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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.
Declassification is the process of ceasing a protective classification, often under the principle of freedom of information.Procedures for declassification vary by country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
The major focus is the idea that information should become declassified systematically as soon as practicable. Specific time limits are mentioned for different kinds of information, but there is also the provision that information that still needs to be classified can stay classified.