Brookings Institution Policy Briefs
The Brookings Institution, America's oldest policy think tank, has recently made a new series of its publications, Policy Briefs, available at its web site. These are short papers that focus on various aspects of US and international politics, economics, and foreign policy.
Cold War International History Project
The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world.
DOE Openness: Office of Human Radiation Experiments
This Department of Energy's agency is telling the Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects
. They have undertaken an intensive effort to identify and catalog relevant historical documents from
DOE's 3.2 million cubic feet of records scattered across the country. Internet access to these resources
is a key part of making DOE more open and responsive to the American public. Contains searchable archives
and multimedia exhibits.
FAS Project on Government Secrecy
FAS Project on Government Secrecy has been working to illuminate the extent of government secrecy,
challenging the political abuse of national security classification authority and other tools of the intelligence
trade throughout the executive branch and identifying remedial measures.
Former Secrets Gif images of previous classified documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Smoking Gun
The Smoking Gun brings you exclusive documents -- cool, confidential, quirky -- that
can't be found elsewhere on the Web. Using material obtained from government and
law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide,
we guarantee everything here is 100% authentic. is a Pierre-Salinger-free zone.
Soviet Archives Exhibit Stop by and view previously top-secret documents from the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union.