Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.
Articles about the Archive
"Daniel Ellsberg Never Ran Out of Secrets", The New York Times, March 3, 2023
"...the best people on declassification outside the media, the National Security Archive, month after month, year after year, put out newly disclosed classified information that they have worked sometimes three or four years, 10 years, 20 years to make public."
Daniel Ellsberg
National Security Archive Director Featured on Peter Bergen’s “In the Room” Podcast
IN THE ROOM with Peter Bergen, October 18, 2024
‘Kicking and screaming’: 50 years of FOIA
By Philip Eil, July 1, 2016
"Carnegie Results: The National Security Archive"
Explore declassified U.S. government documents, photographs, and more relating to Area 51, the Cuban Missile Crisis and more in this publication of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Freedom of Information Act 50th Anniversary
C-SPAN, June 28,2016
Eyes Only: [redacted]
By Peter Carlson, The Washington Post, May 8, 2008
Open Secrets
By David C. Anderson, Ford Foundation Report, Summer 2000