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Baker, Nicholson.
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Baker, Nicholson -- Diaries.
Baker, Nicholson -- Correspondence.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees.
Freedom of information -- United States.
Government information -- United States.
Official secrets -- United States.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
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Baker, Nicholson.
Baker, Nicholson -- Diaries.
Baker, Nicholson -- Correspondence.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees.
Freedom of information -- United States.
Government information -- United States.
Official secrets -- United States.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
MARC Display
Baseless
:
my
search
for
secrets
in the
ruins
of the
Freedom
of
Information
Act
/ Nicholson Baker.
by
Baker, Nicholson.
Penguin Press, 2020.
Call #:
358.38809 B168b
Subjects
Baker, Nicholson -- Diaries.
Baker, Nicholson -- Correspondence.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees.
Freedom
of
information
-- United States.
Government
information
-- United States.
Official
secrets
-- United States.
Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780735215757 (hc.)
Alternate title:
My
search
for
secrets
in the
ruins
of the
Freedom
of
Information
Act
Description:
xiv, 450 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Ten years into researching a book about the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker [novelist and essayist] was frustrated and disheartened. In the course of his research, he had become deeply disillusioned with the process of FOIA requests. He has been forced to wait years in some cases, while other requests have been answered only with documents rendered inscrutable, or even illegible, by copious redactions. Rather than wait forever, with his head full of
secrets
about government atrocities committed by his own country, Baker sets out to keep a personal journal of his obstructed research instead. He begins documenting his correspondence with the government administrators who are charged with responding to, and thus stymying, his requests. The result is one of the most original and daring works of nonfiction in recent memory, a singular and mesmerizing narrative into the history of some of the darkest and most shameful
secrets
of the CIA and US government--all willfully concealed to some degree despite the existence of the so-called
Freedom
of
Information
Act
. In his preternaturally lucid and unassuming style, Baker unearths stories of CIA programs involving weaponized insects and the deliberate spread of Lyme disease; dangerous military experiments carried out on unsuspecting American citizens; and devastating chemical munitions designed to inflict terrible harm on innocent civilians in far-flung countries. At the same time, he shares beautiful anecdotes from his daily life in Maine feeding his dogs and watching the morning light gather on the horizon. The result is an astonishing and utterly disarming story about waiting, bureaucracy, the horrors of war, and, above all, the deadly
secrets
the United States government keeps from its citizens."--From publisher.
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