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The Role of the Historical Advisory Committee, 1990–94, in the Declassification of U.S. Foreign Policy Documents and Related Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Betty Glad
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Jonathan Smith
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina, Columbia
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1996

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The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to Vincent Davis of the Patterson School of International Diplomacy for his valuable comments and critiques on this work. Davis is the current APSA representative on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation.

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