NYT: Government has been secretly reclassifying documents for 7 yrs...

[MazeRat7]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html?_r=2&hp&ex=1140498000&en=1490d91764a11aea&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians.

But because the reclassification program is itself 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was when an intelligence historian, Matthew M. Aid, noticed that dozens of documents he had copied years ago had been withdrawn from the archives' open shelves.

Mr. 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 early cold war. He found that eight reclassified documents had been previously published in the State Department's history series, "Foreign Relations of the United States."

"The stuff they pulled should never have been removed," he said. "Some of it is mundane, and some of it is outright ridiculous."

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Obviously they are trying to redact something... but why such a broad brush and exactly what are they up to ?

MZr7

[Double T]

1. Attempting to 'rewrite history' by removing evidence of the truth??

Perhaps making sure the truth about the Kennedy Assassination and 'H.W.'s' involvement is never known.