Records events in the Kremlin during the Brezhnev era from the diary of a participant.  From the National Security Archive

A collection of 17 documents on NATO exercises in 1983 from U.S. and Russian sources.   From the National Security Archive

Describes recent economic policy changes in Cuba, current U.S. policy toward Cuba, and recent legislation introduced in Congress about Cuba.   .  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

Describes the history since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the aims and levels of U.S. foreign assistance, and current mutual efforts aimed at counterterrorism objectives.  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

A collection of ten declassified national security documents that reveal plans for an automatic attack directed against the Soviet Union and China if the president were lost during an attack on the U.S.  From the National Security Archive.

Documents and analysis drawn from a declassified Defense Department report entitled A Historical Study of Strategic Connectivity 1950-1981 which reveals American vulnerabilities during the Cold War.  From the National Security Archive

A collection of documents that provide insights on Soviet thinking during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.  From the National Security Archive

A collection of declassified documents that reveal  new details about the confrontation between the U.S. Navy and Soviet submarines during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  From the National Security Archive

Describes the efforts of the Nixon/Ford administration to develop a grand strategy in foreign policymaking.  From the State Department

Considers whether former Communist countries which are now candidates for membership in  the World Trade Organization will be subject to the Jackson-Vanik Amendment which required countries to fulfill freedom of emigration conditions before they could receive normal trade relations status with the U.S.    From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

The last of 5 volumes covering U.S.-Soviet relations during the Nixon/Ford Administations.  Issues covered include strategic arms limitation, European security, the Middle East, Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union,  and more.  From the State Department

Describes the attempts at government formation and reconciliation in Nepal since the downfall of an autocratic monarch in April 2006   From the House of Commons Library

Focuses on U.S.-Soviet Union relations from 1969 to 1972 and the Nixon administration’s efforts to grapple with the Soviet achievement of strategic military parity with the U.S.  Also focuses on chemical and biological weapons policy and the transition from military conscription to an all-volunteer force. From the State Department.

Focuses on conflicts and collaborations between the two superpowers for a one year period in the early 1970s.  Documents the development of the Nixon Administration policy of détente and the crucial role of the private channel between Henry Kissinger and Anatoly Dobrynin.  From the State Department

Discusses the recent easing of restrictions on travel and money flows to Cuba from the Obama administration and the mixed response of Congress.  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the U.S. Department of State Foreign Press Center

Argues that NATO has evolved from a confident, mission-driven alliance with a clear objective to an organization in disarray 20 years after the demise of the Soviet Union.  Calls for a 2.0 version of NATO.  From the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College

A collection of declassified documents that reveals that U.S. officials initially saw advantages to the creation of the wall as a blockade preventing more East Germans from coming to the west.  From the National Security Archive

This volume critically examines the investigation of the Bay of Pigs operation conducted by General Maxwell Taylor at the behest of President Kennedy during the period from 22 April – 13 June 1961.

Previously declassified in 1998.

Contains info on the CIA’s negotiations with Britain and Latin American countries on support for the invasion

Contains info on the CIA’s negotiations with Britain and Latin American countries on support for the invasion

Part of the 4 volume CIA history of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba

Part of the 4 volume CIA history of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba

Part of the 4 volume CIA history of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba

The last installment in a diary of a former top official of the Soviet Union.  This section describes the last year of the USSR as Gorbachev loses control of the reform process he began.  From the National Security Archive

Presents a 1950s-era film made in secret by the Air Force and entitled “The Power of Decision.”   The film depicts a U.S-USSR nuclear conflict and the U.S. Air Force’s implementation of a “Quick Strike” war plan in response to a surprise Soviet attack.  From the National Security Archive

Reviews developments since Fidel Castro turned over power to his brother in 2006 and predicts that leading issues relating to Cuba for the Congress will be human rights, the status of its economic reforms, and offshore oil development.  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

The fifth installment of the diary of the man who was Mikhail Gorbachev’s chief foreign policy advisor, and an architect of perestroika and other major changes in Soviet Union foreign policy at the end of the 1980s.  With links to previous installments.  From the National Security Archive

Reviews events in Cuba since Raul Castro became president in February 2008 and actions taken toward Cuba by the 111^th Congress in 2009.   From the Congressional Research Service, posted by OpenCRS.org.

Contains links to a 50 page declassified article on the attempt by the Central Intelligence Agency to raise a sunken Soviet submarine in the 1970s.  The declassified article appeared in an inhouse CIA journal in 1985.  From the National Security Archive.