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As my mother was cleaning out her storage locker, she decided to bring back a reel-to-reel player back to her house. To her and my father's surprise, it still worked! That's a miracle in and of itself, as working reel-to-reel machines are few and far between. So, she went through all the tapes that play on the device to see if she could find a recording of her dad's voice (he died when she was 13, and I never had a chance to hear his voice). Most of the recordings were of schmaltzy music (as would be the case for man born nearly 100 years ago). What she found on one of the tapes blew her mind: an hour-long debriefing from the CIA about guards at a Viet Cong base circa 1968. I don't know if I've posted about this here, but my mother's dad was a spy working for the U.S. government (something my mom didn't know until about ten years ago [she also only found out about five years ago he wasn't her real father, but that's neither here nor there]). Now that my family has this recording, what should be done with it? I don't know if I can legally share it with you all, considering the recording starts with a stern-sounding man saying that it is burn before reading.
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I think you should definitely share it with us, nothing is possibly going to happen. There's no way somebody will come to your house because of some old vietnam reel thing, people surely have more important things to do than that.
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Nov 18, 2023 03:51
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Caesar Saladin posted:I think you should definitely share it with us, nothing is possibly going to happen. There's no way somebody will come to your house because of some old vietnam reel thing, people surely have more important things to do than that.
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Nov 18, 2023 03:55
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Hahahaha, you are a great joker and kidder, what will you think of next
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Nov 18, 2023 03:55
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You should probably contact the US military or FBI or something. They can figure out how to handle the classification (which may be over classified but eh). Heck, you could very plausibly get a cash bounty for doing the legally correct thing. or you could share it here unredacted, it's been a bit since the something awful forums had someone arrested for their posting
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Nov 18, 2023 03:56
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UPDATE: it turns out he got turned on to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer after his time as a spy in Vietnam.
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Nov 18, 2023 03:59
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Edward Mass posted:I don't know if I can legally share it with you all, considering the recording starts with a stern-sounding man saying that it is burn before reading. Did you sign anything about classified material with the government? If no, you can't get in legal trouble as a private citizen. 1st amendment covers you. Do you think you will ever want a job with a security clearance or sensitive info government work in the future? If yes, maybe don't share it. (edit: the 1st covers you publishing it at least. You could get in trouble if you tried to secretly send it to foreign agents or something.) Klyith fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Nov 18, 2023 |
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Nov 18, 2023 03:59
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Post it here, then immediately close all your internet accounts, disconnect your phone and utilities, and move to a safe South American country. (To any spooks reading this: Just jokin', m'kay.)
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Nov 18, 2023 04:09
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just say you declassified it. share it with any celebrities you know
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Nov 18, 2023 04:14
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Edward Mass posted:an hour-long debriefing from the CIA about guards at a Viet Cong base circa 1968. tbh that sounds boring as poo poo outside of being an historical relic
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Nov 18, 2023 04:15
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Get ready to see your grandpa banging lots of Vietnamese ladyboys who aren’t your grandma 
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Bloodfart McCoy posted:Get ready to see your grandpa banging lots of Vietnamese ladyboys who aren’t your grandma Bro, he's not even my grandfather - his bowling buddy got my grandma pregnant.
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Nov 18, 2023 04:19
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Edward Mass posted:Bro, he's not even my grandfather - his bowling buddy got my grandma pregnant. 
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Nov 18, 2023 04:24
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Edward Mass posted:UPDATE: it turns out he got turned on to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer after his time as a spy in Vietnam. Wow PTSD really did gently caress a lot of those guys up
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Nov 18, 2023 04:32
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Under the direction of Director Pompeo in 2017, the CIA in collaboration with the Department of Infrastructure and the lobbying wing of the house freedom caucus, unilaterally declassified and began to categorize all documents and other forms of media dated prior to the United States invasion of Grenada. However... retrieving, categorizing, and digitizing that many documents is estimated to be complete in the year 2035 since it's literally a two people (Agent Jay and Agent Kayla) in the entire agency who are assigned to the project. FOIA requests get bumped to the front of the queue but even then the return is a couple years. So all of that to say, do it.
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Nov 18, 2023 05:06
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Thank you op for choosing a dying gay internet forum from the early 2000s to post possibly classified/declassified CIA recordings Eat poo poo WarThunder !
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Nov 18, 2023 05:24
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Literally eating popcorn while I'm watching this play out.
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Nov 18, 2023 05:32
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Please share it okay?
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Nov 18, 2023 05:38
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You brought it up, so you might as well.
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Nov 18, 2023 05:44
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Edward Mass posted:As my mother was cleaning out her storage locker, she decided to bring back a reel-to-reel player back to her house. To her and my father's surprise, it still worked! That's a miracle in and of itself, as working reel-to-reel machines are few and far between. So, she went through all the tapes that play on the device to see if she could find a recording of her dad's voice (he died when she was 13, and I never had a chance to hear his voice). Most of the recordings were of schmaltzy music (as would be the case for man born nearly 100 years ago). What she found on one of the tapes blew her mind: an hour-long debriefing from the CIA about guards at a Viet Cong base circa 1968.
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Nov 18, 2023 05:46
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digitize it then record oppa gognam style in alvin and the chipmunks voice on the reel and turn it over to the cia, op
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Nov 18, 2023 05:53
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some nerd rear end spooks in langley will be all sweaty and or weirdly horned up getting to listen to it and then its that
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Nov 18, 2023 05:55
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my dad has classified poo poo from the same era but from the west side of the berlin wall and not viet nam in the basement. it doesn't matter. none of this matters. the computers/cryptography machines they used back then were all classified themselves and now all that poo poo is in museums. you're not going to turn the tide of the viet nam war op. old uncle sam don't care, he's already got your money and is choking himself while jerking off
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Nov 18, 2023 06:24
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We can still win this war but only if you share the tapes.
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Nov 18, 2023 06:32
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release it so boards of canada and godspeed you! can sample it
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Nov 18, 2023 06:33
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i told the judge i said why don't you shut your loving mouth for once in your life and listen
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Nov 18, 2023 06:36
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You could always contact the gov if you're worried you can't share it, likely all that classification stuff fell off years ago or was supposed to. Unless it's something that affects current national which is unlikely.
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Nov 18, 2023 06:54
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Grey Cat posted:You could always contact the gov if you're worried you can't share it, likely all that classification stuff fell off years ago or was supposed to. Unless it's something that affects current national which is unlikely.
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Nov 18, 2023 06:55
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mannerup posted:overclassification is 100% a thing even for the dumbest poo poo, wouldn't be surprised if it still is it's probably not even interesting to anyone outside the family and people actively in the vietnam war when the debrief happened, considering the stated content
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Nov 18, 2023 06:56
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You have put yourself in tremendous danger just by posting this thread.
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Nov 18, 2023 07:00
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What if this was the first domino that leads to Vietnam 2?
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Nov 18, 2023 07:02
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kntfkr posted:you're not going to turn the tide of the viet nam war op.
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Nov 18, 2023 07:10
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This feels like guerrilla marketing for the monarch: legacy of monsters
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Nov 18, 2023 07:18
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The Vietnam War lol. Why would they classify that it was almost 100 years ago. Oh yeah I have some intel on Alexander the Great’s troop movements in the Hindu Kush, let me telegram Glen Gould at the Intercept
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Nov 18, 2023 07:29
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sell it to trump he collects that kinda poo poo just dont expect to get much for it
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Nov 18, 2023 07:34
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If you release the tapes, Bernie can still win.
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Flowers for QAnon posted:This feels like guerrilla marketing for the monarch: legacy of monsters Welcome to Dick & Ballard Marketing LLC, your computer and chair are over there. Well really it's more of a stool. Anyways we won a major contract from Apple Films to produce a viral campaign for their new monkey show. Real hush hush stuff. You went to college for this right? Good, what I need you to do is find the master account list and start logging into each legacy account for every message board and IRC channel that's currently classified as "gay, dead, or dying." Many of these accounts have karma or a mid-tier post count. If you find a gay dying forum, webring, xanga, ... etc that we don't, submit a DIK request to kelly on the 3rd floor and she'll return an account in 3-4 days. ...the content? That's why we're paying you $12 an hour college boy, to come up with the content. I can't do everything myself. And submit all work through our machine learning engine. And listen before you get started the shitter is clogged again and the janitorial staff is out until after the holiday so I need you to find gloves and fix it, college boy.
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Nov 18, 2023 10:08
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Post in on your World of Tanks discord, that's the hot new trend
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Nov 18, 2023 10:10
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Show it to kid rock. He'll know what to do.
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I believe the president gave clear guidance OP you should store it in your bathroom (a secure compartment, if you will)
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