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  • A Vision for the Digital Age: Modernization of the U.S. National Security Classification and Declassification System, Public Interest Declassification Board, May 2020

  • FAS letter to President Truman on "the problem of security in relation to scientific discovery", July 8, 1949

  • Excerpt from Safety Analysis for a Notional Timber Wind Flight Test, Sandia National Laboratories, no date (circa 1991)

  • DOE/NNSA Off-Site Source Recovery Program: Strengthening Cradle-to-Grave Control of Radioactive Sources, Bill Stewart, Los Alamos National Laboratory, December 2017

  • On Their Own Terms: A Lexicon with an Emphasis on Information-Related Terms Produced by the U.S. Federal Government by Susan L. Maret, Ph.D., 6th edition, revised 2016

  • United States Government Policy for Institutional Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern, released September 24, 2014 (via HHS)

  • Manhattan District History, Volume 14 - Intelligence & Security, December 31, 1945 (via DOE)

  • Department of Defense Internal Review of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, November 20, 2013

  • Security from Within: Independent Review of the Washington Navy Yard Shooting, Department of Defense, November 2013

  • Global Principles on National Security and the Right to Information (the Tshwane Principles), Open Society Justice Initiative, June 12, 2013

  • Understanding the Global Principles on National Security and the Right to Information (briefing paper), Open Society Justice Initiative, June 12, 2013

  • Transforming the Security Classification System, Public Interest Declassification Board, December 2012

  • Report of the Interdepartmental Group on Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information (The "Willard" Report), March 31, 1982

  • Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007 by Katherine L. Herbig, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, Technical Report 08-05, March 2008

  • The Need for New Legislation Against Unauthorized Disclosures of Communication Intelligence Activities, U.S. Army-Naval Communication Intelligence Coordinating Committee Special Report No. 1, June 9, 1944

  • Improving Declassification: A Report to the President from the Public Interest Declassification Board, December 2007

  • The Deemed Export Rule in the Era of Globalization submitted to the Secretary of Commerce, by the members of the Deemed Export Advisory Committee, December 20, 2007

  • National Strategy for Information Sharing: Successes and Challenges in Improving Terrorism-Related Information Sharing, National Security Council, October 2007

  • Origins of Defense-Information Markings in the Army and Former War Department by Dallas Irvine, National Archives Staff Information Paper, 1972 (Annexes [5 MB PDF file])

  • Final Report of the Nazi War Crimes & Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, April 2007

  • Access to information by the media in the OSCE region: trends and recommendations, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 30 April 2007 (Country Reports) (a longer analysis from David Banisar at Privacy International)

  • National Policy on Classified Information Spillage, Committee on National Security Systems, CNSS Policy No. 18, June 2006

  • National Instruction On Classified Information Spillage, Committee on National Security Systems, CNSS Instruction 1001, February 2008

  • The Judge Advocate’s Handbook For Litigating National Security Cases, Office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of the Navy, 2002

  • The Espionage Statutes and Publication of Defense Information by Harold Edgar and Benno C. Schmidt, Columbia Law Review, May 1973 (6.3 MB PDF)

  • Soviet Use of Declassified Documents, memorandum for Secretary Kissinger, National Security Council, October 8, 1975

  • Laws and Regulations Governing the Protection of Sensitive But Unclassified Information, a report prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, September 2004

  • Secrecy in the Bush Administration, prepared for Rep. Henry A. Waxman by the minority staff of the House Government Reform Committee, September 14, 2004 (600 KB PDF file)

  • Department of Defense Overprint to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual Supplement, Revision 1, 1 April 2004 (3.2 MB PDF file)

  • Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Governmental Public Domain Information by Paul F. Uhlir, UNESCO, May 2004

  • Security Classification of Information: Volume 1. Introduction, History, and Adverse Impacts by Arvin S. Quist, revised September 2002.

  • Gulf War Air Power Survey
  • Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens, 1947-2001 by Katherine L. Herbig and Martin F. Wiskoff, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, July 2002 (PDF).

  • Implementation of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, An Interim Report to Congress (IWG), 2002, National Archives and Records Administration Interagency Working Group, March 19, 2002.

  • Restricted Data Declassification Decisions, 1946 to the Present, Department of Energy, RDD-7, January 1, 2001.

  • Security Classification of Information: Volume 2. Principles for Classification of Information by Arvin S. Quist, April 1993.

  • Secrecy in International and Domestic Policy Making: The Case for More Sunshine by Senators Daniel P. Moynihan and Ron Wyden, October 2000.

  • Science and Security in the Service of the Nation: A review of the security incident involving classified hard drives at Los Alamos National Laboratory, by the Honorable Howard H. Baker, Jr., and the Honorable Lee H. Hamilton, September 2000.

  • Secrecy and Knowledge Production, Judith Reppy, ed., proceedings of a workshop at Cornell University, 1999.

  • Science At Its Best; Security At Its Worst, Report of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board on Security Problems at the U.S. Department of Energy, June 1999.

  • Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board, September 30, 1998

  • Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures, Report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, October 1997

  • Defense Department Overprint to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual Supplement, January 1998

  • NISPOM Supplement, DoD 5220.22-M-Sup. 1, February 1995

  • Report of the Fundamental Classification Policy Review Group issued by the Department of Energy (unclassified version), December 1997

  • Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, March 4, 1997

  • Redefining Security: A Report by the Joint Security Commission, February 28, 1994

  • National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual

  • International Programs Security Handbook, 1993

  • Building Public Trust: Actions to Respond to the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, March 1997

  • Classification of Compilations of Information by Arvin S. Quist, June 1991 (1.3 MB PDF file)

  • CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90

  • Security Practices Board of Review (The "Trefry Report") Final Report and Recommendations, Federal Emergency Management Agency, November 1992

  • Keeping the Nation's Secrets, A Report to the Secretary of Defense by the Commission to Review DOD Security Policies and Practices (the "Stilwell Commission"), 1985.

  • Provisions of Federal Law in Effect in Time of National Emergency, Report to the House Committee on the Judiciary, January 25, 1962

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