[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 45 (Monday, November 14, 1994)]
[Pages 2362-2363]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order--12937--Declassification of Selected Records Within the 
National Archives of the United States

November 10, 1994

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
    Section 1. The records in the National Archives of the United States 
referenced in the list accompanying this order are hereby declassified.
    Sec. 2. The Archivist of the United States shall take such actions 
as are necessary to make such records available for public research no 
later than 30 days from the date of this Order, except to the extent 
that the head of an affected agency and the Archivist have determined 
that specific information within such records must be protected from 
disclosure pursuant to an authorized exemption to the Freedom of 
Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552, other than the exemption that pertains to 
national security information.
    Sec. 3. Nothing contained in this order shall create any right or 
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by any party against the 
United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or 
employees, or any other person.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
November 10, 1994.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:17 p.m., November 14, 
1994]

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Note: This Executive order and the attached annex will be published in 
the Federal Register on November 15.