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- Description
- The Declassified Documents Reference System is a full-text database of previously
classified documents that have been declassified by the Federal government. The database covers
major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, and includes
material in the fields of history, political science, international relations, American
studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more. Documents from
such agencies as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Justice Department, the State Department, the National Security Agency, and the White House are
included.
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- Dates covered
- Largely post-World War II to the early 1990s, with some documents dating back to the early decades
of the Twentieth Century, and up to the early years of the Twenty-first Century.
- Updating frequency
- Annual.
- Sources
- Cabinet meeting minutes, CIA intelligence studies and reports, correspondence, diaries, Joint Chiefs
papers, National Security Council policy statements, political analyses, Presidential conferences,
technical studies, and other archival material.
- Type of coverage
- Full text images, with some text blacked out by the issuing agency for security reasons.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- Declassified Documents Catalog (title varies), Alexander REF J83.D51 [1975-1996];
Declassified Documents Reference System (title varies), Alexander M-FICH 215 [through
2003]
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- GALE
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