Declassification at the Presidential Libraries
Classified Consolidation
In 2018, the National Archives decided to consolidate all of the classified holdings from within the Presidential Library system to the National Capital Region. NARA’s National Declassification Center will facilitate the declassification review of these records and their return to the Presidential Libraries as they are declassified. Contact the Presidential Library that maintains the records you are interested in to submit a declassification request.
Remote Archives Capture Project
In 1995, NARA worked with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the intelligence and classifying community to develop a cooperative interagency plan called the Remote Archive Capture (RAC) project. The purpose was to digitize all classified Presidential records so that the scanned images could be brought to Washington, D.C for a declassification review by the equity-holding agencies. The RAC project declassified papers from the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan Presidential Libraries. Equity-holding agencies reviewed approximately 4 million pages as part of the RAC project. This program was replaced with the classified consolidation program in 2018. Contact the Presidential Library that maintains the records you are interested in to access the records declassified during the RAC project.
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Accessing the Presidential and Vice Presidential Collections