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• Argentina Declassification Project - In response to nine separate requests for information on human rights abuses in Argentina during the military dictatorship in that country (1976 - 1983), the Department of State Reviewed files from the 1975 through 1984 period and identified 4,677 documents for release in full or in part, redactions were made for reasons of personal privacy, national security and foreign relations, including protection of confidential sources. • Allegations of Drug Trafficking in L.A. - The material in this collection consists of Department of State documents gathered as part of an investigation into allegations of U.S. government involvement with the Nicaraguan contra movement in drug trafficking in Los Angeles. • State Chile Declassification Project Tranche I - President Clinton directed the Department of State to identify documents that would shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence in Chile. The collection consists of about 4,000 documents. This initial release generally covers the period 1973 to 1978. Some information has been redacted to protect the privacy of individuals, sensitive law enforcement information, intelligence sources and methods, and other national security interests. WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL INCLUDED. • State Chile Declassification Project Tranche II - President Clinton directed the Department of State to identify documents that would shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence in Chile. Tranche II contains about 350 State Department documents, of which about 15 date from the period 1968-1972. Most State documents from this period are already declassified and available at NARA as part of the ongoing systematic declassification review program. Redactions have been made to protect individual privacy, sensitive law enforcement information, intelligence sources and methods, and other national security interests. WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL INCLUDED. • State Chile Declassification Project Tranche III - President Clinton directed the Department of State to identify documents that would shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence in Chile. Tranche III of the Chile collection was officially released to the public on November 13, 2000. This third and final release of documents finishes a discretionary review of U.S. government files. This final tranche focuses on events in Chile from 1979-1991, but also includes 1968-1978 documents located too late for the previous releases or that required extended review. Redactions have been made to protect individual privacy, sensitive law enforcement information, intelligence sources and methods, and other national security interests. WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL INCLUDED. • CIA Creation - 435 supplementary documents to Foreign Relations of the United States, 1945-1950, Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment, a print volume in the Department's ongoing, official published record of American foreign policy. This volume was unique in the long-standing Foreign Relations documentary series in that it documented the institutional foundations of the interrelationship between foreign policy and intelligence, rather than diplomatic policy formulation and execution. The volume and the supplementary documents were prepared by the Department's Office of the Historian with initial cooperation from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). • Amelia Earhart - a popular American aviatrix, disappeared in 1937 while on a flight over the Pacific Ocean with her navigator, Fred Noonan. The complete file on the diplomatic aspects of the search which followed her disappearance is in the National Archives. This small collection of sixty documents was put together in response to several Freedom of Information Act requests. The documents cover the time frame of 1974 to 1976 and deal with a review of the Earhart case and an investigation by the Japanese government of allegations that Miss Earhart was imprisoned on Saipan in 1937. • El Salvador Church Women - On December 2, 1980, five Salvadoran National Guardsmen murdered four American church women (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan). On May 26, 1984, the Guardsmen were sentenced to 30-year sentences. • Guatemala - In 1995 prompted by strong Congressional, media, and public interest, both President Clinton and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) requested the Department's records on the deaths of Michael Devine, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, Jack Shelton, Nicholas Blake and Griffin Davis, the abuse of Sister Diana Ortiz and the reported role of Guatemalan military Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez in the deaths of Devine and Bamaca. This collection is comprised of over 4,800 documents and covers the Bamaca case and other cases involving human rights abuses against American citizens in Guatemala from 1984 to 1995. • Raoul Wallenberg - a Swedish diplomat posted to Hungary during World War II, used his good offices to rescue Jews from deportation by the Nazis. Mr. Wallenberg disappeared shortly before the end of WWII and his whereabouts are still unconfirmed today. This collection of 1200 documents was put together in response to several Freedom of Information Act requests filed by Congressman Carl Levin. The documents range in date from 1944 to 1993 and deal with diplomatic efforts to establish Mr. Wallenberg's fate. • El Salvador - Documents concerning allegations of human rights abuses committed by Salvadoran security forces and FMLN rebels (1979 to 1991). The State Department produced these documents in response to inquiries by the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador and the U.S. Congress in 1993 - 1994. • International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) - The ITAR Collection includes charging letters, orders imposing civil penalties, consent agreements, etc. since 1992. • International Agreements Collection - The International Agreements Collection consists of agreements between the US Government and other foreign governments since March 1998. |
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