UCB Libraries

Declassified Documents

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  CIA has declassified information available from the Electronic Reading Room. Some of the collections are:
• The China Collection
  This contains National Intelligence Estimates from 1948-1976.
• The National Intelligence Council (NIC) Collection
  This contains analytic reports produced by the NIC on a variety of geographical and functional issues since 1946.
• The Princeton Collection: Analytic Reports Produced by the Directorate of Intelligence on the Former Soviet Union Declassified and Released for a March 2001 Conference at Princeton University
• Department of Defense
• Office of Freedom of Information Requester Service Center
  This web site contains information on requesting documents using FOIA, as well as a set of Frequently Requested Documents.
• Department of Energy
• Historical Nuclear Weapons Test Films
  "These films document the history of the development of nuclear weapons, starting with the first bomb tested at Trinity Site in southeastern New Mexico in July 1945."
• OpenNet
  This site provides "references to all documents declassified and made publicly available after October 1, 1994". Results include a description of documents and information that can be used to request a copy.
• Department of State
• Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
  This site provides access to "(a) frequently requested documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), (b) special collections of continuing public interest, and (c) regulations, policy statements, administrative rulings and manuals, and other reference materials."
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• FBI FOIA Electronic Reading Room
  This site provides electronic copies of files released in response to FOIA requests. The files are grouped into the following categories: Alphabetical Listing, Espionage, Famous Persons, Gangster Era, Historical Interest, Unusual Phenomena and Violent Crime. The reading room includes files on people and cases ranging from Cesar Chavez, John Lennon, Thurgood Marshall, and other notables to notorious cases such as the Atlanta child murders and Jonestown.
• FBI Files on Microfilm
  The Government Information Library has a number of collections of FBI files on microfilm, many of which are not available online. You can view these resources through a search on Chinook.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
  This library provides over 10,000 documents online. Currently the "Safe Files," "Vatican Files," "German Diplomatic," "British Diplomatic," "Hackett Papers," "Fireside Chats," "Selected Public Papers of FDR," and assorted articles, lectures, and photos are available online.
• Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): Complete List of Reading Rooms
• National Security Agency
  This site provides an information on declassified documents. To find files related to "U.S.S. Liberty," "VENONA," "Korean War," "Cuban Missile Crisis," "Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)," "John F. Kennedy Assassination," and "Truman Memorandum," use the search box at the top of the page.
• National Security Council
  Declassified policy papers, background documents, "Mill" papers, memoranda and directives, 1947-. This is a guide to the microfilm, please ask for the microfilm at the Government Information Reference Desk.

• Britain
• Cabinet papers : Series one: papers concerning defense and operational subjects, 1940-1945, Winston Churchill, Minister of Defence Secretariat papers. This is a microfilm collection, with an online and print guide (301-C11 6:Ser.1 PREM 3) available.
  One of the major themes predominant in the series is Anglo-American relations. There are many files covering the central direction of the Allied war effort, including the use of the atomic bomb, discussions on post-war settlement and Zones of Occupation in Germany, and the role of the United Nations. Also included is a wealth of material on the SOE (Special Operations Executive), covering intelligence operations and covert activities behind enemy lines.
• Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946 : subversion and sabotage during World War II. Series One, SOE operations in Western Europe This is a microfilm collection with a print guide (301-Sp 315:Ser.1) available.
  This is a collection of the SOE, the British spy agency during the Second World War. It includes details on activities, investigations, and specific agents.

• Declassified Documents Reference Service CU
  Full-text database of declassified documents from various government sources, such as the White House, CIA, and the Department of State.
• Digital National Security Archive CU
  This is a full-text database of declassified documents gathered around specific themes, such as Iraq, Japan, Kissinger, and much more.
• Federation of American Scientists
  FAS collects information on secrecy in government.
• George Washington University: National Security Archive
  The archive "was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository for these materials. Over the years, the Archive has become the world's largest non governmental library of declassified documents." The Government Information Library has microfiche collections and guides to many of these collections, please ask for them at the reference desk.
• TRAC, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
  TRAC provides comprehensive information about the activities of federal enforcement and regulatory agencies, which is submitted to a variety of sophisticated statistical techniques. There are separate TRAC web sites describing the enforcement activities and staffing patterns of the FBI, the IRS, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on welfare and welfare reform available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  declassified documents	declassified documents
  freedom of information	freedom of information
  secrecy and government	secrecy and government
  secrecy and government (government publications only)	secrecy and government (government publications only)

  
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• Freedom of Information Act
• Historic Documents and Exhibits
• Public Records