Richard Clark Interview, 11 July 2003
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| TT: | OK. I think you intimated earlier that you knew that a team came out from Washington, but you didn't talk to them, is that true? | |
| RC: | I heard about it. | |
| TT: | You heard about it. | |
| RC: | But I don't know, they didn't talk to me. | |
| TT: | When you say you 'heard about it' what do you recall? | |
| RC: | That they were sending somebody out from Washington to talk to the crew. You know, and I don't remember who asked me but they wanted to know if I was sure about this [indicating scope photos]. Because that's when they said that there was somebody coming out from Washington and wanted to know if I was sure about this. And I told them, "it's there in black and white," there's nothing else that it can be. | |
| TT: | Why did you keep duplicate images of these? | |
| RC: | I thought it was neat! [Smiles]. | |
| TT: | And there was no problem with you doing that? These weren't classified? | |
| RC: | They were not classified. They may have classified them after the fact, but this was not classified material. | |
| TT: | I thought that any time film was exposed by anyone in the service or by contractors under the employ of the Air Force, for example like Land-Air used to do a lot of independent contract work for the Air force out at White Sands and so forth, any time they exposed film it became classified, and they were required to carry a side arm you know. That wasn't the case here? | |
| RC: | No. We had a lot of classified material. I had a Top Secret SIOP-ESI clearance and we burned classified material, you know, we did not have sophisticated cross-cut shredders back in those days—an officer and a NCO every week went out and burned classified material, literally. | |
| TT: | Would you be burning this stuff [indicating scope photos]? | |
| RC: | No, any of the film, or any of the prints from daily missions, hell, we'd throw them away. Those radar images are not going to mean anything to anybody. I mean, you couldn't tell a radar image of New York City compared to L.A., unless you knew it. |
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