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August 8, 2013 by Gary Price

New From NARA: National Declassification Center Issues Seventh Report

August 8, 2013 by Gary Price

From the National Archives and Records Administration:

The National Archives National Declassification Center (NDC) has issued its seventh biannual Report on Operations of the National Declassification Center, covering January 1 through June 30, 2013.
Since its inception in January, 2010, the NDC has assessed the 357-million-page classified records backlog at the National Archives and completed equity referral quality assurance on 278 million pages. The NDC has completed all processing of more than 118 million pages of this backlog.
In our last report, NDC Director Sheryl J. Shenberger noted the completion of the first measurable stage in the NDC process, that of assessment. The next and most significant step is the quality assurance evaluation for national security information. Directed by Executive Order 13526 to facilitate quality assurance measures, the center has implemented an inter-agency process of risk management to ensure records are reviewed properly prior to public access. The quality assurance assessment ensures that the records containing still-sensitive information are properly withheld and that those appropriate for release are indeed declassified.
Nearly 80% of the backlog records have successfully passed this step.
“National Archives staff and our agency partners have completed the quality assurance review for national security information on some 278 million pages. Through expedited processes and inter-agency cooperation, the NDC believes it is on track to complete the quality assurance for declassification on the remaining 79 million pages by the 31 December deadline,” noted Shenberger.
“This progress was achieved in spite of the inconsistencies of earlier reviews; the problematic referral markings; the unexpected impact of absent page-level review for Restricted Data/Formerly Restricted Data; and preservation emergencies, such as mold and brittle records remediation,” she added.

Highlights from Seventh Report

In the last six months, the National Declassification Center:

  • Continued the declassification review and processing of information relating to life in the shadows of the Berlin Wall (for the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s summer 1963 visit to Berlin). Approximately 200,000 pages, photos, audio, and video are being released. A release event is being planned related to the opening of these records on October 16, 2013 at the National Archives building in Washington, DC.
  • Prioritized the processing and declassification of almost two million classified pages from Presidents Truman through Carter Administrations in coordination with National Archives Presidential Libraries.
  • At the request of the Nixon Presidential Library, worked a special project with nine different agencies to facilitate declassification review of the withdrawn segments from the Haldeman diaries. The majority of this material was declassified and is currently being processed by the Nixon Presidential Library for release.
  • Continued to improve and streamline NDC’s data capture and analysis. The NDC Metrics Team provides end-to-end tracking for all NDC operations, identifying chokepoints in NDC processes and providing improved production statistics.

Ongoing NDC goals include:

  • Finishing the quality assurance within the backlog, segregating those that remain sensitive for national security concerns, and making the remaining records publicly available as soon as possible.
  • Providing special releases of specific historical records within the backlog based on requestor interest and demand.
  • Providing declassified historical documents in a more timely manner by tracking all records from accessioning to their final availability.

Full Text Report Available Here and Embedded Below

Bi-annual Report on Operations of the National Declassification Center Reporting period: January 1, 2013 – June 30, 2013

Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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