Village Voice Interviews Steven Aftergood of TheMemoryHole.org

The best little secrets aren't kept from Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. As the man behind that institution's Project on Government Secrecy, he has spent close to 15 years grappling with and defining the many ways the USA hides information. Aftergood has also sued the government to force disclosure of the yearly intelligence budget four times. He won once outright for the 1997 budget but got smaller satisfaction in the most recent suit for fiscal data from 1947 to 1970 when only the numbers for 1963 were released.