The Archivist's Silence
A National Archive processor discovers her Oregon hometown was systematically erased from all federal records for four years—but she remembers living there.
Sarah Delacroix had been processing declassified files for the National Archive's Pacific Northwest Regional Facility for six years when she noticed the gap. It started innocuously enough—a routine afternoon sorting through boxes of newly released FBI surveillance records from the 1980s. Regional field office reports, mostly mundane observations about suspected communist sympathizers and anti-nuclear protesters. Nothing u...
