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The Declassification Backlog of Historic Records 8Cook 9

 

Blanche Wiesen Cook, an eminent historian of American foreign relations, has noted that over two-thirds of previously declassified State Department material relating to U.S. involvement in Guatemala in the 1950s was reclassified in the 1980s, despite its use in published scholarly works. [Blanche Wiesen Cook, "Presidential Papers in Crisis," Unpublished paper]
-- Page Putnam Miller (Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History) In partnership with the Organization of American Historians "Foreign Government Information: Declassification Policy Problem" Paper II of The Declassification Backlog of Historic Records (December, 1994) http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/legacy.html
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