Talk about a puzzler. According to the Herald in Everett, Wash., federal officials from the Pentagon, Energy Department and CIA last week removed several documents from the papers of the late Democratic Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson that are archived at the University of Washington. The security people picked through 1,200 boxes of material and departed with about 10 documents, according to Carla Rickerson, head of special collections. Most of the Jackson papers cover his years in Congress from 1941 until his death on Sept. 1, 1983. A defense "hawk," he was ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee when he died. His widow, Helen, donated the collection to the university after his death. At that time, a team of university library staff removed classified information before making the files accessible to scholars and the public.

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