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![115 people helped sort through Donald Rumsfeld’s memos. Here’s what they found.](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/06/01/Snow.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
115 people helped sort through Donald Rumsfeld’s memos. Here’s what they found.
Our contest to crowdsource #RummysSnowflakes is officially over, so now it’s a time to congratulate the winners and see the results!
![#FOIAFriday inspiration plus week one winners of #RummysSnowflakes](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/05/11/RumsCom.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
#FOIAFriday inspiration plus week one winners of #RummysSnowflakes
This week, see how FOIA has helped open a secretive EPA, what you helped uncover in Rumsfeld’s memos, and which agencies made the worst of the worst - plus how you can win free MuckRock requests and swag!
![Help analyze Donald Rumsfeld’s memos and win MuckRock requests and swag](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2018/05/02/rummy.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Help analyze Donald Rumsfeld’s memos and win MuckRock requests and swag
In January, thanks to a five-year fight by the National Security Archive, the Pentagon began releasing massive troves of Donald Rumsfeld’s memos, so copious that they developed their own legendary status within the Armed Forces. Now you can explore the early days of the War on Terror - and potentially earn free MuckRock requests and even swag - by helping analyze the release.
![Memo shows Kissinger and Rumsfeld in damage control mode following revelation of CIA domestic activities](https://cdn.muckrock.com/news_images/2017/04/10/RumKiss.jpg.800x600_q85_crop.jpg)
Memo shows Kissinger and Rumsfeld in damage control mode following revelation of CIA domestic activities
In late December 1974, the New York Times published an article reporting a massive set of CIA operations conducted domestically and targeting American citizens. A memo marked CONFIDENTIAL in the Kissinger archives shows that Henry Kissinger and White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld were planning a public response to the article’s allegations almost immediately.