From: mya@tsoft.sf-bay.org ()
Subject: Russian documents available
Organization: The TeleSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 7958
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:15:25 GMT

I seem to remember someone asking about something similar to these documents
before. If not, well here they are anyway!
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In article <1992Jun29.085203.7345@wam.umd.edu>, I write:                       
                                                                               
A new Library of Congress exhibition of 300 documents from Russian             
archives makes house calls.  Computer users on the Internet network            
... can dial up and read once secret memos on the Cuban missile                
crisis, Chernobyl and more--in English or Russian....                          
                                                                               
Thanks for the response.  Due to the large number of people who have           
replied to me asking me for the information, I have decided to post            
what I have found out.  I am especially grateful to Bill Innanen and           
Thomas Greene for telling me (us) how to access the LC information.            
What follows is from a posting to the RUSSIA listserver and                    
internet.history.                                                              
                                                                               
The exhibit "Revelations from the Russian Archives", opened today,             
June 17, 1992, at the Library of Congress.  Those who wish to                  
retrieve selected portions of the documents contained in the exhibit           
may follow the following instructions:                                         
 
:                                                                              
        FTP to seq1.loc.gov                                                    
        USERID: anonymous                                                      
        PASSWORD: anything or your address                                     
        CD pub                                                                 
        CD soviet.archive                                                      
        get README                                                             
                                                                               
The README file gives information about the documents available.               
Continue to transfer files of interest using "get [filename]." Files           
are in ASCII format and are not very long (no need for compressed              
files).  For those files with the extension .GIF (images of original           
Russian text) you need some type of GIF viewer.  This software is              
available on bulletin boards.                                                  
                                                                               
Special Projects Office, Library of Congress                                   
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Yigal Arens                                                                    
USC/ISI                                                                        
                                                                               
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