DoD Historical Records Declassification Advisory Panel, (Fifth Session),

Abstract

Executive Order 12958, Classified National Security Information, requires automatic declassification of historical files over 25 years old. The Department of Defense (DoD) Historical Records Declassification Advisory Panel (HRDAP) was established under the Federal Advisory Committee Act as a subcommittee to the Historical Advisory Panel. The HRDAP charter is to recommend information and topic areas for early declassification priority, that would be most valuable to historians. The HRDAP is chaired by Dr. Alfred Goldberg, OSD Historian. Six civilian historians and the historians from the military services and the JCS comprise the panel. The transcripts for the open sessions are prepared by a contract transcription. service.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 11, 1997
Accession Number
ADA330525

Entities

People

  • Alfred Goldberg
  • Anne Cahn
  • Ernest May
  • Marc Trachtenberg
  • Melvyn Leffler

Organizations

  • United States Assistant Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Classification
  • Classified Materials
  • Cold War
  • Congress
  • Cycles
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Executives
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Life Cycles
  • National Governments
  • Public Administration
  • Records
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Military History
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense