FBI Releases Eighteen Pages From HAARP Threat File
The Federal Acts request concerning the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) offers a stark illustration of how little the public record can reveal even when an agency formally answers a request. Addressed to requester John R. Greenewald Jr.
under FOIPA Request No. 1480581-000, the letter states that 111 pages were reviewed and that 18 pages are being released — a ratio that means the overwhelming majority of the responsive material remains outside public view. The arithmetic is the story.
According to the FBI's own accounting, the withheld material includes 67 deleted pages in one portion of the file and 26 deleted pages in another, with exemption codes such as (b)(6) and (b)(7)(C) — provisions covering personal privacy and law enforcement records whose disclosure could constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy — cited repeatedly on the deleted page information sheets. One page was withheld as a duplicate. The FBI…
