CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
According to the report, sections of the documents— “almost invariably the most crucial passages”—are marred by an indelible black ink that renders the lines impossible to read, due to a top-secret highlighting policy that began at the agency’s inception in 1947.
CIA Director Porter Goss has ordered further internal investigation.
“Why did it go on for this long, and this far?” said Goss in a press conference called shortly after the report’s release. “I’m as frustrated as anyone. You can’t read a single thing that’s been highlighted. Had I been there to advise [former CIA director] Allen Dulles, I would have suggested the traditional yellow color—or pink.”
Goss added: “There was probably some really, really important information in these documents.”
Very funny. Yes, Dulles was very confused about colors. He mistook olive-green American-GI uniforms for Nazi gray, also. This handicap, however, inadvertently saved the CIA from the embarrasment of an especially ugly incident in Dallas, when he chose red roses for Jackie instead of the traditional Texas yellow.
Tim Fleming
author, “Murder Of An American Nazi”
http://www.eloquentbooks.com/MurderOfAnAmericanNazi
http://leftlooking.blogspot.com