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DOE Puts Declassification Into Reverse: Reviewers Combing Historic Files At Archives for Data to Reclassify As Secret

Date: May 19, 2001
Author: George Lardner Jr.
QUOTE: The Energy Department censors arrived in force at the offices of the Nixon Presidential Materials Project the morning after a tiny news item in the March 28 Washington Post said that records of the late president's National Security Council were about to be made public.

ABSTRACT: Archivists report that after years of laborious study to determine which documents can be unclassified and make public, government agencies are often re-categorizing them as classified with little study or notice. Some frustrated researchers accuse the government bureaucrats of doing this just to justify the continuation of their jobs.

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