After official review, the relevant State Department files, many of them previously classified, had recently been opened to researchers at the U.S. National Archives. But when I started digging through these records, I found that a considerable number of classified documents remained unavailable. When I complained about this to another historian, he responded: “Those are exactly the documents you should see. Of course, gaining access to relevant classified records of the former Soviet bloc was also difficult. And what did I learn from these and other plunges into previously classified government records?

Source: Ethiopian News September 05, 2022 06:47 UTC