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Government-Funded Research

Getting Smart, for a Change

On May 13, 2010, Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy of the Federation of American Scientists, finally received the letter for which he had long been hoping. It was from James P. Hogan of the Department of Defense (DoD), which had previously denied Aftergood’s Freedom of Information Act request for a document known as the JASON report, which was marked “for official use only.” Aftergood had appealed the denial, and in the interim, it seems, the powers that be had apparently decided that the DoD was better off letting Aftergood have the JASON report than continuing ...

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