Iraqi Secret Police Files Archives
University of Colorado at Boulder
Feb. 4, 1998
The Captured Iraqi Secret Police Files is a project of the Human Rights Initiative of the University of Colorado at Boulder Archives. The initiative’s purpose is to secure, preserve and make broadly available archival human rights evidence concerning contemporary international human rights affairs. The HRI has acquired the archives of many of the world’s preeminent human rights organizations, including Amnesty International USA, Physicians for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch and others.
In addition to the 18 tons of original captured Iraqi Secret Police Files, HRI has secured a copy of a digital database of the 5.5 million-page collection produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The computer database is word searchable in English. Copies of the database also are held by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Human Rights Watch and the two Kurdish rebel factions that seized the materials