Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents («the world’s largest nongovernmental collection» according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.
All-Source Intelligence Report finds US-Soviet Nuclear Relations on "Hair Trigger" in 1983…
U.S. Ambassador Wayne said state was "blaming victims" and "denying any responsibility"…
Documents from 1970s Presage Issues Surrounding July 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Deal with P5+1…
Documents show accident and contingency, anxiety in world capitals.…
Chinese Military Was Split over Bloody Suppression of 1989 Student Protests, DIA Reported…
D.C. Circuit split decision rules CIA Draft History can be kept secret indefinitely.…
New documentation paints complex picture of informant and his warnings…
Kissinger pressed Nixon to overthrow the democratically elected Allende government because his "'model' effect can be insidious," documents show…
"Brinkmanship" Seen As a "Mainstay of the North's Negotiating Repertoire," Say State Department Records…
Declassified Documents Show Failed Intelligence, Policy Ad Hockery, Propaganda-Driven Decisionmaking.…
The Prize Memorializes President Nixon's Secretary Who Erased Watergate Tapes…
Cold-War DSP System is now in the process of transition to SBIRS. First SBIRS GEO Scheduled to become operational in January 2013.…