The National Security Archive, founded in 1985 by Scott Armstrong, is a nonprofit project of the Fund for Peace. Armstrong left in 1989 under pressure from Fund for Peace executive director Nina Solarz, who was apparently under pressure from the Ford Foundation, their major financial backer. NSA continues its good work today, despite the involvement of too many DC hardball players with different agendas. In 1989 they had an annual budget of $1.5 million and a staff of 35. NSA specializes in collecting (through FOIA litigation and other means), collating, indexing, and disseminating (to public libraries and researchers), documents from U.S. government agencies that relate to foreign policy and national security.
The Chronology draws on some government documents, but this is mostly
a compilation of Iran-contra tidbits from the media, beginning in 1980 and
getting progressively more detailed through 1986 -- a year that takes 400
pages of the book. It is valuable for researchers who need to understand
how specific events may have fit into a larger pattern. There is a complete
index and no conclusion, which somehow seems appropriate five years later.
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