• FOIA Released Documents
- This collection consists of releasable documents
on subjects which have been frequently requested by the public through
Freedom of Information Act requests.
•US-UK Communications on Iraq, Summer 2002 - The material in this collection consists of documents concerning US-UK communications over the use of Iraqi intelligence, the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and potential military action in Iraq through the summer of 2002.
•The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - This collection consists of the proposed Country Operating Programs (COPs) for fiscal years 2004, 2005 and 2006 for the 15 focus countries in The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. They are the proposed COPs submitted by the U.S. embassies in each country for each year, as redacted and released under the Freedom of Information Act.
•Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005 - This collection consists of documents regarding the Department of State's response to and acceptance of foreign governments' offers of relief assistance to the victims of the hurricane. The collection will be expanded over time as additional documents are reviewed and declassified.
•Telephone transcripts
of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (September 1973 to
December 1976) - This is a first release
of 5,770 pages of the roughly 9,600 pages of telephone transcripts
that the Department of State obtained from the Library of Congress.
An additional 3,600 pages are being coordinated with other agencies
with equities. The Nixon-era transcripts conform to the National
Archives and Records Administration’s review under the Presidential
Recording Materials Preservation Act. The Ford-era transcripts
have been reviewed under the Freedom of Information Act. The collection
contains the transcripts of conversations between: Dr. Kissinger
and former President Richard Nixon, leaders in government
and business, members of the press, foreign ambassadors, and prominent
members of the national and international communities. The transcripts
include records of Dr. Kissinger’s role in the Middle East
peace process, shuttle diplomacy after the 1973 Yom Kippur War,
the Cyprus crisis of 1974, US-Soviet Union relations, Strategic
Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) negotiations, and actions in negotiating
a Vietnamese peace treaty.
• Argentina Declassification
Project - In response to nine separate
requests for information on human rights abuses in Argentina
during the military dictatorship in that country (1976 - 1983),
the Department of State Reviewed files from the 1975 through
1984 period and identified 4,677 documents for release in full
or in part, redactions were made for reasons of personal privacy,
national security and foreign relations, including protection
of confidential sources.
• Allegations
of Drug Trafficking in L.A. - The material
in this collection consists of Department of State documents gathered
as part of an investigation into allegations of U.S. government involvement
with the Nicaraguan contra movement in drug trafficking in Los Angeles.
• State Chile Declassification
Project Tranche I - President Clinton
directed the Department of State to identify documents that would
shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence
in Chile. The collection consists of about 4,000 documents. This
initial release generally covers the period 1973 to 1978. Some information
has been redacted to protect the privacy of individuals, sensitive
law enforcement information, intelligence sources and methods, and
other national security interests. WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL INCLUDED.
• State Chile Declassification
Project Tranche II - President Clinton
directed the Department of State to identify documents that would
shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence
in Chile. Tranche II contains about 350 State Department documents,
of which about 15 date from the period 1968-1972. Most State documents
from this period are already declassified and available at NARA as
part of the ongoing systematic declassification review program. Redactions
have been made to protect individual privacy, sensitive law enforcement
information, intelligence sources and methods, and other national
security interests. WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL INCLUDED.
• State Chile Declassification
Project Tranche III - President Clinton
directed the Department of State to identify documents that would
shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence
in Chile. Tranche III of the Chile collection was officially released
to the public on November 13, 2000. This third and final release
of documents finishes a discretionary review of U.S. government files.
This final tranche focuses on events in Chile from 1979-1991, but
also includes 1968-1978 documents located too late for the previous
releases or that required extended review. Redactions have been made
to protect individual privacy, sensitive law enforcement information,
intelligence sources and methods, and other national security interests.
WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL INCLUDED.
• CIA Creation
- 435 supplementary documents to Foreign Relations
of the United States, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment,
a print volume in the Department's ongoing, official published record
of American foreign policy. This volume was unique in the long-standing
Foreign Relations documentary series in that it documented the institutional
foundations of the interrelationship between foreign policy and intelligence,
rather than diplomatic policy formulation and execution. The volume
and the supplementary documents were prepared by the Department's
Office of the Historian with initial cooperation from the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA).
• Amelia Earhart -
a popular American aviatrix, disappeared in 1937
while on a flight over the Pacific Ocean with her navigator, Fred
Noonan. The complete file on the diplomatic aspects of the search
which followed her disappearance is in the National Archives. This
small collection of sixty documents was put together in response to
several Freedom of Information Act requests. The documents cover the
time frame of 1974 to 1976 and deal with a review of the Earhart case
and an investigation by the Japanese government of allegations that
Miss Earhart was imprisoned on Saipan in 1937.
• El Salvador Church
Women - On December 2, 1980, five Salvadoran
National Guardsmen murdered four American church women (Ita Ford,
Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan). On May 26, 1984, the
Guardsmen were sentenced to 30-year sentences.
• Guatemala
- In 1995 prompted by strong Congressional, media,
and public interest, both President Clinton and the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) requested the Department's records
on the deaths of Michael Devine, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, Jack Shelton,
Nicholas Blake and Griffin Davis, the abuse of Sister Diana Ortiz
and the reported role of Guatemalan military Colonel Julio Roberto
Alpirez in the deaths of Devine and Bamaca. This collection is comprised
of over 4,800 documents and covers the Bamaca case and other cases
involving human rights abuses against American citizens in Guatemala
from 1984 to 1995.
• Raoul Wallenberg -
a Swedish diplomat posted to Hungary during World
War II, used his good offices to rescue Jews from deportation by the
Nazis. Mr. Wallenberg disappeared shortly before the end of WWII and
his whereabouts are still unconfirmed today. This collection of 1200
documents was put together in response to several Freedom of Information
Act requests filed by Congressman Carl Levin. The documents range
in date from 1944 to 1993 and deal with diplomatic efforts to establish
Mr. Wallenberg's fate.
• El Salvador
- Documents concerning allegations of human rights
abuses committed by Salvadoran security forces and FMLN rebels (1979
to 1991). The State Department produced these documents in response
to inquiries by the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador
and the U.S. Congress in 1993 - 1994.
• International Traffic
in Arms Regulations (ITAR) - The ITAR Collection
includes charging letters, orders imposing civil penalties, consent
agreements, etc. since 1992.
• International Agreements
Collection - The International Agreements
Collection consists of agreements between the US Government and other
foreign governments since March 1998.