1st Marine Division in the “Battle of Chosin Reservoir”

Today's post comes to us from NDC blogger Neil Carmichael. The National Declassification Center's Indexing and Declassification Review division has recently finished screening 250,000 pages of United States Marine Corps records from the Korean War.  The documents released include Air and Ground unit diaries, primarily between 1950 and 1953.  Over 60 years ago, the 1st Marine … Continue reading 1st Marine Division in the “Battle of Chosin Reservoir”

NDC Declassification Process – Evaluation

As I mentioned in my previous post, the biggest interagency issue related to the new process was to follow the President’s direction, issued in a memo that accompanied Executive Order 13526 (http://www.archives.gov/isoo/pdf/implementing-memo.pdf), and apply risk management to the declassification process. So why is risk management needed? First, we need to examine who is performing the … Continue reading NDC Declassification Process – Evaluation