Also. the use of misclassification of documents to safeguard departmental errors is a point in favor of wider access. I can cite one case. dating back to the end of World War II. in which foreign policy and national security objections were finally removed as a bar to disclosure to the public of outofdate information. This case involves the Operation Keelhaul files relating to the forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Russian and other refugees and displaced persons in allied hands who were shipped back to the Soviet Union. The third objection to the release of the Keelhaul information was the necessity of obtaining the concurrence of the British Government as this was a joint AmericanBritish operation. I understand the British Government has yet to give their approval.
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