May 5, 2006
Archives Audit Calls Removal of Documents 'Inappropriate'
Thousands of records were reclassified; scholars are stunned by the volume
More than 25,000 documents have been secretly removed from the shelves of the National Archives and Records Administration for reclassification since 1995 at the request of government agencies, and in at least a third of those cases, the removals were unwarranted, according to an internal audit released by the archives last week.
"A stunning, large percentage of the documents examined were wrongly
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