In the movie “National Treasure”, the theft of the Declaration of Independence from the National Archives triggers a dramatic hunt by rogue treasure-seekers and the FBI. It the real world, the U.S. National Archives Archival Recovery Team would have been involved.
The recovery team, a group of special agents and an investigative archivist tasked with tracking down lost or stolen National Archives artifacts, launched a new weapon: a Facebook page.
The recovery team, a group of special agents and an investigative archivist tasked with tracking down lost or stolen National Archives artifacts, launched a new weapon: a Facebook page.
Over the years, a fair number of documents have gone missing from the Archives.
You can read more in an article by Louise Radnofsky in the Wall Street Journal at http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/05/21/national-archives-hunts-lost-documents-on-facebook/
