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PAIS Team Conduct Research at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum
Following the ISA Annual Convention 2016, held on 16-19 March in Atlanta, Georgia, Professor Richard Aldrich, PAIS graduate Dr Zakia Shiraz and PhD candidate Daniela Richterova conducted research at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum.
Set up in 1986, the Carter Library holds millions of documents from the era of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency - including selected documents on the Camp David Accords, the President’s speeches and directives, human rights documents, secret briefs by the country’s intelligence community, oral histories as well as rarities such as the Iran Hostage Diary - a prison journal of a captive held at the American embassy in Tehran. The museum is also a wonderful homage to American domestic politics in the late 1970s.
During the course of their three-day research stay, the Warwick team focused on documents pertinent to the history of the CIA, events related to and triggered by the Columbian civil war, and materials on the alleged Soviet sponsorship of Cold War terrorism. Research at the Ford, Carter and Reagan libraries is being accelerated by computer databases of recently declassified materials linked to printers, which makes even a short research visit very productive. Gems uncovered by the PAIS team included a signals intelligence operation by the US National Security Agency against the British territory of Grenada.
Their research visit was made possible due to support for travel and accommodation from the Politics and International Studies Department.