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Archives Not Destroying Military Personnel Files By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2004 - The National Archives and Records Administration is not destroying any military records, officials here said. The agency is trying to counter an Internet rumor that advised veterans to apply for their Official Military Personnel Files to save them from destruction. There is no truth to this "urban legend" being perpetuated on the Web. "We heard it about a month ago," said Susan Cooper, the archive's public affairs officer. The records are stored at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. Officials...

“The staff of military personnel of the Classified Operational Archives created an arrangement system based on the Navy's command structure going from the President, fleets, forces, type commands, shore establishments, individual ships, non-Navy commands, non-US commands, to individual personnel. Within each section, the records are arranged alphbetically by the name of the originating command. All of the documents from one command are arranged chronologically by the date of the document. This system of arrangement was used for the war diaries, action reports, and operation plans received by the Chief of Naval Operations during World War II. From the beginning these...

The criminal probe into how and why former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger illegally sneaked classified documents out of the National Archives is going forward despite a report that no originals are missing, officials say. "The investigation continues. It's irrelevant whether or not there are originals missing. What matters is that removing classified documents without authorization is illegal," a government official said. The Wall Street Journal on Friday quoted National Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper as saying her agency is "confident" that no originals are lost — but she couldn't be reached and other officials declined to confirm that claim....

President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger -- who'd been accused of stealing classified material from the National Archives -- has been cleared of all wrongdoing. The National Archives and the Justice Department have concluded nothing is missing and nothing in the Clinton administration's record was withheld from the 9-11 Commission. The Wall Street Journal reports archives staff have accounted for all classified documents Berger looked at. Late last year they asked investigators to see if the former national security adviser removed materials during his visits. Berger's lawyers said his client had inadvertently removed several photocopies of reports, but later...

A senior spokeswoman for the National Archives denied a report Friday morning that Archives officials have cleared former Kerry-Edwards campaign adviser Sandy Berger on charges that he withheld documents from the 9/11 Commission. "In spite of what the Wall Street Journal said, the National Archives really isn't commenting on this case because it's under investigation," Susan Cooper, chief spokeswoman for the Archives, told NewsMax.com. The Journal reported in Friday editions: "Officials looking into the removal of classified documents from the National Archives by former Clinton National Security Advisor Samuel Berger say no original materials are missing and nothing Mr. Berger...

I just heard on the radio news that Sandy Berger has been cleared of any wrongdoing. Apparently the National Archives is saying that all documents have been accounted for. Has anyone else heard this? And no, this should not be posted under humor! I'm serious, I really did hear this on the morning news just now. WMAL 6:30 here in Washington, D.C., the Fred Gandy Show.

LITTLE ROCK — Construction crews still worked Thursday around the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center as the center's first two employees moved into their new offices. Staff members have been working out of trailers adjacent to the grounds. At the end of August, more employees will move into Sturgis Hall, a renovated train station that's part of the complex, said Skip Rutherford, president of the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. That will leave the trailer space for a growing number of employees working on the center's grand opening Nov. 18. Situated in a park-like setting on the Arkansas...

The Washington Dispatch Commentary by Paul M. Weyrich July 28, 2004 Every now and then I have loosely related matters I think would be useful to tell you, but independently do not warrant an entire commentary. So here are the items for your consideration: A number of important Members of Congress believe that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger leaked the problem he had about stolen documents on himself. The theory is that he knew he had been caught red handed. It is presumed that he knew the matter was coming to a head and would likely be made public....

<p>Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin was pushed by the White House in December to submit his resignation without being given any reason, Senate Democrats disclosed last week at a hearing to consider President Bush's nomination of his successor.</p>

WASHINGTON, July 23 - Officials at the National Archives were so concerned about Samuel R. Berger's removal of classified documents last year that they imposed new security measures governing the review of sensitive material, including the installation of full-time surveillance cameras, government officials said Friday. The new policy, issued March 31 to security officers at the archives, lays out toughened steps for safeguarding research rooms used by nongovernmental employees who are given special access to classified material. And it demands "continuous monitoring" of anyone reviewing such material. The restrictions were put in place as a direct result of the Berger...

Officials at the National Archives were so concerned about Samuel R. Berger's removal of classified documents last year that they imposed new security measures governing the review of sensitive material, including the installation of full-time surveillance cameras, government officials said Friday... Archive security officials use surveillance cameras at many of their public research sites. But the archives did not have cameras at the classified site in Washington that Mr. Berger used, and no video was taken of his research, officials said.

<p>Located four blocks from the White House, the National Archives are best known as the home of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The two founding documents are beautifully displayed in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom. Every day tourists line up for the exhibit, and after they're done, some step into the Archives Shop on their way out.</p>

Archives Installed Cameras After Berger Took PapersBy ERIC LICHTBLAUPublished: July 24, 2004 ASHINGTON, July 23 - Officials at the National Archives were so concerned about Samuel R. Berger's removal of classified documents last year that they imposed new security measures governing the review of sensitive material, including the installation of full-time surveillance cameras, government officials said Friday.The new policy, issued March 31 to security officers at the archives, lays out toughened steps for safeguarding research rooms used by nongovernmental employees who are given special access to classified material. And it demands "continuous monitoring" of anyone reviewing such material. The restrictions...

Archive monitors assigned to watch Sandy Berger review top-secret documents allowed the former national security adviser to break the rules and be left alone, the New York Daily News reported. Berger, the target of a federal investigation for allegedly smuggling secret files out of the National Archives, persuaded the monitors to leave him alone in the high-security room by saying he had to make sensitive phone calls, a senior law enforcement source told the paper. "He was supposed to be monitored at all times but kept asking the monitor to leave so he could make private calls," the official said....

WASHINGTON DC - (Sandy)"Berger repeatedly made requests of National Archive monitors to let him remain alone in the secured reading room. The excuse he used was that he needed to make sensitive private phone calls. He knew of course it was illegal for him to be left alone unmonitored as well as illegal for him to place phone calls from the secured reading room." "It is standing security procedure for anyone with Berger's clearance to be monitored while looking at classified documents from the underground vault..."

Published July 22, 2004 Guards left Berger alone, sources say Ex-security adviser reportedly told monitors to violate rules as he took breaks, took files. By James Gordon Meek New York Daily News Washington — Former national security adviser Sandy Berger repeatedly persuaded monitors assigned to watch him review top-secret documents to break the rules and leave him alone, sources said Wednesday. Berger, accused of smuggling some of the secret files out of the National Archives, got the monitors out of the high-security room by telling them he had to make sensitive phone calls. Guards were convinced to violate their own...

Archives Employees Suspicious of Berger... devised a coding system and marked the documents they knew Berger was interested in canvassing, and watched him carefully... employees determined that that draft and all four or five other versions of the millennium memo had disappeared from the files after Berger viewed them, WASH POST set to report, say sources... Developing...

Star chart in ancient Nara tomb to undergo restoration Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs released a photograph of an ancient astronomical chart discovered on the wall of the Kitora tomb in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, on Monday as agency researchers decided to remove the chart and restore it. Courtesy of the Cultural Affairs Agency The chart is pictured on the roof of the tomb with four circles depicting the ecliptic and other celestial paths. Since the chart is peeling from the roof of the tomb, researchers had been discussing how to restore it and other murals. Some had expressed opposition to...

LITTLE ROCK — The former director of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library will be named by the National Archives to run Bill Clinton's library when it opens here in November, a pair of sources told The Associated Press on Tuesday. David Alsobrook will be the director of the 12th presidential library when the privately built Clinton Presidential Center is turned over to the federal government Nov. 18, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Alsobrook told the AP that he couldn't confirm that he would be named director, but was assured that he would be the subject...

At the height of the Cold War, U.S. spy satellites were busy looking for those "Kodak instant moments" on a global basis.Now decades later, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) are spring-loaded to soon make available thousands of once secret spysat snapshots. Be it the Severodinsk Shipyard in the USSR, the cities of Hanoi and Beijing, or the Aswan Dam in Egypt - these and other localities were framed repeatedly by U.S. snooping satellites for intelligence-gathering purposes. Images The High-flying Keyhole-7 spacecraft provided the U.S. intelligence...