Argentine president General Juan Domingo Peron inaugurating a leadership school in 1954, a year before the military forced him into exile. Juan Domingo Peron Collection
Government records from eleven collections at Hoover Library & Archives have recently been declassified. The collections were created by diplomatic, military, and other government officials.
Since 2001, a government team has been visiting the Hoover Archives to review security-classified records, which are then evaluated by the relevant federal agencies. Some records are released in full, others in part, and some remain classified. As government agencies continue their review, more declassified documents will become available in the future.
The relevant collections are listed below. The declassified materials are generally available at the end of the Online Archive of California finding aids.
Jay Lovestone addressing an American meeting in support of leftist forces in the Spanish Civil War, ca. 1937. Bertram Wolfe is first from right. Jay Lovestone papers, envelope B
