qtp's Journal: National Security Archive

The National Security Archive is one of the truest examples of how the internet has the potential to change American society and the nature of the citizens involvement in government. Unlike many other conspiracy sites, the National Security archive consists mainly of documents that originated with the guilty parties themselves.

Some nice examples of what kind of collections that are housed there are:

Iran-Contra, where you can read the truth about what Rummsfeld, Cheney, Poindexter, and the rest of the G. W. Bush administration are all about. US relations with Iran are very important to understanding the history of the events in Iraq.

Breifing Book Two, where you can learn how the same Republican administrators who now work for GWB funded terrorist operations through the importing of cocaine to the US, and laundered the money through the sale of arms to the Contras in Central America.

The 1973 coup in Chile, which was planned by and controlled by the CIA, and also led to

the harrassment and murder of thousands of Cilean and US citizens by an "asset" of the CIA, the director of Chile's secret police.

the September 11th Sourcebook, which details the US relationship with terrorism, as well as our policies regarding Afghanistan during and after the Soviet occupation.
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Documents pertaining to the Reagan Administration's relationship with Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

After learning of the UK's release of classified information to thier National Archives in today's story, I began wondering how many similar collections of material are available on the internet.

Do you know of any collections of FOIA documents, or any documents pertaining to the activities of the US, Soviet, UK, or NATO intelligence agencies?

What are the best and most easily navigated collections?

Has anyone here made a FOIA request? What about and what were the results?

I have found numerous collections of articles and online books pertaining to these subjects, but they are mostly poorly documented (no footnotes, no bibliographies, no possible verification).

Could you help me find more verifiable information than the "traditional" conspiracy site seems willing to provide.

Some links

[EinarH]

Good post. Very interesting stuff.
Sorry for this late reply, I read that story including your post about The National Security Archive but forgot the whole thing.

As a European I really don't know much about FOIA so I cant't help you with that.
But I remember reading about it on the ACLU page:
Using the FOIA [aclu.org]
I read somewhere, that if you got hold of something through FOIA, fas.org, and probably also the National Security Archive, whants to see the documents so they can publish them. Kind of a "let's shar

Thanks!

[qtp]

This extremely helpful!

Youg link is broken

[adamy]

But Thanks for the comment. I'll check it out here shortly.

Thanks... Correct Link Here.

[qtp]

stupid typo.

The corrected link for the National Security Archive [gwu.edu].