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About Digital National Security Archive

More than 58,000 declassified documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. The collections cover:
Afghanistan, 1973–1990;
the Berlin Crisis, 1958–1962;
China and the United States, 1960–1998;
the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962;
U.S. policy in El Salvador, 1977–1984;
El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980–1994; U.S. policy in Iran, 1977–1980;
the Iran-Contra Affair;
Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980–1994;
Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960–1992;
U.S. policy in Nicaragua, 1978–1990;
The Philippines: U.S. Policy during the Marcos Years, 1965–1986;
Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush;
U.S. Policy in South Africa, 1962–1989;
U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947–1991;
Terrorism and US Policy 1968–2002;
U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947–1996;
The U.S. Intelligence Community, 1947–1989;
U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945–1991;
U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968;
U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945–1991;
U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, 1954–1975;
Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954–1999;
the Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969–1977;
Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000;
National Security Agency: Organization and Operations, 1945-2009.

Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, e-mail, confidential letters and other secret material.

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