Waycross B-29 crash event
also: Air Force B-29 crashed, the crash
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Waycross B-29 crash documented
“The court reversed the lower decision and for the first time, there was an official recognition of state secrets privilege. Fifty years later, a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that the crash had been caused by a faulty landing …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 3 @ 33:34
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▶ 32:17
You'd be right. It doesn't make any sense. But the government had been pulling this same kind of misbehavior since 1948, when the state secret privilege was first asserted. Unraveling these issues of national security can often take decades…
▶ 32:42
On August 9, 1950, a lawyer for the widows of the three civilian engineers who died in the crash requested a copy of the Air Force accident report to explain the incident. The government argued that the report could not be released without …
▶ 33:34
The court reversed the lower decision and for the first time, there was an official recognition of state secrets privilege. Fifty years later, a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that the crash had been caused by a faulty landing …