Eduardo González is Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice's (ICTJ) Truth and Memory Program, which provides advice to countries on truth commissions, declassification of archives, memorialization activities, museums, and other instruments.
The real historical truth — without quotation marks — was made public with the partial declassification of Soviet archives after 1991.
He also doubted the authenticity of the pact's secret protocols.Even the hoped-for declassification of Soviet archives is proving inconclusive.
What remains to be seen is whether the ITF's problems are the results of Msgr. Balestrero's growing pains or caused by deeper Vatican uneasiness related to declassification of their Archives.
Declassification of the migrated archive has taken two and a half years, with the final tranche of documents due to arrive at Kew next month.
Anthony Badger, the Cambridge history professor who has been overseeing the declassification of the migrated archive, has written that he believes "it is difficult to overestimate the legacy of suspicion among historians, lawyers and journalists" that resulted from the concealment of those 8,800 files.
These changes came with the opening of Soviet archives and the declassification of the Venona Project, an American spy operation that decoded Russian intelligence traffic during World War II.
The book is a kind of archive.
He was also appointed head of a parliamentary commission for overseeing the declassification of millions of documents in the Communist Party and state archives.
The full extent of the destruction of Britain's colonial government records during the retreat from empire was disclosed on Thursday with the declassification of a small part of the Foreign Office's vast secret archive.
Even fundamental questions — who hatched the plot, who ultimately carried it out, who supported it inside Iran and how did it succeed — are in dispute," wrote Malcolm Byrne, the archive's director of research, who pursued the declassification of the coup history through an 11-year Freedom of Information Act request.
