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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.
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 ...
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 declassified FBI document from 2016 opens a revealing new window into the bureau’s investigation of alleged Saudi complicity in the 9/11 terror attacks.
The National Security Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive is an investigative journalism center, open government advocate, international affairs research institute, and the largest ...
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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.