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      "id": 103653,
      "date": "1998-10-16",
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      "title": "Nazi War Crimes Records Disclosure: Public Law No. 105-246",
      "summary": "Public Law No. 105-246, amends the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. \u00bf552) to establish\na\npresumption that Nazi war criminal records are to be made available to the public. This in effect\nrequires all materials to be released in their entirety unless a Federal agency head concludes that the\nrelease of all or part of the records would compromise privacy or national security interests. The\nagency head must notify Congress of any decision to not release the records.\n In order to help expedite the process, the law establishes the Nazi War Criminal Records\nInteragency Working Group. This group will to the greatest extent possible locate, identify,\ninventory, declassify, and make available to the public all Nazi war records held by the United\nStates. The law targets two classes of Nazi-related information  (1) : (1) war\ncrimes information\nregarding Nazi persecutions; and (2) any information related to transactions involving assets of\nHolocaust and other Nazi victims. This report provides a section-by-section summary of its\nprovisions and will not be updated. \n     1.  \u00a0The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) would be\namended by proposed section 4(a) of the bill which\nprovides for expedited processing for these two classes of information. In effect, it would appear\nthat this\nwould suspend the existing requirements under FOIA that restrict disclosure of information by\ncreating its\nown special category of rules for two classes of Nazi-related material which would be released\npursuant to\nan implied  compelling need .",
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