Why the Secrecy? Only the Bureaucrats Know - New York Times

Wonder of any if those documents were from...say...1980 to 1999.

Why the Secrecy? Only the Bureaucrats Know - New York Times:

"SHHH! Don't tell anyone: The British and American intelligence services worked together in World War II.
What may seem to some an obvious historical fact struck a Central Intelligence Agency apparatchik in 2002 as a secret still worth protecting. He redacted a sentence describing the 'close coordination' of the allies' spies from a 1946 memorandum recounting war propaganda duties before approving its public release. For good measure, he also took out the number of American spies in 1946 ('400 in the field and 260 in Washington') and the name of Brig. Gen. John Magruder, then the intelligence chief.

The anonymous security reviewer's vigilance was for naught. Matthew M. Aid, a Washington historian, noticed recently that the memorandum had been published in 1997, details intact, in a historical volume by the State Department. The department had even posted the document's text on its Web site, where anybody can read about the 'close coordination' between British and American spies.

Why do bureaucrats insist on spending the taxpayers' money to keep aging government paperwork from the taxpayers?"