Documents

In the course of preparing Toward “Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable,” Joshua Botts, author of the chapters covering recent decades, relied on many documents that had not yet been released to the public. All those documents have now been reviewed for declassification and approved for release; in some cases, documents were released with excisions. Over the coming year, the Office of the Historian will periodically post some of these records on this website. Check back occasionally for the latest additions.

63 documents, sorted by date posted (most recent batch first). (Sort by document date.)

• February 25, 2015
  1. Transcript of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1959

• February 13, 2015
  1. Transcript of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1958

• July 10, 2014
  1. Transcript of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1960

• June 23, 2014
  1. Memorandum From Arthur Kogan to William Franklin, September 1972

• June 2, 2014
  1. Summary of Unofficial Meeting Between HAC Members and Department Officials, July 1990
  2. Record of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, March 1991
  3. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, June 1991

• May 19, 2014
  1. Record of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1971
  2. Record of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1972
  3. Record of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1973
  4. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1974
  5. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1975
  6. Annex to Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1975

• May 5, 2014
  1. Record of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1970
  2. Memorandum From David Trask to the Historical Advisory Committee, January 1980
  3. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1981
  4. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1982

• April 21, 2014
  1. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1967
  2. Record of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1968
  3. Record of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1969

• April 8, 2014
  1. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1964
  2. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1965
  3. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1966

• March 24, 2014
  1. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1976
  2. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1977
  3. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1978

• March 10, 2014
  1. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1983
  2. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1984
  3. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1985

• February 24, 2014
  1. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1986
  2. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, January 1988
  3. William Slany Report on Informal HAC Meeting, January 1988
  4. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, December 1988

• February 10, 2014
  1. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1961
  2. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1962
  3. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1963

• January 27, 2014
  1. Memorandum From Bernard Noble to Melville Osborne, November 1958
  2. Memorandum From William Slany and Edwin Costrell to PA/HO Staff, October 1976
  3. Office of the Historian Research Project on Department of State Publication of Foreign Government Documents, June 1981

• January 22, 2014
  1. Memorandum of Conversation Among HO and CIA Officials, September 1979
  2. Letter From John Glennon to Gale W. Allen, September 1979
  3. Letter From Gale Allen to David Baehler, October 1979
  4. Letter From David Trask to Gale Allen, February 1980
  5. Letter From Thomas White to David Trask, July 1980

• January 13, 2014
  1. Memorandum of Conversation Between Charles Redman and HAC Members, June 1988
  2. Information Memorandum From C. Edward Dillery to Ronald Spiers, August 1988

• January 6, 2014
  1. Letter From William Webster to David Boren, June 1990
  2. Draft Letter From W. Lee Rawls to Richard Darman, October 1990

• December 24, 2013
  1. Meeting Between Henry Kissinger and the HAC, November 1976
  2. Report From William Slany to Congress, July 1984

• December 16, 2013
  1. Action Memorandum From William Blair Through Lawrence Eagleburger to Henry Kissinger, November 1976
  2. Memorandum From Francis Terry McNamara and David Trask to William Dyess, March 1981

• December 9, 2013
  1. Correspondence Between Richard Leopold and George Kennan, February-March 1957
  2. Clarence Berdahl Report on Consultantship in the Historical Office, August 1961
  3. Memorandum From Fredrick Aandahl Through William Franklin to Carol Laise, November 1973
  4. Memorandum of Conversation Among HO and CIA Officials, August 1979
  5. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1980
  6. Memorandum From N. Stephen Kane Through Paul Claussen and William Slany to David Trask, March 1981
  7. Memorandum From Ronald Spiers to Charles Redman, November 1988
  8. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1989
  9. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee Meeting, November 1990
  10. Memorandum From Kim Hoggard to Ivan Selin, December 1990
  11. Telegram From the Embassy in Greece to the Department of State, August 2002