World  Archives

This listing is of national and other archives round the world that have documents related to the Cold War period, it is not complete, there are many others. The ones listed here are some of those that have easy access via the Internet and that I find particularly useful.
               

  Canada         

• Archives Canada
• CBC Archive

  Czech Republic

• Intelligence Service of the Czech Republic                      
  

  France

• French National Archive
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives

  Holland

• International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
• National Archives of the Netherlands
  
• Roosevelt Institute for American Studies, Middelburg
  

  Hungary

• Cold War History Research Center

  Germany                    

• East German State Security (Stasi) Archive
• German Federal Archive

  Portugal                   

• Centre for International Studies - University of Lisbon 

  Romania        

• Records from the National Military Archives of Romania           
  

  Russia

•  Russian Archives

  UK                                   

• The National Archives
• British Academy
• BBC Archive
• The British Newspaper Archive
• Gloucestershire Archives
• London School of Economics and Political Science: British-Soviet  - Archive Project
• Parliamentary Archives
• Royal Air Force Museum Archives  
• Royal Voluntary Service Archive & Heritage Collection
• Sheffield City Archives & Local Studies Library
• South West Heritage Trust                             
• Subterranea Britannica Collection
• University of Reading
  

  USA

• Atomic Heritage Foundation
• The Avalon Project - Yale Law School
  
• The Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center
• CIA - Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
• Eisenhower Presidential Library
• Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
• Florida Atlantic University Libraries
  
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
• Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum  
• The Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
• The Hoover Institution
• The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
• Library of Congress's Documents from the Soviet Archives
• Library of Congress Russian Newspapers  
• National Archives
• National Security Archive, George Washington University
• Newton Gresham Library, Sam Houston State University
• Oregon State University -  Letters to the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
• Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
  
• Truman Cold War Documents
• Wilson Center Digital Archive

  International

• United Nations Archive
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Warsaw Pact (1955)
  
• NATO Archive
• Wintex-Cimex-83 Exercise (NATO)
  
• The Internet Archive

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