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September 10, 2010

Pentagon Considers Buying and Destroying Copies of Afghan War Memoir
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The New York Times reports Pentagon officials are negotiating to buy and
destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of an Afghan war memoir
they say contains intelligence secrets. The book “Operation Dark Heart,”
was written by Anthony Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency
officer and a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. Army reviewers
originally signed off on the book’s publication but the Defense
Intelligence Agency later identified more than 200 passages suspected of
containing classified information. The book reportedly includes
Shaffer’s accounts of clandestine operations, including eavesdropping
operations by the National Security Agency.



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