The Digital National Security Archive provides access to primary documents relating to US foreign and military policy since 1945. These documents are  from the National Security Archive, a  non-profit research organization founded in 1985 by  journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy.        

The  database contains over 95,000 records --  more than 650,000 pages --  of original documents most of which  were formerly classified and unavailable.  Although the documents may be available in Presidential collections or other archives, this database allows you to cross-search across all  documents by collection, subject  or  date  or to search the full text  by keywords.

Currently the database contains the following 41 collections:

  • Latin America Collection Set – 9 collections
  • Asia Collection Set – 9 collections
  • Middle East Collection Set – 5 collections
  • Human Rights Collection Set – 6 collections
  • Intelligence and Policy Collection Set – 12 collections
  • Cold War Collection Set – 7 collections

During this one month trial the entire collection can be accessed at https://trials.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=IMUPK60J9OVT0M6QV444.

Please contact marichards@jjay.cuny.edu with any questions or comments.