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What are classified documents? Who gets to see them? What happens if they are released? A former State Department and Department of Defense staffer who had top secret clearance provides the answers.
What are classified documents? Who gets to see them? What happens if they are released?
Researchers tried several times to have the document declassified, including in 1992, 2004 and 2016. It was initially written to help American NSA agents crack difficult coded messages.
Traveling death squads. Sadistic torture techniques. Stolen babies. The US helped it all happen by aiding Argentina’s military regime in the 1970s, according to newly declassified documents.
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Associate Professor of the Practice of International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Richard Bean is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Fellow, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland
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Political Science Profesor, Torcuato di Tella University
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Director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
