Originally Posted by
MMHendrie1
Mine went to the Air Historical Branch, who were helpful with some suggestions and required some fairly minor deletions. Clearance took two months.
Like you I went to a Mr Clarke at AHB for an article and got clearance. Later I submitted the same article but with some additions. This time I was told to alter some details as they were still classified. Too late, the original article ha d been printed in a magazine, in a journal, and presented at a seminar where parts were used by various academics.
As Old-Duffer said, the people to whom your work is submitted probably have no knowledge of the subject matter nor time to even research it.
An even later submission, illustrating Soviet targets, using Google Earth imagery was rejected our of hand.