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PETER KORNBLUH
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Senior Analyst
National Security Archive
Suite 705 Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street,
NW Washington D.C. 20037, USA, www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv
Tel: (1–202) 994–7000, Fax:(1–202) 994–7005
The NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE combines a unique range of functions in
one non governmental, non–profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously
a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified
U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public
interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government
information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents
in books, microfiche, and electronic formats. The Archive’s approximately
$2.3 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues and from private
philanthropists such as the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and
the Ford Foundation. As a matter of policy, the Archive receives no government
funding.
The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists
and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government
under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository
for these materials. Over the past decade, the Archive has become the
world’s largest non governmental library of declassified documents. Located
on the seventh floor of the George Washington University’s Gelman Library
in Washington, D.C., the Archive is designed to apply the latest in
computerized indexing technology to the massive amount of material already
released by the U.S. government on international affairs, make them
accessible to researchers and the public, and go beyond that base to build
comprehensive collections of documents on specific topics of greatest
interest to scholars and the public.
