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About
Secrecy News
SECRECY NEWS is an email publication of
the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Project on Government Secrecy. It provides
informal coverage of new developments in secrecy,
security and intelligence policies, as well
as links to new acquisitions on the Federation
of American Scientists web site. It
is published 2 to 3 times a week, or as events
warrant. Secrecy
News Article Index
The government properly withheld from disclosure the names of
certain individuals mentioned in old FBI records because it could
not be readily ascertained whether they were alive or dead, a new
appeals court ruling said.
The November 18 decision was the latest development in a longstanding
Freedom of Information Act proceeding in which historian Ellen W.
Schrecker has pursued disclosure of McCarthy-era documents from the
FBI. A copy of the new D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision is posted
here.
IAEA REPORT ON IRAN
The International Atomic Energy Agency will consider the status of
Iran's nuclear programs at its meeting on November 20. A clean copy
of the recent IAEA report on Iran in a reasonably small file size
is now available
here.
