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Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIA is supposed to be limited to foreign intelligence
  • Press releases, speeches, testimony before Congress, and publications including World FactBook and Chiefs of State
Commercial Publishers
  • Search MIRLYN for commercial microfilming projects
Declassified Documents and Other Sources for Secrets (Michigan State University)
  • Descriptive background on document declassification
  • Links to federal web sites with declassified material
  • Annotated links to non-government web sites
Declassified Documents Reference System (UMich)
  • Over 70,000 confidential, secret and top secret documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act and deposited in Presidential Libraries
  • Material includes White House, CIA, FBI, Defense Department, National Security Council, Atomic Energy Commission, NATO, United Nations and others
Digital National Security Archive (UMich Only)
  • Full text of declassified federal documents issued during the Cold War period
  • Many of the documents issued by the State Department, Defense Department, and Central Intelligence Agency
  • Subjects include: Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis, China, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Guatemala, Intelligence Community, Iran-Contra Affair, Iraqgate, 1980-94, Iranian Revolution, Japan, 1960-1992, Kissinger Transcripts, Military Uses of Space,
Executive Order 12958 (April 17, 1995)
Federal Document Declassification
  • President Clinton's Executive Order 12958 (April 17, 1995) changes the classification system for national security information while Executive Order 12968 (August 2, 1995) changes access to classified information
Family Jewels
  • A subsection of the CIA web site but also available separately through the National Security Archive
  • A 700-page document with possible illegal activities of the CIA (assassination attempts, wiretapping journalists, etc) collected by director James Schlesinger in 1973, and released on June 26, 2007
 
FBI Freedom of Information Act Archives
  • Thousands of historic records in Adobe Acrobat format
  • Includes the Rosenbergs, Lucille Ball, John Lennon, Al Capone, Roswell UFO
  • Arranged alphabetically by name or by subject category
  • Categories include: Famous Persons, Historical Interest, Espionage, Violent Crime, Gangster Era, Unusual Phenomena
Federation of American Scientists
  • Publishes the National Archives' annual classification review with data on the number of documents declassified and exceptions made
  • Web site also has federal guidelines and FAS commentary on declassification
  • Threats to national security
  • Background and full text on several terrorism threats in the past ten years
  • Journal articles reflecting the Federation's opinion
Federation of American Scientists ISOO
  • Publishes the National Archives' annual classification review with data on the number of documents declassified and exceptions made
  • Web site also has federal guidelines and FAS commentary on declassification
 
 
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