Aftermath
As a result, journalists and researchers who had been demanding and obtaining government information sought to store it in one central location and in 1985 created the National Security Archive at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C..
The Archive obtains declassified government documents via the Freedom of Information Act, Mandatory Declassification Review, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony.
The Archive’s mission is to ensure and uphold the right to public access to historical documents and records that can provide background for and clarify the US government’s process of decision making.
Only private individuals and foundations including the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fund the Archive's USD 2.5 million annual budget. The US government does not fund the Archive.
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