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How many U.S. government documents from the 1950s or 1960s or even earlier are still classified? What is the process whereby documents get declassified? Is there even a general sense of the amount and general subject matter of still classified documents from decades past?

by /u/Medium-Librarian8413 in /r/AskHistorians

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