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COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 18 (UPI) -- The head of the U.S. National Archives has put an end to secrecy about an agreement that allowed the Central Intelligence Agency to withdraw public records.
The 2001 accord allowed the CIA to withdraw documents at the College Park, Md., facility it considered to be improperly declassified.
"There can never be a classified aspect to our mission," National Archivist Allen Weinstein said of the agreement he learned about last week. "Our focus is on the preservation of records and ensuring their availability to the American public."
Like a similar 2002 accord with the U.S. Air Force, the CIA agreement barred National Archives employees from telling researchers who asked to withhold the documents.
While former National Archives head John Carlin said he was "shocked" to learn of the secret agreements, Weinstein told The New York Times that Assistant Archivist Michael Kurtz signed both and told Carlin about them.
The accords may explain the removal of 55,000 pages of historical documents from the National Archives since 1999, the newspaper said.
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