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National Archives: "Let us not abuse the defense secret, however justified it may sometimes be"

2021-03-08T19:07:48.720Z


TRIBUNE - Thirty-one eminent contemporary history specialists are worried about an interministerial instruction which authorizes the administration to refuse access to certain documents classified as “defense secret” beyond the 50-year period provided for by the law.


Everyone agrees, when he does not call, on the need for national defense secrecy which applies to protect our security, the fundamental interests of the nation and our public freedoms.

And everyone can force themselves to define their uses, both individually and in the public space that is collective to us, in the face of a major challenge or in times of war.

Read also: Secret defense: how the highest mysteries of the state are managed

However, safeguards are necessary in a democracy, where the state cannot think for itself, far from society.

The recent publication in

the Official Journal

of an interministerial general instruction of November 13, 2020 specifying the regulatory provisions regarding access to the archives of the nation reminds us of this.

Taking advantage of the last periodic revision of this text, the first version of which dates from 1952 until the penultimate in 2011, the government felt it had to go beyond the general provisions provided for by the law on archives of July 15, 2008, which already subject to a long delay access to

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Source: lefigaro

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