VMs: HMM / Voynich...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just found this on Google Groups...

"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:<3D821854.3182750F@xxxxxxxx>...
> It's not so much incompetence, since technical staff
> are involved in declassification review, as it is a
> combination of woeful understaffing (there is simply
> not enough public pressure to accelerate the mandated
> declassification program) and as you observe,
> conservatism: not disclosing a non-security critical
> item appears to do little harm compared to mistakenly
> disclosing a security-critical item.
>
> I did get the Agency to declassify an article on use
> of HMM in analyzing the Voynich manuscript; there was
> amazingly quick turnaround, which may have been due
> to my being able to bypass the FOIA queueing process.
> It might be that if you know *specifically* what to
> ask for, so that no library research is required by
> Agency staff, the information may be released more
> quickly. There is a lot of ancient classified stuff
> that would do no harm to release now. Maybe just
> before I retire I'll put in a batch of additional
> requests.

Does anyone know more about this? :-)