When the director of the National Archives found out that Berger was being investigated by the FBI for stealing classified documents, the director's first call went to.... Bruce Lindsey. That National Archives director was subsequently fired, but I suspect that before he left he likely destroyed the originals at Lindsey's request.
"When the director of the National Archives found out that Berger was being investigated by the FBI for stealing classified documents, the director's first call went to.... Bruce Lindsey. That National Archives director was subsequently fired, but I suspect that before he left he likely destroyed the originals at Lindsey's request."
How does this make sense ? The director would have to know which documents Berger stole, then obviously any indexing method they use to keep track of them would also have to be sanitized, so now you also have the FBI wondering just where the originals went. The director would also have to trust that the copies would never see the light of day after he shreads the originals.