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![What we talk about when we talk about █████: Secrecy, overclassification, and the CIA’s hidden history](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2019/09/30/cia_secrecy.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
What we talk about when we talk about █████: Secrecy, overclassification, and the CIA’s hidden history
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JPat Brown
In 1978, the director of the CIA warned that excessive, impulsive secrecy was a danger — not only to the public’s right to know, but to the agency’s ability to keep the important secrets. 40 years later, that lesson still needs repeating.
![Browse over a thousand CIA records about Indonesian mass killings](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/10/23/MurderTeam.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Browse over a thousand CIA records about Indonesian mass killings
by
JPat Brown
Recently declassified records released to the National Security Archive confirm the U.S. government’s awareness of, and active participation in, the Indonesian mass killings that spanned late 1965 to early 1966. A search through the Central Intelligence Agency’s archives for that time period reveals over a thousand related records in various degrees of redaction, showing the Agency’s keen interest in the “Situation in Indonesia.”