It takes a generation if not longer for some truths to come out... as the 2nd world war generation are sadly coming to an end what cover ups do you know about or will come out soon.. wasnt the MOD suppose to release all the info by year x cheers
so what can we expect and when. has anybody got any insight into this. or is it best to leave it for a few more years ...or even no comment.....or just name, rank, number. i know this could be a touchy subject thanks
Not a touchy subject at all, there is what is know as the thirty year rule. When the thirty years are up, there are releases of huge amounts of previous secret documents. Though some are secret for a hundred years, and rightly so. It is to any Countries advantage to select what is to be put in the public domain. and what is not. Sapper
You have the thirty year rule and I am not sure there is a fifty and a hundred year rule as well. The latter is to protect those who could be affected by an action. Having this means that they will be long. Trouble with this is that the defence of the realm and the officials secrets act, gives parliament the right to veto the release of potentially damaging material if persons living would be affected, distressed or sued as a result of the disclosure etc or if it was not deemed to be in the public interest, which would be defined and decided by them funny enough.
Information here from National Archives. About us | Freedom of Information The 30 year standard closure period no longer determines access to records; instead, information is assumed to be ´open´ right from the start unless one of the exemptions set out in the Act applies. Freedom of Information Act 2000 Freedom of Information Act 2000
Have you heard this one? abandonment of U.S. Prisoners of War to the Communists in three different wars (including over 20,000 WWII U.S. servicemen that the Russians took from "liberated" German POW camps, and promptly sent to the Soviet Gulags, never to be heard from again). View attachment 702 It's A Weird and Dangerous World - Miscellaneous Coverups and other Bad Happenings
Yes, Geoff had heard of that before but didn't realise in such large numbers. Here's a link to a story that names one man.CNN.com - Official says hundreds of U.S. citizens likely died in gulags - Feb 11, 2005 Another link here Gulag Study http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/vietnamwar/FamilyUpdateFactSheet12Jan06.pdf Who added that to my post? I didn't
Was me Owen. Edited your post instead of taking the quote. I cannot accept 20,000 US POW's from ww2. They would have been with other nationalities, there presence in the German camps would have been registered and this would have blown the 1% death rate in German POW camps to smithereens.
FULL disclosure on the Hess business....why the Hurricanes were called off, why there happened to be forces exercising close to his intended landing place at Dungavel that night etc., intelligence files on the Marquis of Hamilton... The Ralph Edwards/Buill Tennant/Walter Monckton coup plan in June/July 1940... The death of the Duke of Kent...who was the mysterious extra person aboard the Sunderland? Full details from the BRITISH side at least of the Army's liaison with the Irish Defence Forces in 1940/41
And OF COURSE - how couldI forget... After the recent DNA findings on the skull fragment purported to be Hitler's for all these years.... Where's Wally?
Phylo, That's the one I want to see - Hess. Wonder if Smudger Jnr knows anything? Could 30 year rule apply here ie 30 years after his death in Spandau. Think I am right in saying loss of the Lancastria was withheld during WW2 (see other thread re Lancastria) anyone know when it was officially released? Mike
