This collection provides a detailed description of the varied civilian and military organizations that constitute the U.S. intelligence community, their past and present operations, and the mechanisms by which the community's activities are managed. Specific types of documents obtained include organization and functions manuals; unit, agency, and departmental regulations; command histories; interagency directives; evaluations of intelligence community performance; and assorted memoranda.
This is a compilation of declassified documents concerning U.S. intelligence activities directed at both the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China, from 1945 to the present. Collectively, the records cover a wide time period, a number of collection activities, and analytical products concerning the target nations’ foreign policies; military policies and forces; domestic policies; economies; science, technology and industry; and leadership.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York and Washington led to profound changes in U.S. foreign and defense policy, internal security practices, and organization for national security - including dramatic changes in the organization and operations of the U.S. Intelligence Community. This collection reflects the National Security Archive's interest in documenting the organizational and operational changes in the U.S. Intelligence Community since the attacks.
This collection provides researchers with the most comprehensive structural portrait of the U.S. espionage establishment every published. Specific types of documents obtained include organization and functions manuals; unit, agency and departmental regulations; command histories; interagency directives; and assorted memoranda. In addition, a small number of unclassified brochures, fact sheets and pamphlets distributed by various elements of the intelligence community have been incorporated into the collection.
This collection documents the U.S. Intelligence Community’s production of intelligence concerning the most important weapons systems that other nations produced or tried to produce during World War II, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War era. Whether those nations were friendly, neutral or hostile, U.S. decision-makers were intensely interested in intelligence concerning their WMD and space systems.
The set provides a detailed record of U.S. military space organizations, operations and policy from 1945 to the present. The collection provides details concerning the origins of military space programs, the evolution of programs and policy, the capabilities of various space systems and the operational use of space systems. The organization and functions manuals in the set provide detailed data on the structure and role of organizations involved in space systems development and operations.
This collection comprehensively documents major developments in U.S. nuclear weapons policies and programs from the mid-1950s through 1968, the period that set the nuclear stage for the decades of the Cold War that followed. Given the importance of the nuclear competition to superpower tensions during the post-World War II era, not only as a source of friction in itself but as an element that made the tensions inconceivably dangerous, the documents in this collection introduce the reader to one of the critical inner mechanisms of the Cold War.
This collection provides a documentary record of the nuclear activities and policy process of the U.S. government from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the IAEA inspections of the Iraqi nuclear program. It should be noted that the document set focuses almost exclusively on the states that are known to possess nuclear arms, including the "de facto" nuclear weapons states--Israel, India, Pakistan and South Africa.
This collection documents the deadliest conflict in modern U.S. history prior to the current war against terrorism. The goal was to assemble both classic and relatively well-known documentary sources as well as the most recent declassified materials, making a single comprehensive resource for primary substantive research on the Vietnam conflict. The principal focus of this collection is on the period of the Vietnam War between 1961 and 1968.
This is the most important compilation of documents available on the final phase of the Vietnam War. Incorporating newly released documents, virtually all previously classified, it covers all the major issues from the period, including diplomatic, military, and intelligence aspects of the Vietnam war during the period of the Nixon and Ford administrations.
Ulrichsweb is a database containing detailed information on over 300,000 periodicals of all types. Each record includes ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, whether the periodical is referred or not, and reviews written by librarians.
This is a collection of recently declassified records, combined with selected documents from the WikiLeaks database, documenting the history of U.S. policy toward and relations with South and North Korea from the Nixon to the first Obama administrations. It serves as an addition to and an extension of the first National Security Archive document set on U.S.-Korea relations. The records cover a wide range of issues, including foreign policy, defense policy, economic and trade relations, and intelligence assessments.
The United States and the Two Koreas: 1969-2000 is a collection of recently declassified records documenting the history of U.S. policy toward and relations with South and North Korea from the Nixon to the Clinton administrations. The records cover a wide range of issues, including foreign policy, defense policy, economic and trade relations, and intelligence assessments.