National Security Archive

The National Security Archive

Abbreviation	The Archive
Formation	1985, United States
Type	501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Legal status	Foundation
Purpose	Freedom of information, journalism, transparency, open government, research
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States
Parent organization	The George Washington University
Website	The National Security Archive

The National Security Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental, non-profit research and archival institution located on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy. The National Security Archive is an investigative journalism center, open government advocate, international affairs research institute, and the largest repository of declassified U.S. documents outside the federal government.^[1] The National Security Archive has spurred the declassification of more than 15 million pages of government documents by being the leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), filing a total of more than 70,000 FOIA and declassification requests in its over 35+ years of history.