U.S. media: U.S. State Department suspected of secretly deleting content from its public historical archives.

An analysis article published by The Washington Post showed that the US State Department had deleted 15 pages from a historical document published on its website, without providing any explanation. It was reported that the deleted content related to the 1983 NATO exercise "Excellence Shooter 83" and the possibility of an accidental nuclear war with the Soviet Union. According to the author's analysis, the document initially released by the State Department in February 2021 indicated that the Soviet Union was reportedly engaged in military and intelligence activities that would only occur during a real crisis, including putting fighter planes on alert. However, this section of the report disappeared in the version reissued in January of this year for unknown reasons. The article emphasized that in 2022, the State Department website also mysteriously deleted a volume from the "Foreign Relations of the United States" series, again without offering any explanation. Since 1991, the US State Department has been required to publish a "complete, accurate, and reliable" history of US foreign policy 30 years after the events occurred. Declassified information is published in the "Foreign Relations of the United States" series, mainly in electronic form on the State Department's website.