Presidential Documents: Declassified Docs

The Digital National Security Archive consists of declassified government documents, chronologies, images, bibliographies, and explanatory essays on topics related to national security. Each collection covers critical world events, countries, and U.S. foreign policy from post-World War II to the present.

Full-text of previously classified government documents such as "National Security Council policy statements and memoranda and meeting materials; CIA intelligence memoranda and studies; presidential and cabinet correspondence; White House Confidential File materials; trade treaties, studies and analyses; cabinet meeting materials and correspondence; presidential conferences and visits; FBI surveillance and intelligence correspondence and memoranda; Joint Chiefs of Staff papers; U.S. government analyses and studies on international socioeconomic issues; U.S. briefing materials for meetings with foreign heads of state and government officials; FBI documents on American political personalities, events, and crises; and full-texts of letters, instructions, and cables sent and received by U.S. diplomatic personnel.