He wrote, "I remember vividly as our car was stoned by mobs of angry Libyan youths as my mother drove through downtown Tripoli on the way to the base.

[1] Aid attended high school in New York City, where his interest in collecting declassified documents and love of playing war games, led him to become friends with John Prados, a National Security Archive fellow, who was attending graduate school at Columbia University and at the time, designed board war games.

[3] Examples of some of the discoveries made in his research include a Gulf of Tonkin incident that higher level officials had refused to declassify, and secret investigations into Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali and Art Buchwald.

The ensuing scandal triggered a temporary suspension of the program this spring and a pledge from Archives officials that the public would be notified when withdrawals occur."

[2] Aid was court-martialed for unauthorized possession of classified documents and impersonating an officer, received a bad conduct discharge, and was imprisoned for a year in 1986.