Operation Dark Heart Book by Anthony Shaffer

Former Defense Intelligence Agency officer, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, would have been happy that the Pentagon will buy the entire first printing – 10,000 copies – of his memoir called Operation Dark Heart. But he is not. According to military and other sources, the book will be burned, destroyed because the U.S. Department of Defense found “some issues we were very concerned with.”

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The official said the Defense Department “sent up a team to talk with the publisher some time ago,” and has been negotiating an agreement that might allow the Pentagon to purchase already printed copies of the book and permit a subsequent version to go forward as long as it complies with U.S. government requests.

Both sides now appear to have agreed on the contents of the second printing, but negotiations are focused on what to with the 10,000 copies already published.

The Pentagon is now negotiating with Shaffer’s publisher to buy the entire first print run, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The Pentagon’s plan to destroy all 10,000 copies of the initial printing was first reported Thursday night by the New York Times.

A new print run, without the disputed passages, is being prepared by the publisher. Meanwhile, the first printing is sitting in a warehouse in Virginia. Several dozen review copies of the first edition have already been circulated to media outlets.