State Department Topical Collections

Allegations of Drug Trafficking in Los Angeles: Documents gathered as part of an investigation into allegations of U.S. Government involvement with the Nicaraguan Contra movement in drug trafficking in Los Angeles.
AMIA Bombing: Records on the July 18, 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which has been disputedly attributed to Hezbollah.
Argentina Declassification Project: The Argentina Declassification Project represents nearly 20 years of effort by U.S. government departments and agencies to release all information about human rights abuses in Argentina between 1975 and 1983. In 2002, the Department of State released 4,600 records pertaining to this critical time period. Following a request by President Mauricio Macri and human rights groups in Argentina, in 2016 and 2017 the U.S. government released nearly 2,000 additional documents. With this final release, the Department of State adds an additional 2,154 records to the collection which, all told, includes 5,596 records from 16 different agencies.
Bay of Pigs: Documents relating to the Bay of Pigs invasion as published in Foreign Relations of the United States.
Brazil Human Rights Declassification Project: Records compiled by the National Archives relating to the military regime in Brazil.
Cablegate: 251,000 leaked diplomatic cables from 1966-2010.
Che Guevara: Records from the State Department and other agencies concerning Che Guevara.
Colombia: Records released by the State Department on oil pipelines in Colombia, along with the Antioquia Massacre.
El Salvador Declassification Project: This collection of over 7,800 documents consists of documents processed under three different El Salvador Human Rights special projects cases. Documents concerning allegations of human rights abuses committed by Salvadoran security forces and FMLN rebels (1979 to 1991) were produced by the Department of State in response to inquiries by the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador and the U.S. Congress in 1993 - 1994. Documents concerning the murder of four American Churchwomen (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan) by five Salvadoran National Guardsmen on December 2, 1980 are also included.
"Ghost" Detainees: This collection consists of documents concerning individuals apprehended after September 11, 2001 and held by the U.S. at military bases or detention facilities outside the U.S. and the rendition of detainees and other individuals to foreign powers.
Henry Kissinger Telephone Transcripts: Transcribed telephone conversations during Henry Kissinger's tenure as Secretary of State from 1973-1976.
Hillary Clinton Emails, August 31, 2015 release: Tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton's personal server during her tenure as Secretary of State.
Hillary Clinton Emails, October 21, 2016 release: Tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton's personal server during her tenure as Secretary of State.
Iran: Records from the State Department and other agencies concerning Iran broadly.
Iraq: Records from the State Department and other agencies concerning Iraq broadly.
Israel: Records from CIA and State Department concerning Israel broadly.
Japan: Records from the State Department and other agencies concerning Japan broadly.
Keystone Pipeline: Documents created or sent to the State Department on the Keystone XL Pipeline, including an environmental assessment.
Genocide in Rwanda
Mexican Presidential Election, 2006: This collection consists of background information and analysis of the 2006 Mexican Presidential Election. Included in this collection is material relating to Andres Manual Lopez Obrador’s two month-long legal challenge of the election results which ended September 5, 2006 when the Mexican Federal Election Tribunal declared Felipe Calderón President-elect.
Mexico: Records from the State Department and other agencies concerning Mexico broadly.
Misc. State Department FOIA: Unlabeled and unsorted documents from the State Department's FOIA website.
Raoul Wallenberg: Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who was posted to Hungary during World War II, used his good offices to rescue Jews from deportation by the Nazis. Mr. Wallenberg disappeared shortly before the end of WWII and his whereabouts are still unconfirmed today. This collection of 1200 documents was put together in response to several Freedom of Information Act requests filed by Congressman Carl Levin. The documents range in date from 1944 to 1993 and deal with diplomatic efforts to establish Mr. Wallenberg's fate.
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Venezuela, 1992-2004: Records on Venezeula concerning the following topics:
  • Bolivaran Army of Liberation (FBL)
  • Death of Danilo Anderson
  • Expanded Powers and Opposition
  • February 4, 1992 Venezuelan Coup Attempt
  • November 27, 1998 Venezuelan Coup Attempt
  • The 1998 Venezuelan Election and Bolivarianism
  • The August 15, 2004 Recall Referendum

    • Microfiche Collection

    Records previously only available at the State Department Reading Room. Records are arranged by the date their respective FOIA case was opened. Spelling of titles is left as-is; titles may not match contents of records.
    F-1979-00012 Erroll Flynn & Hermann Erben
    F-1979-00184 Guatemala 1964-1978
    F-1979-00204 Governmental Monitoring of Jewish Defense League 1968-79, part 1
    F-1979-00557 Governmental Monitoring of Jewish Defense League 1968-79, part 2 [Conflicting title!]
    F-1979-01277 Taiwan from 1949-1965: Political, Military & Economic Development Refers to General Sun Li-Jen, Chiang Ching-Kuo, General Chen Cheng, K. Y. Yin & Others
    F-1979-01421 George Kennan papers 1952-53 [Conflicting title!]
    F-1979-01697 Documents on Cambodia (Political Situation on Civil Disorder)
    F-1979-02420 SALT Talks, ABM Program 68-72
    F-1979-02932 David K. E. Bruce Diaries, Vols 1-27
    F-1979-03826 Records RE: Relations between U.S. and Saudi Arabia 1952-68 and from 1969-present
    F-1980-00501 Reports from AmEmbassy Saigon Re National, Provincial, and Local Elections in South Vietnam for the Period 1965-1975.
    F-1980-00729 Afghanistan- Annual Policy Assessments 1971-1979
    F-1980-01382 American Policy and Diplomacy in the Korean Conflict
    F-1980-01396 Policy Planning Staff File: China 1950-1953
    F-1980-02094 Raoul Wallenberg
    F-1980-02189 U.S. - Libya Oil
    F-1980-02355 Assassination of Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Afghanistan 1979
    F-1980-02439 U.S. and U.K. Policy toward Albania 1950-1954
    F-1980-02844 People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana
    F-1980-03085 Operation Paperclip
    F-1980-03121 FCN Treaty - U.S. and Japan (FAIM Documents)
    F-1980-03244 Travel Authorizations Sec. Muskie Press Statements 1979-80
    F-1980-03321 Finnish-Soviet Relations 1950-59
    F-1980-03620 Black Hebrews in Israel 1975-1980
    F-1980-03682 (Assistant Secretary for HA) Pat Derian Chronological Work File July-December, 1977
    F-1981-00432 U.S.-Japanese Peace Treaty 1949-51
    F-1981-00498 Pak Song-Ton case
    F-1981-00831 1979 Moon treaty
    F-1981-00955 Docs on US-Libya Oil Relations (1970-1972) Released in Full or in Part in Dornan Case
    F-1981-01061 Puerto Rican Terrorist Groups FALN, Macheteros, etc.
    F-1981-01426 Korea and Taiwan: Weapons 75-81
    F-1981-01955 Jamaican Elections 76-80
    F-1981-02415 U.S. Policies toward Cuba 1959-1960
    F-1981-02460 Labor Problems, Ouagadougou
    F-1981-02496 U.S. Senate Report on Human Rights in Togo, 1980-81
    F-1981-02540 U.S. and Impending Energy Crisis, 1973
    F-1981-02639 Allegations against Muammer Khadafy, Head of State of Libya 1969
    F-1981-02641 Overthrow of Jean Bedel Bohassa of Central African Empire, Allegations of Children Massacred in Central Africa
    F-1981-02840 All docs on Israel's attack on USS Liberty
    F-1981-02924 1954 Coup in Guatemala
    F-1981-02775 Ghana - Volta River Project
    F-1981-03089 Docs on Libya 1939-1971 US aid education Berbers maps (U.S. aid to Libya and data on Benghazi 1939-70s)
    F-1981-03316 Docs on CCC stocks of surplus dairy product and Ampistake in disposition of these products
    F-1981-03409 Docs on the adjudication of requests for asylum in the U.S. by citizens of Poland w/in past 5 years (Polish national and refugee act of 1980, 1977-81)
    F-1981-03553 Persecution/Imprisonment/Execution/Harassment of Civilians in El Salvador by Government Forces Pursuant to the Coup of 10/15/79
    F-1981-03778 Docs on U.S. and French involvement in the Mideast (Lebanon 1958, Arab-Israeli Conflict 1967, French sale of jets to Lebanon)
    F-1981-03979 Docs on missing persons or persons who have "disappeared" in Argentina between Jan. 1976 and Dec. 1979
    F-1981-04044 Material RE: Brazilian, South African and Venezuelan Steel Industry 1975-1981
    F-1981-04211 Consular Convention Japan 1961-1963
    F-1981-04691 Docs on Economic and Military aid extended by Saudi Arabia Jan. 19, 1977- Dec. 31, 1981 [Illegible]
    F-1982-00014 Iranian Hostage Negotiations and Release Agreement with Iran
    F-1982-00032 Human rights policy during the Carter administration
    F-1982-00046 Upkeep and maintenance of Spandau Prison 1946-53
    F-1982-00163 Cypriot Coup & Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
    F-1982-00501 Info on studies, surveys, policies RE: Arms sales to Saudi Arabia from 1968 to the present
    F-1982-00576 Stengers, Jean, Belgium 1950-51 (Return of Leopold III)
    F-1982-01109 Info that relates to Soviet supply of and connections with Laos and Vietnamese chemical warfare
    F-1982-01922 George McGhee papers and American policy toward Palestinian Arab refugees
    F-1982-03280 Drug Control in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia - Part I
    F-1982-03233 Docs on Latvian exile organizations and personalities
    F-1983-03306 Armenian Terrorism- A Profile August 1982
    F-1985-00014 List of political subdivision[sic] in US that are restricted to Foreign Nationals
    F-1985-02391 Visit of CIA director William Casey to the Philippines, 1985
    F-1985-03548 Attempted coup in Iraq, 1973
    F-1985-03633 The National Command Authority, 1971-1985
    F-1987-00568 Jordan: Unexco and Petra Bank: Suit by First Chicago, 1986
    F-1988-04204 DOS investigation Litton industries Inc. arrangement with James Gritz
    F-1989-01946 Indian nuclear weapons development
    F-1989-02976 U.S. Economic Warfare 1950-1954
    F-1989-04151 State Dept. report on Taiwan's environment
    F-1989-04267 Israel: Shahal, Moeshe
    F-1994-01076 BCCI 1991-1993
    F-1995-01275 Bolivia: Operation Ghostzone 1992