daveschroeder writes "George Washington University has today released a three volume history of its activities during the Cold War. Written by agency historian Thomas R. Johnson, the 1000-page report, "Cryptology during the Cold War, 1945-1989", details some of the agency's successes and failures, its conflict with other intelligence agencies, and the questionable legal ground on which early American cryptologists worked. The report remained classified for years, until Johnson mentioned it to Matthew Aid, an intelligence historian, at an intelligence conference. Aid and the George Washington University's National Security Archive joined forces to obtain the report — intended for internal agency consumption only — from the NSA. Two years later, an abstract and the three current volumes of the report are now available via the George Washington University National Security Archive in PDF format. Aid, a National Security Archive visiting fellow Matthew and author of the forthcoming history "The Secret Sentry: The Top Secret History of the National Security Agency", says Johnson's study shows "refreshing openness and honesty, acknowledging both the NSA's impressive successes and abject failures during the Cold War." A fourth volume remains classified."
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