“█████ pulled out a diapidated (sic) ham sandwich and began eating it there on the couch which seemed quite humorous to me.”

There’s a running joke on both sides of the transparency community that the standards for secrecy are so absurd that “you could easily classify a ham sandwich.” And nowhere does that dictum ring truer than in regards to the Central Intelligence Agency, which has, on multiple occasions, classified ham sandwiches.

These are those ham sandwiches, pulled from the CIA’s declassified archives.

Still hungry? Check out our “Cooking with FOIA” series for more classified consumables.

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