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) [log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>