National Security Archive, Suite 701, Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Stree

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National Security Archive, Suite 701, Gelman
Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H
Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037 - Phone
202/994-7000 - Fax [phone]
www.nsarchive.org
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Rising Tide of Secrecy
Chart by Jaime Noguchi and Catherine Nielsen The
National Security Archive www.nsarchive.org Infor
mation from the Information Security Oversight
Office (ISOO) 2006 Annual Report
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Number of Pages Declassified
Chart by Jaime Noguchi and Catherine Nielsen The
National Security Archive www.nsarchive.org Infor
mation from the Information Security Oversight
Office (ISOO) 2006 Annual Report
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The Bush Administrations Rewrite of the
Executive Order on Classified National Security
Information Commitment to Open
GovernmentIf there is significant doubt about
the need to classify information, it shall not be
classified.
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How Much Overclassification?
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Reclassificationputting the toothpaste back in
the tube
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How Many andWhere Were the Nukes? What the U.S.
Government No Longer Wants You to Know about
Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War
Released 1971
Released 2006
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How Many andWhere Were the Missiles?
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Intelligence Failure ReclassifiedCIA predicts no
Chinese intervention in KoreaDays later, 300,000
Chinese troops cross the border
Photocopied at NARA in 1996
Reclassified 10/16/01
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Dubious Secrets
Reviewed by the National Security Council June
1994
Reviewed by the National Security Council One
week later
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Secret Santa
Released by the CIA in 1999
Released by the Ford Library in 1997
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Pisco Sours, A Matter of National Security?
January 1975 DIA Biographical Sketch on General
Augusto Pinochet
Released in 1999
Released in 2004
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Real Costs of Secrecy