Colombia and the United States

de National Security Archive (U.S.)

"National Security Archive's Colombia collection traces more than 60 years of U.S. involvement in Latin America's longest-running internal conflict, from the early days of the Cold War through the deluge of recent political scandals, which have revealed unprecedented levels of corruption in the country's major political institutions. The 2,343 declassified documents from the State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon, the National Security Council, and other agencies represent a unique and valuable cross-section of primary source material on U.S. policy toward, and analysis of, its most important Andean ally during critical phases of the bilateral relationship, including the drug war--when powerful narcotics trafficking organizations threatened to bring down the country's political institutions--and during the dirty war of the 1980s and beyond, when right-wing paramilitary militias in league with drug traffickers and Colombian security forces assassinated thousands of leftist political leaders and terrorized rural populations to wrest control of the lucrative drug trade from Colombia's powerful leftist guerrilla groups."--From Introduction.