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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: Classified Documents and the CIA

Date: July 17, 1998

The CIA has announced that it is delaying the declassification and release of documents pertinent to operations during the 1950s and 1960s. The declassification, mandated by Congress, has'swamped' the CIA.

Citing insufficient resources to release all the materials required, the CIA is slated to release documents pertaining to operations in North Korea and Laos in the near future. However, critics claim that the CIA is stonewalling in the process because they want to 'let sleeping dogs lie.'

Among 'TOP PRIORITY' materials to be released the CIA lists the fllowing; the assassination of President Kennedy, documents used in the State Department's "Foreign Relations of the United States" series, freedom-of-information requests, POW-MIA issues from Vietnam and previous wars, Gulf War illness, and Nazi gold. There are 250 CIA staffers working on the declassification project.