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Agreement Reveals Covert Program to Hide Reclassification from
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The National Security Archive, April 11, 2006
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ashington D.C., 11 April 2006 -
The National Archives and Records
Administration secretly agreed to a covert effort, led by
the Air Force, the CIA, and other still-hidden intelligence
entities, to remove open-shelf archival records and reclassify them
while disguising the results so that researchers would not complain,
according to a previously secret Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
The secret agreement, made between the Air Force and the National
Archives, was declassified pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act
request by the National Security Archive and posted on the NARA
website yesterday.
The heavily excised MOU, signed by assistant archivist Michael Kurtz
in March 2002, reveals that the National Archives agreed that the
existence of the program was to be kept secret as long as possible:
"it is in the interests of both [excised] and the National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) to avoid the attention and
researcher complaints that may arise from removing material that has
already been publicly available," states the MOU. NARA agreed that
the withdrawal sheets indicating the removal of documents would
conceal any reference to the program and "any reason for the
withholding of documents." Read More
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Source: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20060411/index.htm
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