From Secrecy News:
1) DCI GOSS ADDRESSES CIA EMPLOYEES (SEPT 2004)
The text of a speech given by Director of Central IntelligencePorter Goss at his first meeting with CIA employees last September was finally approved for public release by the CIA last month, and disclosed this week.To the untrained eye, the speech appears to be an awkward attempt by the new Director to establish rapport with a suspicious audience, filled out by page after page of hollow rhetoric.
"My plan is very simple. It's for a dedicated focus on Mission, Capabilities, and Success," DCI (now DCIA) Goss said. But the Washington Post, which independently obtained the text of the speech last October, said then that it "offers the most extensive insight into [Goss's] plans for the agency since he took over and all but shut down CIA communications with the public." (WP, 10/22/04).
A copy of the newly released September 24, 2004 speech to CIA employees is available here: http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/goss092404.pdf
"I know that everything I say, or don't say, today is going to be interpreted in a lot of ways," Mr. Goss said ambiguously.
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2) INADVERTENT DISCLOSURE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS INFO
Upon reviewing 1.3 million pages of declassified records at the National Archives earlier this year, Energy Department officials found 76 pages of classified nuclear weapons-related information that were inadvertently released, according to a new report to Congress.
As in similar surveys in the past, most of the inadvertently released classified records concerned historical nuclear weapons storage locations or stockpile quantities -- information that does not represent a current proliferation hazard. However, some of the records also included unspecified weapons design information.
See "Seventeenth Report on Inadvertent Releases of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data under Executive Order 12958," DOE Report to Congress, May 2005 (declassified version, August 2005): http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/inadvertent17.pdf
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