Cold War-era Senate hearings on overseas bases were held entirely in secret

Evidence

Pincus’s research took him to twenty-five countries hosting U.S. troops in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The subcommittee’s hearings ran for thirty-eight days. All were closed to the public. The hearing transcripts and the subcommittee’s final published report, which Pincus helped write, totaled 2,442 pages—not counting deletions requested by the Pentagon and State Department. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 782

Categorization

• QUESTION: The deletions requested by Pentagon and State Department suggest content that even secret hearings couldn’t reveal — worth chasing what was redacted.