Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents, leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, and public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information.
The Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) website lets you find and download documents from the National Security Archive. Documents are organized in thematic collections, so you can browse an individual set of documents or search across multiple collections. Research analysts at the National Security Archive select the documents included in each collection and tag documents by subject to make them easier to find.
