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it has become renowned internationally for its openness. This universal acclaim well serves America's national interest," but added, "This barometer of openness, however, has created substantial delays in the declassification and publication processes over which HO has limited control." To that end, N. Richard Kinsman cited "serious, cumulative, and long-term deleterious effects on the
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In a 2013 report on the status of FRUS, Richard Immerman, Chairman of the Office of the Historian's Historical Advisory Council, stated that "Because the Foreign Relations series serves as the primary venue for publishing documentation on the role of intelligence activities in U.S. foreign relations,
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editions of a growing number of volumes from the series. Far lighter and more portable than printed editions of FRUS, the e-book edition offers the full content of each volume and makes use of the full-text search and other reading features of most e-book devices and applications, including
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as a result of specific citations by name to CIA in the FRUS" and that "Explicit FRUS citations of CIA activities in specific countries constitute de facto admission of a CIA presence abroad, a direct contradiction of current policy to deny an official CIA presence abroad."
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The series has been frequently criticised for omitting mentions of controversial US foreign policies, due to limitations on the declassification of historical documents. In the late 1980s and early 90s, growing concerns over the accuracy of the series's coverage of the
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era led to a 1991 Congressional statute to provide it with a legal mandate for timeliness and comprehensiveness. Incidents alleged to be omitted or censored include the U.S. government's covert involvement in the
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Volumes in the series since 1952 are organized chronologically according to presidential administrations, and geographically and topically within each subseries: 25 volumes cover the
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It has had numerous subseries, appendices and microfiche supplements over the years as warranted. Indexes were issued covering the years 1861–99 and 1900–18.
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bookmarking and note-taking. Unlike the web-based edition of FRUS, the e-book edition, once downloaded, can be accessed even without internet connectivity.
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in rebuttal cited the unlikelihood of documents 30+ years old after being properly vetted prior to publication posing any risk.
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Gibbs, David N. (1995). "Let Us Forget Unpleasant Memories: The US State Department's Analysis of the Congo Crisis".
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Prior to 1970, the series was published under various names. From 1870 to 1947, the uniform title
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Official record of U.S. foreign policy, compiled and published by the U.S. government
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Pre-1955 FRUS available and searchable on-line via the University of Wisconsin
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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
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Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers
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was used. From 1947 to 1969, the name was changed to
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Index

Foreign Relations Series
Office of the Historian
United States Department of State
historical record
U.S. foreign policy
diplomatic activities
declassified records
foreign affairs agencies
presidential libraries
State
Defense
National Security Council
Central Intelligence Agency
Agency for International Development
U.S. foreign policy
Kennedy administration
Johnson administration
Nixon
Ford administration
Carter administration
Reagan administration
e-book
Roman numeral
Agency
Warren F. Kimball
Cold War
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
Patrice Lumumba
Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66

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