Vietnam Project

30+ Years of Freedom of Information Action

About this Project

In the mid-1990s the National Security Archive teamed up with Brown University’s Thomas J. Watson Institute for a conference on "Missed Opportunities in the Vietnam War." Creating the briefing books and furnishing historical expertise for that event, which featured key American and North Vietnamese former officials including Robert McNamara and Nguyen Co Thach, led to the launch of the Vietnam Project. The project compiled two extensive sets of Vietnam-era documents as part of the Digital National Security Archive, many of them published for the first time. We also continue to supply electronic postings (e-books) on occasion, covering topics relating to the war and its era. Most recently, along with the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, we made an effort to bring into the open records of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. We also participated on the historical advisory panel for the Education Center planned by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

Blog Posts

New Tet Documents? Not So Much.

Aug 7, 2018

Vietnamese Struggle With Their Past: History of the Southern Resistance

Oct 31, 2014

The Biography of “Tony Po,” AKA Anthony Poshepny

Oct 15, 2013

Ngo Dinh Diem in the Crosshairs

Oct 2, 2013

Ah, Those 11 Words!

Jul 22, 2011

Featured Posting

The Murrey Marder Papers at the National Security Archive

Washington D.C., July 20, 2017 – During a frank conversation with Washington Post reporter Murrey Marder in early 1967, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey said that “he is...

Jul 20, 2017