Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1986-1992 (Creation)
- 1974-1991 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
13 reels
Scope and content
Terrorism: Special Studies, 1975-1991 is a themed microfilm compilation of texts commissioned by the US government and published by University Publications of America, Inc. Original texts cover the period 1960-1991, and are drawn from a variety of originating bodies, including the US Defense Intelligence Agency, the US armed forces intelligence organisation; US Central Intelligence Agency; US Army War College; the Defense Intelligence College; US Department of State; Columbia University; US Naval Postgraduate School; US Army Command and Staff College; the Federal Aviation Administration; and non-partisan policy centres, including the RAND Corporation. The collection includes US Central Intelligence Agency terrorist yearbooks; US Defense Intelligence College reports on the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), the West German Red Army Faction, and the Irish Republican Army (IRA); US Federal Aviation Administration reports on the effectiveness of the Civil Aviation Security Program; RAND Corporation policy papers relating to hostage survival, terrorism in the 1980s, options for US policy on terrorism, right-wing terrorist organisations, terrorism in the Middle East, the Red Brigade, kidnapping, white supremacist organisations, and the threat of nuclear and biological weapons; US State Department reports on political terrorism; US Army War College policy papers relating to counter-terrorism, psychological aspects of terrorism, the operational level of 'Euroterrorism' in the 1980s, the media and terrorism, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), and Northern Ireland; Defense Intelligence Agency papers, including the report of the Symposium on International Terrorism, Washington, DC, 2-3 Dec 1985.
System of arrangement
Arranged in the following chronological sections: Series 1: 1974-1977 (MF 831); 1977-1979 (MF 832); 1979-1981 (MF 833); 1982-1983 (MF 834); 1983-1985 (MF 835); Series 2: 1979-1985 (MF 836); 1985-1986 (MF 837); 1986 (MF 838); 1986-1987 (MF 839); 1987-1988 (MF 840); Series 3: 1986-1989 (MF 841); 1989 (MF 842); 1990-1991 (MF 843)
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
University Publications of America, Inc., Bethesda, MD, with guides edited by Michael Davis and compiled by Mike Acquaviva.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies may be printed off the microfilm/microfiche for research purposes and are charged at cost.
Enquiries concerning the copyright of the original material should be addressed to University Publications of America Inc.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description. The following published guide is available in the Reading Room: Michael Davis and Mike Acquaviva (eds.), Terrorism: Special Studies, 1975-1991 (University Publications of America, Inc, Bethesda, MD, 1986-1992).
Note
Compiled Jun 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.