Rising Tide of Secrecy

1. National Security Archive, Suite 701, Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037 - Phone: 202/994-7000 - Fax: 202/994-7005 – www.nsarchive.org

2. Rising Tide of Secrecy Chart by Jaime Noguchi and Catherine Nielsen; The National Security Archive; www.nsarchive.org Information from the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) 2006 Annual Report

3. Number of Pages Declassified Chart by Jaime Noguchi and Catherine Nielsen; The National Security Archive; www.nsarchive.org Information from the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) 2006 Annual Report

4. The Bush Administration’s Rewrite of the Executive Order on Classified National Security Information: “Commitment to Open Government”“If there is significant doubt about the need to classify information, it shall not be classified. ________________________________

5. How Much Overclassification?

6. Reclassification—putting the toothpaste back in the tube

7. How Many andWhere Were the Nukes? What the U.S. Government No Longer Wants You to Know about Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War Released 1971 Released 2006

8. How Many andWhere Were the Missiles?

9. Intelligence Failure ReclassifiedCIA predicts no Chinese intervention in KoreaDays later, 300,000 Chinese troops cross the border Photocopied at NARA in 1996 Reclassified 10/16/01

10. Dubious Secrets Reviewed by the National Security Council June 1994 Reviewed by the National Security Council One week later

11. Secret Santa Released by the CIA in 1999 Released by the Ford Library in 1997

12. Pisco Sours, A Matter of National Security? January 1975 DIA Biographical Sketch on General Augusto Pinochet Released in 1999 Released in 2004

13. Real Costs of Secrecy