14.īut, in a coup against the democratic concept of freedom of information, high officials at the Directorate of Operations, the CIA's covert-action division, have intervened to block public access to even censored records on U.S. These documents were reviewed and redacted - information on sources and methods was blacked out to safeguard national security - and readied for final release on Sept. clandestine involvement in Chile, from 1962 through 1975 - which includes the first two years of the Pinochet regime.
To their credit, CIA analysts did compile hundreds of records covering the whole history of U.S. By the time this process is completed, the documents. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield told the press that "the CIA recognizes its obligation to release documents on covert actions in Chile. The CIA sent "written assurances" to the White House that such documents would be gathered, reviewed and released. Last fall, the archive led a campaign to end the CIA's obstruction of the Chile Declassification Project, which forced Tenet to reconsider.
My organization, the National Security Archive, is a leading advocate for the public's "right-to-know" on foreign policy issues. When the National Security Council rejected that argument, the CIA blocked the release of approximately 800 covert-action documents found in the Nixon and Ford presidential libraries and submitted by the National Archives for declassification.
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