ongoing, excessive, needless secrecy. Large portions of the text are redacted, and the exemptions used to hide the information — and which should be cited — are missing. An October 1977 memorandum on “Peace Negotiations and Israeli Coalition Politics” is similarly overclassified, as are many (4/12)

of the other 250 records in the collection. It is not possible that all of this information, now almost 50 years old, must still be secret. The passage of time and the public interest in the records clearly outweigh whatever meager arguments might still exist for secrecy. The CIA’s secrecy (5/12)