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Dec. 21st, 2006 11:15 amProps to the Clinton team for signing this, double props for the secret prone Bush team for actually enforcing it instead of killing it.
U.S. to Declassify Secrets at Age 25
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/washington/21declassify.html?ei=5088&en=2e2fb735c90bd0d4&ex=1324357200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1166720416-AWlgftSkdGmrwaJNdoaXaw
“It is going to take a generation for scholars to go through the material declassified under this process,” said Steven Aftergood, who runs a project on government secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists.
“It represents the classified history of a momentous period, the cold war,” Mr. Aftergood said. “Almost every current headline has an echo in the declassified past, whether it’s coping with nuclear weapons, understanding the Middle East or dictatorship and democracy in Latin America.”
Anna K. Nelson, a historian at American University, said she hoped that the files would shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency role in Iran and deepen the documentation of the Jimmy Carter years, in particular the Camp David accords.
“Americans need to know this history, and the history is in those documents,” Ms. Nelson said.
FBI, NSA, CIA, all set to release millions of documents relating to events during the Cold War, Vietnam, and hundreds of other episodes in U.S. history.
U.S. to Declassify Secrets at Age 25
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/washington/21declassify.html?ei=5088&en=2e2fb735c90bd0d4&ex=1324357200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1166720416-AWlgftSkdGmrwaJNdoaXaw
“It is going to take a generation for scholars to go through the material declassified under this process,” said Steven Aftergood, who runs a project on government secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists.
“It represents the classified history of a momentous period, the cold war,” Mr. Aftergood said. “Almost every current headline has an echo in the declassified past, whether it’s coping with nuclear weapons, understanding the Middle East or dictatorship and democracy in Latin America.”
Anna K. Nelson, a historian at American University, said she hoped that the files would shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency role in Iran and deepen the documentation of the Jimmy Carter years, in particular the Camp David accords.
“Americans need to know this history, and the history is in those documents,” Ms. Nelson said.
FBI, NSA, CIA, all set to release millions of documents relating to events during the Cold War, Vietnam, and hundreds of other episodes in U.S. history.
