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A determination must be made as to how and when the document will be declassified, and the document marked accordingly. Executive Order 13526 describes the reasons and requirements for information to be classified and declassified . Individual agencies within the government develop guidelines for what information is classified and at what level.
The process of removing previously declassified records was itself covert until it was revealed by the National Security Archive in February 2006. [4] Following outcry by journalists, historians, and the public, an internal audit by the National Archive’s Information Security Oversight Office indicated that more than one-third of the records ...
Confidential government papers such as the yearly cabinet papers used routinely to be withheld formally, although not necessarily classified as secret, for 30 years under the thirty year rule, and released usually on a New Year's Day; freedom of information legislation has relaxed this rigid approach.
Pentagon Papers: Top secret documents of the United States Department of Defense regarding its involvement in the Vietnam War. Afghan War documents leak: Disclosure of a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan. Iraq War documents leak: A WikiLeaks disclosure of a collection of 391,832 United States Army field reports.
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The document was then sent to congressional leadership and on July 15, 2016, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence approved publication of the newly declassified section. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] This declassification followed years of lobbying by families of those killed in the September 11 attacks, insurance companies and others.
A George H.W. Bush-era law had required the release of all JFK assassination records in October 2017, and during Trump’s first term, numerous records were indeed declassified and made public ...
A typical classified document. Page 13 of a U.S. National Security Agency report [1] on the USS Liberty incident, partially declassified and released to the public in July 2004. The original overall classification of the page, "top secret", and the Special Intelligence code word "umbra", are shown at top and bottom.