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Secrecy News: December 18, 2017

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View this email in your browser SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2017, Issue No. 88 December 18, 2017 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ **     REVERSING COURSE, DOD WILL RETAIN CLUSTER MUNITIONS REVERSING COURSE, DOD WILL RETAIN CLUSTER MUNITIONS The Department of Defense last month abandoned a 2008 policy that would have reduced the U.S. inventory of cluster munitions and imposed strict new safety and quality control standards on these anti-personnel weapons, which have been implicated in numerous civilian fatalities. "We must not lose our qualitative and quantitative competitive advantage against potential adversaries that seek operational and tactical advantages against the United States and its allies and partners," wrote Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan in  a November 30, 2017 memo  establishing the new policy. Therefore, "the Department will retain cluster munitions currently i

Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal

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Her 'Grey Alien' Statues Posted: 01 Dec 2017 08:16 AM PST “I thought I would share my own story. This did not personally happen to me, for all I know it could be totally made up. But it was so crazy it just might be real! Back in mid-2011, I was working a temporary job as a Data Collector, at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. I am a former military service member and my qualifications landed me the job. Anyway, my job was fairly simple. I would document technical data on new communications equipment being field tested by the Army's Operational Test Command (OTC). One of the technicians that worked with me was also a Field Technician for DirectTV or Dish. We would work long hours alongside the OTC staff and became good friends. Working long hours out in the middle of nowhere, story-telling became a good way to kill time. One particular occasion he shared a very strange story. He recounted working with the satellite provider out of Deming, NM - a small tow

Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal

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'Mothman Dynasty: Chicago's Winged Humanoids' Available at Amazon Strange Holiday Activity Daily 2 Cents: Have Extraterrestrials Entered Our Solar System? -- Painful Abduction Experiments -- 'Hawkesbury River Monster' Seen Again? 'Mothman Dynasty: Chicago's Winged Humanoids' Available at Amazon Posted: 12 Dec 2017 02:13 PM PST Mothman Dynasty: Chicago's Winged Humanoids - now available on Amazon. ARRIVES BEFORE CHRISTMAS! The presence of strange winged beings is probably as old as the human imagination. In the late Summer of 2011, reports of Mothman-like flying humanoids began to surface in the city of Chicago. After three brief sightings, there were no further accounts. Then unexpectedly in early 2017, a smattering of encounters emerged from different locations throughout the Chicago metro area; until the number reached near fifty sightings before the end of the Summer. Why Chicago? Why now? This book will examine the witness acco