Thousands of Records, Irreplaceable Historical Documents and Art Still Missing From 9/11

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Posted on July 30, 2011 at 7:15pm by Christopher Santarell

Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president’s personal cameraman. Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that built the World Trade Center.

Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings to tons of rubble and ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of thousands of records, irreplaceable historical documents and art.

In some cases, the inventories were destroyed along with the records. And the loss of human life at the time overshadowed the search for lost paper. A decade later, dozens of agencies and archivists say they’re still not completely sure what they lost or found, leaving them without much of a guide to piece together missing history.

“You can’t get the picture back, because critical pieces are missing,” said Kathleen D. Roe, operations director at the New York State Archives and co-chairwoman of the World Trade Center Documentation Project. “And so you can’t know what the whole picture looks like.”
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more: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/art-records-lost-911-mystery/

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1. Have they looked in other local FBI offices?

http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/0403a/index.htm

U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Inspector General


December 17, 2003


MEMORANDUM FOR ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

FROM: GLENN A. FINE
INSPECTOR GENERAL

SUBJECT: Investigation Regarding Removal of a Tiffany Globe from the Fresh Kills Recovery Site

Attached is the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report of investigation regarding an allegation that a Special Agent (SA) from the Minneapolis office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), committed misconduct by removing a Tiffany & Co. crystal globe paperweight (globe) from the Fresh Kills site that was processing materials from the World Trade Center.

This investigation was based on a complaint that the OIG received from Minneapolis FBI Special Agent Jane Turner. Around the same time, the Minneapolis FBI office reported the allegation to the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility (FBI OPR), which also referred the matter to the OIG.

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2. Thousands of Records, Irreplaceable Historical Documents and Art Still Missing From

Baghdad.

N'est-ce pas?



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