CIA closes declassification office

[presence]

Sad day... no more of these:

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CIA closes office that declassifies historical materials
The Historical Collections Division is the latest casualty of sequester cuts. The office handling Freedom of Information Act requests will take over the work.

By Ken Dilanian

WASHINGTON — The budget ax has fallen on a CIA office that focused on declassifying historical materials, a move scholars say will mean fewer public disclosures about long-buried intelligence secrets and scandals.

The Historical Collections Division, which has declassified documents on top Soviet spies, a secret CIA airline in the Vietnam War, the Cuban
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-cia-sequester-20130822,0,1013990.story

[QuickZ06]

Like they have ever really disclosed anything, guess we won't get to see all that stuff on JFK in 2017, o darn.

[kathy88]

How convenient. Last place I would have cut funding.

[GregSarnowski]

Speaking of the "sequester', my liberal Obama voting brother is now a Congressional staffer and he was complaining to me about all the constituents who are calling up and yelling at him about the cancellation of the White House tours. All I could do was laugh in his face.