About DNSA
ProQuest, in partnership with The National Security Archive produce the Digital National Security Archive, the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Over 94,000 of the most important, declassified documents - totaling more than 650,000 pages - are included in the database. Many are published now for the first time.
The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library, located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., which provides unprecedented public access to declassified government documents obtained through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
DNSA currently contains 39 collections:
- Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
- Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy
- The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962
- Chile: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1990
- China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
- Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
- The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
- Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
- El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
- El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
- Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980
- The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal
- 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, 1960-1976
- Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part II, 1977-1992
- Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part III, 1961-2000
- The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
- The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
- The National Security Agency: Organization and Operations, 1945-2009
- Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
- Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
- The Philippines: U.S. Policy during the Marcos Years, 1965-1986
- Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to William Clinton (Part I)
- Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush (Part II)
- South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989
- The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
- Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002
- The United States and the Two Koreas from Nixon to Clinton (1969-2000)
- U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947-1996
- U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis, and Covert Action
- The U.S. Intelligence Community after 9/11
- The U.S. Intelligence Community, 1947-1989
- U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
- 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, Part I: 1954-1968
- U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975
Documents have been indexed to permit item and page-level searching across more than 20 combinable fields. In its totality, DNSA offers the most powerful research and teaching tool available in the area of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence and security issues during the pivotal period of twentieth-century history.
DNSA also contains the CIA Family Jewels Indexed. Among the most controversial documents ever compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, the "Family Jewels" represents the CIA's own view, in 1973, of those domestic activities it had engaged in up to that time that were outside its charter, hence illegal. Totaling 703 pages and consisting of summary reports and supporting documents sent from CIA directorates and divisions to the agency's chief, the "Family Jewels" contains chilling references to CIA contacts with the Mafia, denials of involvement in assassinations, materials on CIA interrogations, surveillance of journalists and the antiwar movement in the U.S., penetrations of other federal agencies, a break-in at the Chilean embassy, cooperation with local law enforcement authorities, support for White House political activities, responses to the leak of the Pentagon Papers, and much more.
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