[exclusive] Justice Dept/IRS Money-Laundering Manual

The Memory hole has obtained and scanned “Investigation and Prosecution of Illegal Money Laundering: A Guide to the Bank Secrecy Act.” Originally written and published in 1983 by the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, this is the apparently identical version published by the IRS for its staff.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE DOCUMENT [PDF | 288 pp | 12 meg]

It was sent to Federal Depository Libraries 25 years ago, but the IRS and Justice have long since stopped voluntarily releasing publications that reveal their tactics and inner workings. This manual doesn’t appear to have been posted online until now.

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Some newly released docs

Justice Dept: Amerithrax Court Documents [DOJ]

Pentagon: “The Worldwide Military Command and Control System, A Historical Perspective (1960-1977), September 1980″ (25MB) [DOD FOIA site]

Justice Inspector General: “Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act, August 2008″ [DOJ IG]

Dept of Homeland Security: “Updated Status Report from DHS Regarding Deficiencies in Implementation of Executive Order 13,392, “Improving Agency Disclosure of Information”, (PDF, 3 pages - 1.18 MB)” [DHS FOIA site]

Several new audits from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstructions [SIGIR]

[exclusive] Over 400 forms used by the National Security Agency

Via a Freedom of Information Act request (which involved paying $700 and waiting almost 4 years), The Memory Hole has obtained blank copies of most forms used by the National Security Agency).

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FIRST FILE [PDF | 344 pp | 10.7 meg]

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SECOND FILE [PDF | 351 pp | 11.3 meg]

In response to a prior request, the NSA had sent a supposedly complete listing of forms that they use. (That list is located here.) I then requested a blank copy of each one. The NSA responded by sending a copy of more than 400 forms totaling 687 separate pages. (They also withheld 24 forms totaling 31 pages.)

I scanned the forms in the order (basically alphabetical) in which they appeared in the parcel. Some of them are standard Defense Department forms, but most originate within the NSA and have never been seen outside the agency. They range from the exotic to the pedestrian, but even the most prosaic form shines some light into the workings of No Such Agency.

Some samples:

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UPDATE, 17 Aug 2008: NSA Form P5590A, “Incomplete Sentences” - which used to be here - has been removed by The Memory Hole under legal threat by Pearson. Although on its face it appears to be a National Security Agency document - and thus uncopyrightable - it is actually a privately published, copyrighted document that is used by the NSA and other entities.

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Leaking News & Docs

ACLU posts three more torture memos from CIA and Justice Dept [ACLU]

53 new documents posted at the CIA’s FOIA site [CIA]

Pentagon Inspector General audit: “Accountability for Defense Security Service Assets With Personally Identifiable Information” [DOD IG] [News article]

Pentagon FOIA release: “National Security Personnel System payouts FY 2007″ [DOD]
>>> background: What is NSPS? [SecDef]

Terrorism-related DOJ / US Attorney indictments, January 1994 - April 2004 [Government Attic]

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction audit: “Comprehensive Plan Needed to Guide the Future of the Iraq Reconstruction Management System” [SIGIR]

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction report: “Key Recurring Management Issues Identified in Audits of Iraq Reconstruction Efforts” [SIGIR]

Justice Dept Inspector General report: “An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General, July 2008″ [DOJ IG]

EPA graciously allows 3 Senators to briefly view document concluding that greenhouse gases contribute to climate change [WaPo]

>>> related: Republicans block effort to subpoena global warming documents [LAT]

>>> related: Documents show EPA staff ordered to stonewall investigators and media [PEER]

Authorized Classification Markings in U.S. Intelligence [Secrecy News]

Why Is It So Hard to Get Documents from the National Archives About the National Archives? [HNN via FGI]

NIOSH report shows prison staff & inmates exposed to toxic metals for years [PEER]

UK: Leaked witness statements in trial of Corporal Daniel James [Cryptome]

Want to know what’s in your FBI file? [Exhibit A Baltimore] (Thanks, M)

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Port Study 2002

I found this gigantic PDF file, “Port Study 2002,” on a US military site several months ago. I downloaded it because infrastructure information often gets pulled offline during info-purges. I can no longer find this file, so I’m posting it.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FILE [PDF | 132 meg | 2858 pp]
(Hosted at the Internet Archive)

It looks as though someone merged a whole bunch of separate studies by the military into one insanely huge file - 2,858 pages of detailed information on major seaports in the US (including California, Washington, Alaska, New York/New Jersey, Georgia, Texas, and Louisiana), Panama, the Middle East, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, and elsewhere. Photos, maps, charts, graphs - you name it - with the focus on each port’s ability to handle a US military operation.

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Philadelphia

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Pentagon documents on embedded media

On a subpage of their Freedom of Info Act website, the Defense Department today has posted 127 pages of documents concerning embedded media. The file may be downloaded here:

DOD FOIA Reading Room [PDF | 3.3 meg | 127 pp]

Memory Hole mirror

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[exclusive] “Prisoner Boxes” in Iraq

First Published Photographs of Wooden Imprisonment Crates

>>> In Iraq, some prisoners/detainees are kept in wooden crates known as “prisoner boxes,” so I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Central Command asking for the following:

“Vanity Fair (Feb 2005 issue) has reported the existence of wood “prisoner boxes” being used by the US military in facilities in and around Baghdad. They are used to hold individual prisoners and detainees.

“I hereby request all photographs of these boxes, including empty boxes as well as boxes holding prisoners and detainees.”

Around nine and a half months later, CentCom responded by sending the three photographs on this page.

You are seeing the photos exactly as they were sent to me - as black and white printouts on standard printer paper, with creases from being folded into thirds. Two of the photos are extremely blurry and pixelated.

Considering that the average summer temperature in Baghdad is 111 F, and that temps can easily go above 120 F [source], it’s hard to imagine what it’s like to be inside these boxes.

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Technical note: These photographs were released as black and white print-outs by the US Central Command on 10 Nov 2005 in fulfillment of FOIA request #2005-085, filed by Russ Kick on 27 Jan 2005.

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Zip file containing high-resolution scans of all three photo print-outs [12 meg]

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Leaking news & docs

flashback: Key lawmakers - including Pelosi - were briefed on waterboarding, other torture techniques & the CIA’s secret prisons in 2002 [WashPost] Not only did they approve of these things, they encouraged them.

major investigative series: Deadly denial: Nuclear weapons workers who risked their safety in the Cold War now must fight for compensation [Rocky Mountain News] Includes primary documents

ACLU of Maryland Lawsuit Uncovers Maryland State Police Spying Against Peace and Anti-Death Penalty Groups [ACLU] Scroll down for the documents

>> related: COINTELPRO Returns: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies [HuffPost/Alternet]

A CIA Lawyer’s Smoking Gun [ Village Voice]. Interrogators were told: ‘If a detainee dies, you’re doing it wrong.’

New Pentagon Top Watchdog: A Part-Time Job [CBS]

Controlled Unclassified Info May Be Classified, US-Czech Doc Says [Secrecy News]

Arlington Cemetery official fired for honoring the wishes of the families of deceased Iraq war soldiers. The Bush admin wants no media coverage [AmericaBlog/WashPost] (Thanks to DM)

E-mail public documents get erased, disappear [AP]

flashback: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What? [HuffPost]

>> also: The goverment’s unprecedented vaccine-court filing [HuffPost]

Appeal of Vice-President Visitor Logs Lawsuit Dismissed [FOIA Blog]

Intel Official Blasts NYT Disclosure of CIA Interrogator’s Name [Secrecy News]

Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives [NYT]

The Air Force brass is pushing lush travel accommodations for themselves while troops put up with mangled seats on cargo aircraft [POGO]

How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects? [LA Times] “A discovery leads to questions about whether the odds of people sharing genetic profiles are sometimes higher than portrayed. Calling the finding meaningless, the FBI has sought to block such inquiry.”

Embedded Photojournalist Accuses US Military of Censorship After Being Barred for Publishing Photo of Dead Marine [Democracy Now!]

The Dark Side of the Toyota Prius [In These Times]

The Counterculture Colonel [Bohemian]. “During the 1960s, the U.S. Army tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon. Meet the Santa Rosa resident who ran the program”

>> related: Reports on Psychochemical Weapons [Memory Hole]

Scientology’s Crushing Defeat [Village Voice]

Actor plans to film long-lost García Márquez screenplay [Guardian]

Lost Films and TV Programs [AFI]

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[exclusive] Final volume of Kerry hearings into narco-corruption

The Memory Hole has posted the fourth, final volume of the rare transcripts from 1987/8 Senate hearings into official nacro-corruption in Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

This four-volume set of transcripts was available for a single week in 1989. The Government Printing Office then declared that it was unavailable and would never be reprinted.

The volumes are an indispensable resource for anyone interested in governmental connections to the illegal drug trade.

All four volumes - and background info - are posted on this page.

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Pentagon docs: expenditures in Iraq & elsewhere

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Today in its Freedom of Information Act reading room, the Pentagon has posted 202 pages of documents related to its Iraqi Freedom Fund transfers/expenditures from 2002 to 2006:

DOD reading room [PDF | 9 megs]

Memory Hole mirror

The Government Accountability Office explains the Iraqi Freedom Fund:

“The Iraqi Freedom Fund is a special account providing funds for additional expenses for ongoing military operations in Iraq, and those operations authorized by P.L. 107-40 (Sept. 13,2001), Authorization for Use of Military Force, and other operations and related activities in support of the global war on terrorism.”

Some sample pages from the Pentagon’s FOIA release:

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[exclusive] Justice Dept/IRS Money-Laundering Manual

Some newly released docs

[exclusive] Over 400 forms used by the National Security Agency

Leaking News & Docs

Port Study 2002