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Primary Sources - Afghanistan

Commercial Sources

Archives Unbound (Gale)
Digital collections for historical documents in the areas of: PsyOps, Afghanistan, China, Japan, Vietnam, Civil War, Persian Gulf War, Latin America, Radicalism, Czechoslovakia, Turkey and more.
Cold War Eastern Europe
Files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and the socialist states of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Digital National Security Archive (1945-current)
Declassified, primary government documents. US foreign and military policy, post World War II.
ProQuest History Vault (ProQuest)
Primary source materials related to US planning and policies with an emphasis on WWII, Vietnam and intelligence
Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War: Intelligence, Strategy and Diplomacy
British government secret intelligence and foreign policy files from 1873 to 1953, with the majority of files dating from the 1930s and 1940s.
US Declassified Documents Online (Gale)
Government documents, domestic & foreign policies, correspondence & memoranda, minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements & intelligence reports.

al-Qa’ida

Bin Laden's Bookshelf
Documents from raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) Harmony Program
The program was created to release and analyze captured al-Qa’ida, its associated movement, and other security threats through primary source documents.

Soviet Invasion

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
he documents begin before the war, spanning from 1968 to 2004 [Wilson Center Digital Archive]