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US President Nixon appeared to liberalize US secrecy regulations. He issued Executive Order 11652 to reduce the number of agencies and officials allowed to stamp documents secret. The Order also created an automatic procedure for declassification. The problem, however, was that it broadened the types of documents that could be classified as Top Secret.

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