The Department of Defense has published The Open House Collection: Documents from the Military Archives of Former Warsaw Pact Countries in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense; and Joint History Office, Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2000. 113 pages.
The compilation contains papers presented at the Conference on Cold War Archives in the Decade of Openness sponsored by the Department of Defense and the Library of Congress. The conference, held at the Library of Congress on June 28-29, 2000, highlighted the microfilm document collections of the Defense Department's Open House Program, deposited in the European Division of the Library and open to the public for research. These military archives come from Hungary, Poland and Romania.
The Library's European Division has a limited supply of copies. To request one, send your mailing address in an e-mail message to grha@loc.gov.
Additional information on these military archives can be found on the Library's Web site at www.loc.gov/rr/european/specproj.html.
