Court Tightens Lid Over Bay of Pigs Draft Report
The CIA need not release records related to an internal investigation of the Bay of Pigs disaster, a divided panel of the D.C. Circuit ruled.
It has been nine years since a nonprofit called the National Security Archive requested most of a five-volume opus on the operation that CIA staff historian Jack Pfeiffer began preparing in 1973.
A lawsuit from the group in early 2011 led the agency to release three previously withheld drafted volumes but it refused to release the Volume V draft, which it claimed was covered by deliberative-process privilege under Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act.
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