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• First Long-Term Study of Chronic Diseases in U.S. Threatened by Sequestration

  by Alison Bateman-House

  The Framingham Heart Study, which has been collecting data since 1948, faces a 40 percent budget cut thanks to congressional deadlock.

• SOURCE: LA Times
  8-21-13
  

  CIA closes office that declassifies historical materials

  The budget ax has fallen on a CIA office that focused on declassifying historical materials, a move scholars say will mean fewer public disclosures about long-buried intelligence secrets and scandals.The Historical Collections Division, which has declassified documents on top Soviet spies, a secret CIA airline in the Vietnam War, the Cuban missile crisis and other major operations, has been disbanded. The office that handles Freedom of Information Act requests will take over the work.