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Thousands of documents secretly reclassified Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3673370.html http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3673370.html Feb. 20, 2006, 11:11PM Thousands of papers secretly reclassified By SCOTT SHANE New York Times WASHINGTON - In a 7-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have removed from public access thousands of historical documents that had been available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians. The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the Central Intelligence Agency and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Clinton. It accelerated after President Bush took office and especially after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to archives records. But because the reclassification program is shrouded in secrecy — governed by a still-classified memorandum that prohibits the National Archives even from saying which agencies are involved — it continued virtually without outside notice until December. That was when an intelligence historian, Matthew Aid, noticed that dozens of documents he had copied years ago had been withdrawn from the archives' open shelves. Aid was struck by what seemed to him the innocuous contents of the documents: mostly decades-old State Department reports from the Korean War and the Cold War. After Aid and other historians complained, the archives' Information Security Oversight Office began an audit of the reclassification program. J. William Leonard, director of the office, said he ordered the audit after reviewing 16 withdrawn documents and concluding that none should be secret. "If those sample records were removed because somebody thought they were classified, I'm shocked and disappointed," Leonard said in an interview. "It just boggles the mind." If Leonard finds that documents are being wrongly reclassified, his office could not unilaterally release them. As the chief adviser to the White House on classification, however, he could urge a reversal of the reclassification program.

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