A City Torn Apart Building of the Berlin Wall by Central Intelligence Agency - HTML preview

acknowledgements

The CIA’s Historical Collections Division and NARA’s National Declassification Center gratefully acknowledges the following individuals, organizations and staffs for their declassification assistance and their courteous contribution of materials for this collection.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Office of the Historian

Presidential Library and Museum

Department of State

Abilene, Kansas

Washington, DC

Harry S. Truman

Historical Office

Presidential Library and Museum

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

Independence, Missouri

[SHAPE], Brussels, Belgium

John F. Kennedy

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Presidential Library and Museum

Pentagon

Boston, Massachusetts

Arlington, Virginia

Lyndon B. Johnson

Army Declassification

Presidential Library and Museum

Records Management & Declassification Agency

Austin, Texas

Fort Belvoir, Virginia

Ike Skelton Library

Joint Forces Staff College

Norfolk, Virginia

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disclaimer

All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed in this

booklet are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect

official positions or views of the Central Intelligence Agency,

National Archives and Records Administration or any other

US government entity, past or present. Nothing in the contents

should be construed as asserting or implying U.S. Government

endorsement of an article’s statements or interpretations.

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The Historical Collections and Information Review and Release Divisions of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Information Management Services reviewed, redacted, and released hundreds of documents related to the Berlin Wall for this event. The accompanying DVD contains over 370+ documents and more than 4,800+ pages of material.

The material is organized into the following categories.

The Berlin Wall document collection features CIA memorandums, summaries and estimates; Departent of the Army documents and summaries; documents from the historical collections of SHAPE and the Department of State; and materials from the presidential libraries of Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

The multimedia collection—photos, audio, and video material from the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

This DVD will work on most computers and the documents are in .PDF format.

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