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 80,000 of the most important, declassified documents - totaling more than 500,000 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 thirty-one collections:

1. Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
2. The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962
3. China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
4. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
5. The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
6. Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
7. El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
8. El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
9. Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980
10. The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal
11. Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
12. Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976
13. Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part II, 1977-1992
14. The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
15. The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
16. Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
17. Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
18. The Philippines: U.S. Policy during the Marcos Years, 1965-1986
19. Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to William Clinton (Part I)
20. Presidential Directives on National Security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush (Part II)
21. South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989
22. The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
23. Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002
24. U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947-1996
25. The U.S. Intelligence Community, 1947-1989
26. U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
27. U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945-1991
28. U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955-1968
29. U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945-1991
30. U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
31. U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975

DNSA's newest collection is Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000. Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other secret material. Contextual and reference supplements are provided for each collection, including general introductory material, a chronology, glossary and bibliography. Content is carefully selected by top scholars in the field.

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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