Digital National Security Archive - (DNSA)

This resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.

Included databases

  • Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973–1990
  • Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy
  • The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1962
  • Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990
  • China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998
  • CIA Covert Operations II: The Year of Intelligence, 1975
  • CIA Family Jewels Indexed
  • Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited:  An International Collection, From Bay of Pigs to Nuclear Brink
  • Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Ops, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
  • Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden
  • El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1984
  • El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980–1994
  • Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1980
  • The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983–1988
  • Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980–1994
  • Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960–1976
  • Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1977–1992
  • The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969–1977
  • The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement II: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
  • The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
  • The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
  • Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013
  • Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978–1990
  • Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
  • The Philippines: U.S. Policy During the Marcos Years, 1965–1986
  • Presidential Directives on National Security, Part I: From Truman to Clinton
  • Presidential Directives on National Security, Part II: From Truman to George W. Bush
  • South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962–1989
  • The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947–1991
  • Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968–2002
  • U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947–1996
  • U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action
  • The U.S. Intelligence Community: Organization, Operations and Management, 1947–1989
  • The U.S. Intelligence Community After 9/11
  • U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
  • U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945–1991
  • U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968
  • U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945–1991
  • U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
  • U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975
  • The United States and the Two Koreas, Part II, 1969-2010
  • The United States and the Two Koreas (1969-2000)
Coverage Dates:
1945 - present