Testimonials
“The fiercely independent National Security Archive ... has rendered yeoman service in the pursuit of historical truth.”
- A.G. Noorani, Frontline (India)
“I have compiled this list with the assistance of researchers at the indispensable National Security Archive, a non-profit group that has published more than half a million government documents.”
- Michael Dobbs, The Washington Post (2007)
“The conference held at the Musgrove plantation on Georgia’s southeast coast in 1998 illuminated one of the most important periods in 20th century history: the liberation of the countries in Eastern Europe from Soviet control .... The National Security Archive rendered a service to historians and the public as a whole when it gathered declassified source material from both Soviet and American archives and invited scholars and several former officials to examine the historical evidence, comment on it, and discuss its implications .... The National Security Archive has once again helped us reach a more reliable understanding of the past in order better to deal with the problems of the present, and of the future.”
- Jack F. Matlock, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow (1998)
“LeoGrande and Kornbluh's exhaustive and masterful diplomatic history [Back Channel to Cuba] will stand as the most authoritative account of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations during the five decades of Cuban President Fidel Castro's rule.”
- Foreign Affairs (2015)
“For that matter, you will learn more about who wins and who loses in the real business of politics, which is governance, from the public interest truth-tellers of Washington than you will from an established press tethered to official sources. The Government Accountability Project, POGO, the Sunlight Foundation, Citizens Against Government Waste, Taxpayers for Common Sense, the Center for Responsive Politics, the National Security Archive, CREW, the Center for Public Integrity, just to name a few – and from whistleblowers of all sorts who never went to journalism school, never flashed a press pass, and never attended a gridiron dinner.”
- Bill Moyers, InTheseTimes.com (2008)
“Using self-promotional claims from a product web site as a way to sum up the sense of its value should be avoided, but in this instance they are pretty accurate and worth noting: “In its totality, the DNSA offers the most effective research and teaching tool available in the area of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence, and security issues during this pivotal period of 20th century history, and into the 21st century.”
- Gail Golderman & Bruce Connolly, reviewing the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) in netConnect (2008)
“Without the support of the National Security Archive, the historic mission of the Panama Truth Commission could have been diminished and even frustrated ….”
- Alberto Almanza, President, Comision de la Verdad de Panama (2001)
“The best testimony, well organized, undeniable evidence.”
- Sabrina Gullino, daughter of disappeared parents (Argentina), on court testimony by Carlos Osorio
“I am especially grateful for the work of the National Security Archive ... [It] is a national treasure.”
- Eric Schlosser, author
“The National Security Archive's Nuclear Vault is an essential resource for scholars and policymakers interested in nuclear weapons and nonproliferation. There is no collection of documents and other information that is more extensive, better curated and accessible than the Nuclear Vault. Indeed, the Vault is a "single point of failure" -- our community could not replace a resource of such quality and depth.”
- Jeffrey Lewis, New America Foundation
“[Critical oral history architect James] Blight has made a ‘massive and uniquely valuable contribution’ to the historical literature.”
- Philip D. Zelikow, former State Department Counselor and National Security Council staff member (2002)
“Challenging the prevailing narrative of U.S.-Cuba relations, this book investigates the history of the secret, and often surprising, dialogue between Washington and Havana ... Suggest[s] that the past holds lessons for future negotiators.”
- The New Yorker, review of Back Channel to Cuba (2015)
“ ... [I]n recognition of your decades of demystifying and exposing the underworld of global diplomacy and supporting the public’s right to know and of your pursuit of a more accountable and just world.”
- Text of the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership (2011)
“This is the missing book – the primer – on the craft of intelligence. It is a highly informed briefing, set in historical perspective, by the best of the spy watchers.”
- William E. Burrows, on A Century of Spies (1995)
“We don’t have words to thank you, our sister organization, and you personally [Carlos Osorio] for the effort, the dedication and over all the patience on this project which we thought would take so long to complete but is already in the final stages of finishing.”
- Rosa Palau, Deputy Director, “Archivo del Terror,” Supreme Court of Paraguay (2001)