Crossword clues for declassification
The Collaborative International Dictionary
declassification \declassification\ n. reduction by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of declassifying, process of making non-restricted. 2 An instance of the declassifying process.
WordNet
n. reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon [ant: classification]
Wikipedia
Declassification is the process of documents that used to be classified as secret ceasing to be so restricted, often under the principle of freedom of information. Procedures for declassification vary by country. Papers may be withheld without being classified as secret, and eventually made available.
Usage examples of "declassification".
In the most patriotic act of his career, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan would push through the declassification of the Venona Project, which was finally unveiled on July 11, 1995.
Anyway, declassification and even a reprimand were preferable to working under that petulant little creep.
This directive is exempted from routine downgrading and declassification and shall not be reproduced except by order of the President.
As part of the project, a unique facility was built: the Automated Declassification System.
Then, after consulting databases containing declassification guidance, specialists magically erase still-sensitive information from the now electronic documents.
Take the classic example of the declassification of the secret of the atom bomb.
Men who found themselves faced with the prospect of the desperate minimum involved in declassification, after half a lifetime of effort, could not decide cold-bloodedly that individual robots were not to blame.
Medievalist movement expanded along with the declassification process.
That the one way of defeating declassification was to show that guilt lay in Spacetown itself .
The key findings of the Taylor Report, like many other top-secret studies, were selectively IeaLed decades before the declassification process was completed.
However, at each level, once the security had been breached for whatever reason -even by design - part of the secret was disclosed through declassification while the rest was dragged into a new classified project or moved to an existing one that had not been compromised.
Corsi had a vague recollection of reading an update about the declassification of that technology.
First will you give a waiver under the Privacy Act to support full declassification of this memo so we can see exactly what you and President Ford said to Suharto?
All material had undergone strict declassification, of course, including any reference to names or specific locations of the agents.
At the very least we can push for declassification of relevant information from decades ago, of which the July 1994 Air Force report on the 'Roswell Incident' is a good example.