Word: microfilming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safe," replied Curtin. "Everything is on microfilm somewhere in a cave in Pennsylvania...
Federal funding has allowed Harvard libraries to microfilm more than 10 million pages, but this accounts for only a small percentage of what needs to be filmed, according to Carpenter...
...tale of the missing documents began last summer, after the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research decided to refurbish six safes-actually bar-lock file cabinets that are kept in a vault. Their contents were to be transferred to microfilm, and the empty safes sent to Lorton Reformatory, a maximum-security prison in Virginia that had contracted to fix up Government furniture...
...called in to scour Lorton. Meanwhile the State Department launched an urgent "damage assessment" to figure out if any U.S. secrets had been compromised. The problem is, because no microfilm records had been made, authorities could not be sure exactly what top-secret information the mislaid safe originally contained. In fact, the only certainty last week was that, in the words of one State Department official, "there sure as hell were lapses all over the place...
...number corresponding to the depth of the sleep during the period, and then marked on a grid. Those numbers can be led into a computer to aid the diagnosis of the disorder. The strips of paper are used so that both sides are written on, and they are microfilmed and thrown away. The microfilm is kept, however, because there may be recurrences of disorders...