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$30 Mil and 10 Years Later, Nazi War Docs Still Secret

The Obama administration may be revealing some of the war on terror’s ugliest secrets. Meanwhile, in the bowels of the federal bureaucracy, they can’t even manage to declassify documents from World War II. Despite "$30 million and 10 years" to do the job, National Archives and Records Administration hasn’t been able to okay for public […]

The Obama administration may be revealing some of the war on terror's ugliest secrets. Meanwhile, in the bowels of the federal bureaucracy, they can't even manage to declassify documents from World War II.

Despite "$30 million and 10 years" to do the job, National Archives and Records Administration hasn't been able to okay for public consumption all of the "records on the involvement of U.S. intelligence agencies with Nazi and Japanese war criminals," SpyTalk reveals.

Congress has just budgeted another $650,000 to finish the job - really, they're serious this time -- of poring through some 8 million postwar pages.

*"There's a million pages of Army and CIA documents left" to read and catalog, said Miriam Kleiman, a spokeswoman for NARA. *

Naturally, Kleiman says her group of paper-pushers shouldn't be blamed for the lag. It's some other bureaucrats' fault, she insists.