This collection contains many thousands of important declassified government documents that led to American foreign policy decisions in the post-World War II world.
Making good use of the Freedom of Information Act, the National Security Archive at George Washington University has built large collection of contemporary declassified national security primary source documents which are digitally published thematically by Chadwyck-Healey. The National Security Archive's home page above should also be visited for news and current interest materials.
The following collections have been published:
- Afghanistan,
- Berlin Crisis 1958-1962,
- China and the US,
- Cuban Missile Crisis,
- El Salvador 1977-1984,
- El Salvador 1980-1994,
- Iran-Contra Affair,
- Intelligence Community,
- Iran Revolution,
- Iraqgate,
- Japan and the US,
- Military Uses of Space,
- Nicaragua,
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation,
- Philippines,
- Presidential Directives, Truman - Clinton,
- South Africa,
- Soviet Estimate,
- U.S. Espionage and Intelligence,
- U.S. Nuclear History.
For the most current information you may wish to visit the publisher's
'complete listing' and notes about
'upcoming collections'.
Some of these collections have previously been obtained by the Library on microform, accompanied with printed guides. Please browse Alice for complete listing of microform sets.
For a collection of similar materials collected by the various presidential libraries also see the Declassified Documents Reference System.
For further information of the classification of government documents, see Declassified Government Documents.
