The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) electronic reading room of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offers several primary source collections for the study of Central and Eastern Europe during and after the Cold War period.
The FOIA Electronic Reading Room web site was established by the CIA "to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents."
Direct web access to the following collections is now possible:
Many documents for post-war European History belonging to the CIA are also accessible in the Cengage Learning DDRS - Declassified Documents Reference System database subscribed by the EUI Library and only accessible on site at the EUI for copyright matters. The USA DDRS includes documents made available through the US Freedom of Information Act from the period immediately after World War II through the 1970's. Documents are available as keyed searchable texts and as digital facsimiles.
