WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials from Poland and Polish Americans are celebrating the release of long classified U.S. documents on the 1940 slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers and prisoners in the Katyn forest on the western edge of Russia.

The U.S. National Archives released about 1,000 newly declassified documents on the massacre Monday.

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