For those of you who don't read the NCH forwards, I've extracted the
Scoop Jackson item from today's NCH Update from Bruce Craig.

Item #3 - Classified Documents in Jackson Papers Removed:  A team of
federal officials (including three CIA agents) from the External
Referral
Working Group - an interagency organization charged with overseeing
the
disposition of federal documents -- has removed over a dozen
classified
documents from the Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson papers deposited at the
University of Washington library. Researchers first discovered
documents
stamped "classified" a decade ago after Helen Jackson donated that
papers
to the university following her husband's death, but federal
investigators
failed to take action until recently.  Government officials examined
470 of
1,200 boxes and in the end found eight still classified documents. The
content of the confiscated documents remains unknown but they are now
secure in a university vault.  The papers presumably were overlooked
during
the library's review. According to university officials, such removals
and
redactions are not uncommon, though "what is unusual, however, is how
long
it took federal officials to act on the university's request for
clarification of the status of the documents discovered 10 years ago."


Maarja Krusten
GAO Historian
Office of Quality and
     Continuous Improvement (QCI)
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