By Matthew M. The purpose of this unique collection is to give the reader the declassified documentary record, such as it exists as of this date, about the successes and failures of the U. The reader should bear in mind that while the Cold War is over and the Soviet Union is no more, the U. Only now, twenty-two years after the end of the Cold War, is it possible to begin the arduous task of trying to tell the story in a dispassionate and objective fashion about the U.
Over the past twenty years, the U. But the vast majority of the U. This document collection contains 2, declassified documents 21, pages , most of them written at the Top Secret level, concerning U. Many of the documents you see here have only just been declassified, with over 5, pages of the documents contained in this collection having been released by the U.
More than half of the declassified documents contained in this collection were obtained from more than twenty-five different records groups currently held at the National Archives and Records Administration NARA research facility at College Park, Maryland, including the following:.
Other declassified documents relating to U. Smaller in size but no less important were a series of documents concerning joint U.
Since , the CIA and other branches of the U. This document collection contains more than five hundred formerly Secret and Top Secret documents concerning the U. And each year the CIA adds thousands of pages of new declassified documents to the CREST database, making it an invaluable future source of information about all aspects of the work of the U.
