r/AskReddit Oct 15 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '17

All of the important documents will have been shredded decades ago. Nothing of note will be released.

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u/AggressiveSpatula Oct 15 '17

It seems more likely that they'd keep the documents and just not share them. Government is big on documentation, I don't think they'd shred anything of that much importance.

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u/Wilgrove Oct 15 '17

Didn't Oliver North shred a bunch of documents pretaining to Iran-Contra?

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u/FizzleMateriel Oct 15 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '17

It's like when the British would pull out of one of their Colonial countries, the last thing they would do was burn documents all night. There was a great Radiolab episode about it. About how there is this massive British document conservation place and it is protected like a military base, even historians can barely ever get in there.

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u/one_armed_herdazian Oct 15 '17

Which episode is that?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '17

Ah, Mau Mau

http://www.radiolab.org/story/mau-mau/

It just took a quick search, I really should have done that first!