There was an AP story in today's Salt Lake TRIBUNE about the Anderson papers, but there was also this brief item about a UofU political science prof who worked on the papers and now says "Anderson-related documents" have been removed from files in the National Archives. 6/7/06 U. political scientist calls probe 'fishing expedition' The Salt Lake Tribune University of Utah political scientist Tim Chambless, who years ago cataloged 85 boxes of Jack Anderson's papers for use in his research, calls the FBI's demands "a fishing expedition-." The documents he reviewed included some that "were politically embarrassing to a few people." But he said, "There was nothing in there with regard to national security." Chambless also wonders how much trolling the government has done in Anderson-related documents that had been in the public domain. When he was in Maryland recently, Chambless spent two days at the National Archives looking through declassified documents dealing with Anderson. He said he was concerned to find a number that had been removed from the file. "No reason was given as to why the documents were pulled, no date was given as to when they were pulled or by what agency or individual. This is very troubling to me," Chambless said Tuesday. "I asked specifically [who removed the documents], and that information was not provided to me." He declined to speculate whether the missing papers were part of a seven-year-old secret program, disclosed in news reports earlier this year, to reclassify thousands of documents at the National Archives. The New York Times reported the effort by the CIA and five other agencies had removed from public access more than 55,000 previously declassified pages. - Robert Gehrke Roy Webb, C.A. Multimedia Archivist Special Collections J. Willard Marriott Library 295 South 1500 East University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 office: (801) 585-3073 FAX: (801) 585-3976 [log in to unmask] http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo 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]>