Steven Aftergood describes a new report on the State Dept. Office of the Historian and the Foreign Relations of the United States series:

• Something “Very Wrong” in State Dept History Office, by Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, June 8, 2009.
• Management Review of the Office of the Historian, (Report Number ISP-I-09-43), State Department Office of Inspector General, May 2009.

With plummeting employee morale and departures of experienced staff historians, “something in HO is very wrong,” the Inspector General concluded. “HO is suffering from, and has for some time been handicapped by, serious mismanagement...

Under present circumstances, the task of the FRUS series, although mandated by law, is “almost unachievable,” the IG said.