> We still have documents from WWII and earlier that are classified.

> Which of them do you think is protecting our current military?

Erm, atomic weapon details, nerve gas production, anthrax experiments (abandoned), long range rocketry, 2nd half of Shannon's information theory paper,

> How many of them do you think are protecting someone's personal agenda or dirty little secrets?

From WWII? Very few! As WWII historiography has shown, classification is an effective way of protecting information if and only if all those privy to the secret believe earnestly in keeping it. If something is classified for an immoral purpose, the chance of a leak is very high. Consequently when people want something private forgotten, they burn the documents, not classify them; classification is the way to them archived until they can be safely released.

In any case, any of the guys in a position to have things "buried" would have been at least fortyish back then, so if any are still alive they're centenarians by now.

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