A Web-based Database of CIA Declassified Documents on the Vietnam

From vern.weitzel@undp.org Wed Aug 18 12:00:08 2004

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 04:44:22 +0700

From: Vern Weitzel <vern.weitzel@undp.org

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Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 23:52:01 -0700 (PDT)

From: Stephen Denney <sdenney@OCF.Berkeley.EDU

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note: one of the web sites listed below is http://library.usask. ca/Vietnam

It should read: http://library.usask.ca/Vietnam

- Steve Denney

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Stephen Denney wrote:

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AL Trade

AT A Web-based database of CIA declassified documents on the Vietnam war: during the Vietnam war years (1960-1975), the U.S. government generated a large volume of classified documents.

AU Vinh-The Lam

AU Darryl Friesen

RM COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group

Source: Online, July-August 2004 v28 i4 p31(5).

Title: A Web-based database of CIA declassified documents on the Vietnam war: during the Vietnam war years (1960-1975), the U.S. government generated a large volume of classified documents.

Author: Vinh-The Lam and Darryl Friesen

Full Text COPYRIGHT 2004 Information Today, Inc.

The declassification of these documents started with Executive Order No. 11652 signed by President Richard Nixon in 1972 [1]. Part of that executive order is on the Web [www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/ legacy_appendix.html]. Thousands of these documents, formerly classified as "Confidential," "Secret," and "Top Secret," are being declassified, made public, and are available for educational and research purposes. On microfiche, the documents were published by Primary Source Microfilm as Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS). The microfiche are abstracted, indexed, and published in a bimonthly periodical titled Declassified Documents Catalog (DDC). The DDC is now also published as a CD-ROM by Thomson Gale, while the DDRS is available through subscription on the Internet at www. ddrs.psmedia.com/.