After years of litigation, the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals said that Wolf was permitted to see thirteen responsive documents from 1948. “It was at this point that the CIA admitted that its ‘Post WWII Era Records’ are on microfilm, and that their microfilms are indexed by an old IBM-type punch card computer which is no longer operational,” Wolf wrote in Counterpunch in 2008. “The CIA is demanding $147,000 to find the missing reports.”

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