CIA Considers Access to Cold War Secrets

The Central Intelligence Agency said it had begun a declassification review of two vast bodies of documents that could shed new light on the Cold War and may open up many secrets. The reviews involve all records that flowed in and out of the office of the director of central intelligence for the last 50 years, as well as all CIA studies on the former Soviet Union from the spy agency’s inception in 1947. The twin initiatives were being carried out by the CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence, a kind of in-house think tank, at the urging of the director of central intelligence’s historical review panel of outside historians, a spokesman said.