"frank" wrote in message...
- Tankfixer wrote:
Oner is forced to assume that everything too big to dump out of the
aircraft was comprehensibly smashed before they opened the doors...
-Remember the history books where Japanese were having burn parties in
-the back yard before Pearl? Of course part of the problem is learning
-how to burn huge amounts of crap (where the lesson is, don't keep a
-lot of crap in the safe). You end up with the huge pile of paper
-smothers stuff on bottom and does not burn.
-
-Or you have poor procedures to destruct like Iran embassy
-did when it was overrun, Iranian rug merchants put the shredding
-back into documents and they were published.

Yes, sad. The new rulers found that many of the
generals had been willing to talk to the Americans.
Of the 80 Iranian top generals, later, more than 70
were tortured and executed.
Certainly not a good thing to have others read the
records kept in the embassy.