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- From: graeme@inferno.manawatu.gen.nz (Graeme Merrall)
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- Subject: Re: Secrecy and Government Bulletin Retrospective Issue
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- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 16:38:01 EDT
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- >> THE ADVENTURE OF THE OLDEST CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT
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- >> Another decisive moment in the history of S&GB was our 1991 FOIA
- >> request to the National Archives for the date of their oldest
- >> currently classified document. The astonishing reply was that a
- >> document dated April 15, 1917-- immediately prior to the U.S. entry
- >> into World War I-- was still currently classified and maintained in
- >> secure storage at the Archives.
- >>
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- Any word on what this "oldest classified document" was? I don't think it
- would've had any far reaching consequences but it could be interesting as to
- why it was classified for that long.
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- Cheers,
- Graeme
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