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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.
A congressional task force focused on declassifying information maintained by the federal government hopes to interview "first-hand witnesses" of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, U ...
Congress voted in 1992 to have all of the government's assassination-related documents declassified by 2017, a deadline that has been repeatedly extended by presidents Trump and Biden due to ...
Panama Papers: Public disclosure of 11.5 million leaked documents detailing attorney–client information for more than 214,000 offshore companies associated with the Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider, Mossack Fonseca. Paradise Papers: Public disclosure of 13.4 million leaked documents relating to offshore investments.
The declassified files largely contain documents that have been previously leaked but never released in a formal capacity by the US government, according to a statement released by the justice ...
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.