National Security Archive
The National Security Archive is a not-for-profit research and archival facility at George Washington University in Washington, DC. It was founded in 1985 by journalist Scott Armstrong.
tasks
It archives and publishes documents approved by the United States government on selected topics of American foreign policy . The archive collects and analyzes the documents from many different government institutions. These include, among other things, the secret services , which are obliged by the " Freedom of Information Act " to make documents available on request as long as they are no longer classified as classified information .
history
From 1985 to 1998 the National Security Archive was funded by the Fund for Peace, Inc. Supporters today include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation .
On October 1, 2007, Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced the US administration under George W. Bush to the publication of classified documents by the government. The 38-page ruling found the classification to be unlawful because it was "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion and inconsistent with the law."
On June 25, 2007, a partially blackened collection of files known as the Central Intelligence Agency's " Family Jewels" was released. Since 1992 there has been a struggle for publication according to FOIA.
In June 2015, the NSA, in collaboration with ProQuest, published the CIA Covert Operations II project on the ProQuest platform. This is a collection of 1,000 declassified documents that reveal the inner workings of US intelligence during the "Year of intelligence" (Eng. Year of the secret services) 1975. The documents cover the first year of the term of office of the President Gerald Ford from .
DNSA
DNSA is presented by ProQuest. It contains 45 compilations on world events, countries and political decisions after the Second World War and into the 21st century. The following content was available in 2015:
- More than 104,000 indexed released government documents
- More than 733,000 pages of material
- Glossaries , chronologies , bibliographies , overviews and photos
Web links
- National Security Archive
- Digital National Security Archive Collections
- Charity Navigator overview of the National Security Archive Fund
Individual evidence
- ↑ "court changes Bush decision on secrecy" , Reuters .
- ^ CIA's "Family Jewels". (PDF) full report. National Security Archive, accessed June 20, 2015 .
- ^ Siegfried Buschschlueter: The Crown Jewels of the CIA. Deutschlandradio online, June 26, 2007, accessed on June 20, 2015 .
- ^ Adrienne Woltersdorf: CIA shows bloody family jewels. Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba, Rafael Trujillo - who the CIA wanted to get rid of everything is now proven by released documents. Die Tageszeitung , June 28, 2007, accessed on June 20, 2015 .
- ^ A b Sue Polanka: New Online Collection of Declassified Documents Chronicles America's “Year of Intelligence”. (No longer available online.) No Shelf Required, archived from the original on July 1, 2015 ; accessed on June 27, 2015 (eng.). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
