@wizardmanperson There may be something classified on the tape.

More likely the NSA has just disregarded anything from before 2000. I was doing a consulting job recently IRL with a client where I needed records from the early 80's and found out that they had destroyed anything from before 1994 long ago.

The NSA may be the same, anything nonessential from that era is just disregarded and this is one of them.