Craig Bruce Government Quotations

The main objective of this is to serve as an incentive to dealers and collectors to be much more aware of documents that were potentially stolen or taken from government archives. The second is to put unscrupulous people on notice that these activities are going to be watched. If they continue to engage in these activities, there's a good chance they are going to get caught.

It doesn't require the use of Web crawlers. It requires someone knowledgeable about the definition of what a government document is.

Certainly, auctioneers know how to identify government documents, but that does not always stop them from trying to sell them. What they don't know is whether these documents were part of the National Archives at one time or should be part of the National Archives.