar Hoover in a package marked SECRET, and it remained classified until late 2018 - 67 years after it was written.
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2015 Report to Congress on Forensic Experiential Trauma Interview
T.J. Kenney sent this request to the Air Force of the United States of America
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Air Force Digital Receiver Technology contracts 1
William Green sent this request to the Hanscom Air Force Base of the United States of America
Fix Required
USAF Nuclear Weapon Safety Journal (AFRP 122-1)
Martin Pfeiffer sent this request to the Air Force of the United States of America