Editing National Security Archive (section)

{{distinguish|National Security Agency}}
{{Short description|Advocacy and journalism nonprofit}}
{{COI|date=June 2024}}
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| name                     = The National Security Archive
| image                    = National Security Archive.png
| abbreviation             = The Archive
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| formation                = 1985, United States
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| type                     = [[501(c)#501(c)(3)|501(c)(3)]] [[non-profit organization]]
| status                   = Foundation
| purpose                  = Freedom of information, journalism, transparency, open government, research
| headquarters             = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
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| parent_organization      = [[George Washington University]]
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| website                  = [https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/ National Security Archive]
[https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/ National Security Archive 2 (Legacy)]
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The '''National Security Archive''' is a [[501(c)(3)]] [[non-governmental]], [[Nonprofit organization|non-profit]] research and archival institution located on the campus of the [[George Washington University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] Founded in 1985 to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive is an [[investigative journalism]] center, open government advocate, [[International relations|international affairs]] research institute, and the largest repository of [[Declassification|declassified]] U.S. documents outside the federal government.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/the_archive.html |title=About the National Security Archive |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=The National Security Archive}}</ref> In the four decades of its history, the National Security Archive has spurred the declassification of more than 15 million pages of government documents by being the leading non-profit user of the [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)]], filing a total of more than 70,000 FOIA and declassification requests.