Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History

Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History is an Electronic Briefing Book available from the National Security Archive’s site. The Archive has obtained declassified documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and made them available to everyone free of charge.

The briefing book is made up of two pages. The first is the introduction, or title page. This page can be a bit misleading: the title of the briefing book is at the top, above a large image of Tiananmen Square. The introduction contains background information on the project, but also discusses a different, larger collection of documents, which is...