Secrecy News 09/25/03. This issue of Secrecy News from the Federation of American Scientists, has a brief article on the State Department publication Foreign Relations of the United States” (FRUS) and the “Historical Advisory Committee.” Steven Aftergood writes,
“… Johnson volumes on the Congo and Japan have not yet received clearance for publication. Why not? They don’t say.” Also, “the CIA is becoming more assertive in imposing new restrictions on the FRUS publication process.”

See the June 2003 meeting minutes here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/advisory/state/hac0603.html

Related posts:

1. Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee Final Report
2. Final report–California state publications project
3. State of the news media 2004
4. State of the First Amendment 2003
5. Bruce Perens “Open Source State of the Union” talk at LinuxWorld