The Zero Dark Thirty File
Subtitle: Lifting The Government's Shroud Over the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden
By: Edited by Nate Jones and Lauren Harper with Documents from Jeffrey T. Richelson and Barbara Elias
Series: National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book -- No. 410; National Security Archive electronic briefing book -- no. 410.
Publisher: National Security Archive
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Sources; Assassination; Death and burial; Special operations (Military science); Qaida (Organization)
Description: The poster for the blockbuster movie Zero Dark Thirty features black lines of redaction over the title, which unintentionally illustrate the most accurate take-away from the film - that most of the official record of the hunt for Osama bin Laden is still shrouded in secrecy, according to the National Security Archive's ZD30 briefing book, posted today at www.nsarchive.org. The U.S. government's recalcitrance over releasing information directly to the public about the twenty-first century's most important intelligence search and military raid, and its decision instead to grant the film's producers exclusive and unprecedented access to classified information about the operation, means that for the time being, for bad or good, Hollywood has become the public's "account of record" for Operation Neptune Spear.
Notes: "Posted - January 17, 2013."

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