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Declassification is the process of ceasing a protective classification, often under the principle of freedom of information.Procedures for declassification vary by country.
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.
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.
Several such codewords have been declassified. The following SCI control systems, with their abbreviations and compartments, are known: Special Intelligence (SI) Special Intelligence (so in the CAPCO manual, but always SI in document markings) is the control system covering communications intelligence.
Executive Order 14176, titled "Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.", is an executive order signed by Donald Trump on January 23, 2025, to declassify records about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Crump said Friday "these dastardly deeds" need to be publicly released, so they can serve as a "teachable moment." He demanded the documents be declassified "in their entirety, without further delay."
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Even when he was president, Donald Trump lacked the legal authority to declassify a U.S. nuclear weapons-related document that he is charged with illegally possessing, security experts said ...