Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...open-DOE policy, inaugurated by the Clinton administration, has turned up 270,000 pages of previously secret material. There's also some film footage ? which even Energy Secretary Federico Pena found "disturbing" ? of radiation tests on pigs and other animals at the blast sites...
...told about being thrown into the icy Arctic Ocean when his ship was torpedoed. It turned out, however, that he was at Wilbur Wright Junior College in Chicago at the time. If the question of wealthy contributors' buying burial plots in Arlington had not arisen, he and his secret could very well have rested in peace...
WASHINGTON: Nobody likes a tell-tale. That?s the basic thrust of a letter sent by Secret Service Director Lewis Merletti to 3,200 of his current and 500 of his former agents. In the wake of one of their number ratting on President Kennedy?s memory for the sake of Seymour Hersh, Merletti reminds his men, an agent?s determination to keep confidences ?should continue forever...
...What?s troubling Merletti so is the number of indiscretions from Agent Tony Sherman in Hersh?s controversial Kennedy expose ?The Dark Side of Camelot.? Try this quote for size: ?You were on the most elite assignment in the Secret Service and you were there watching an elevator or a door because the president was inside with two hookers.? Regardless of the truth of the incident, it?s not exactly what Merletti would call loyalty to your old boss...
...Sherman is protesting First Amendment rights, and points out he?s only ?tattling? on a President who?s been dead 35 years. Seymour Hersh is yelling conspiracy, and the White House is claiming it had nothing to do with Merletti?s little round-robin. Still, at least the Secret Service has something to be proud of. The Merletti letter was sent December 5; whether they intended to or not, servicemen have managed to keep it hush-hush for ? oh, nearly two weeks...