Today's post comes to us from NDC blogger Neil Carmichael. The National Declassification Center will be holding a declassification conference from November 7 - 10, 2011, at the National Archives II at College Park. The theme of the conference is “Releasing and Protecting National Security Information through Declassification.” The conference is in keeping with the … Continue reading National Declassification Center November 2011 Conference
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NDC Declassification Process – Quality Assurance
Quality control review is one of the most important parts of the NDC process. In the early days of Executive Order 12958, agencies began to expand review programs to ensure that sensitive information was not released when the automatic declassification deadline arrived. To accomplish their goals, programs were established before sufficient government wide equity recognition … Continue reading NDC Declassification Process – Quality Assurance
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