Represented by the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine and by the National Security Archive of George Washington University, Vietnam expert Berman is challenging the CIA's "blanket policy" of refusing to release any PDBs, even historic or innocuous ones that risk no damage to national security.
"The 9/11 Commission had to fight tooth and nail to get excerpts from PDBs about the threat from bin Ladin," commented Professor Berman, the author of three books on the Vietnam War. "But ten PDBs from the Johnson era came out before the CIA imposed its stonewall policy. Together, these releases prove that the PDBs should be reviewed and declassified like any other records, not set aside in a permanently closed vault."
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