Activists of «Команда 29» were refused in opening the archive of USSR. Commission for Protection of state secrets claimed that this information of thw work of Cheka from 1917 is «still relevant», and its publication will harm national safety of Russia.
The spokesman of «Команды 29» Aleksander Tsigankov (Александр Цыганков) told «Газете.Ru». that after the petition (
петиция) for opening archives at change.org gathered more than 50 000 signs, it was sent to Interdepartmental Commission on Protection of State Secrets. And the answer came.
«Interdepartmental Commission on Protection of State Secrets concluded that there is information about the forces and means of intelligence, counterintelligence and operational-search activities, as well as activities in the field of counter-terrorism security authorities during the period (1917–1991 years. — «Газета.Ru»), — tell the Commission. —
these information is still relevant today, because their distribution is likely to harm the security of the Russian Federation, and thus needs extension of the secrecy period».
Thus till 2044 the label «state secret»will be on all documents, containing information about the forces and means of intelligence counterintelligence and operational-search activities, about all persons who co-worked with any of state services on secret basement,about any and all state service officials, participating in special operations, etc. — it has a list of categories of info including 23 points and can extent the secrecy status of almost every and all documents signed in the period from 1917 to 1991 years.
Also activists fear that a lot of documents concerning «Big Terror» of 1937–1938 will also be concealed to 2044.
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