The following is being posted on behalf of Jerome Kendall, Chesterfield
Records Manager
John Breeden

Cross-cut shredding will reduce the paper to bits the size of uncooked
macaroni, or smaller; the very expensive ones will nearly "rice" the
materials.  The bugaboo about strip shredding dates to the
reconstruction by the Iranians of materials that were strip-shredded by
American embassy staff during the Iranian hostage affair of the 1970's. 

It would seem to me that cross-cutting would be the way to go, although
you have to trust somebody sometime; we have our materials shredded at a
Weyerhaeuser recycling facility, and trust that they do not employ
persons intent on looking for Social Security numbers, or for anything
else.




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