The National Security Archive
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The National Security Archive, located at George Washington University, “was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository for these materials. The National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions in one non governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats.”At this website users can find digital versions of hundreds of declassified government documents and images: casualty images of soldiers in the War with Iraq, al-Quada memos, Saddam Hussein sourcebooks, Negroponte files, Holocaust files, September 11th sourcebooks, and documents and images of the extraordinary meeting between Elvis and Nixon.Archive projects cover the following topics:
- Chile
- China and the United States
- China and the Bomb
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- India-Pakistan
- Indonesia
- Intelligence Policy
- Iran
- Israel
- Japan
- Mexico
- Nuclear History
- Openness in Russia and Eastern Europe
This is also a great resource for information about, as well as the text of, the Freedom of Information Act.
