Bosnia became a metaphor for the challenges of the 21st Ages
President Bill Clinton praises release of Bosnian war documents
The American public wasn’t clamoring for military intervention in Bosnia nearly two decades ago, but former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that foreign policy decisions cannot be made by polls. “Oftentimes when a proposed course of action is unpopular, it’s not exactly like the voters are telling you not to do it. It’s basically like a giant, blinking yellow light,” Clinton said at his presidential center in Little Rock during a symposium on the Bosnian conflict. Clinton rallied U.S. allies to support airstrikes to end ethnic killings in the region in the 1990s. But even that wasn’t an easy sell, according to some of the more than 300 declassified documents that the CIA recently released
Collection Highlights:
Presidential Review Directive 1-U.S. Policy Regarding the Situation in the Former Yugoslavia
Principals Committee Meeting on Bosnia, February 5, 1993
Minutes of PC Meeting on Bosnia, April 23, 1994
Memo to President Clinton, September 14, 1994 re Principals Committee Review of Bosnia Policy
Memo to President Clinton, November 27, 1994 re Bosnia Policy after Fall of Bihac
Memo to President Clinton, December 13, 1994 re Principals Review of Bosnia Policy
Memo to President Clinton, January 13, 1995 re Update on Bosnia and Croatia
Memo to President Clinton, March 9, 1995 re U.S. Participation in NATO
Memo to President Clinton, May 2, 1995 re Principals Review of Bosnia
Memo to President Clinton, May 29, 1995 re Policy for Bosnia
Memo to President Clinton, June 7, 1995 re Principals Review of Bosnia Policy
Memo to President Clinton, July 15, 1995 re Principals July 14 Conclusions on Bosnia
Memo to President Clinton, July 19, 1995 re Bosnia Next Steps
Memo to President Clinton, August 25, 1995 re Bosnian End-Game Strategy
Memo to President Clinton, September 11, 1995 re Drop-by at the Principals Meeting on Bosnia
Memo to President Clinton, September 23, 1995 re Your Participation in Principals Committee Meeting on Bosnia
Memo to President Clinton, November 22, 1995 re Your Participation in Principals Committee Meeting on Bosnia
Bosnia, Intelligence, and the Clinton Presidency
Bosnia, Intelligence, and the Clinton Presidency: The Role of Intelligence and Political Leadership in Ending the Bosnian War. This collection consists of more than 300 declassified documents related to the Director of Central Intelligence Interagency Balkan Task Force (BTF) and the role of intelligence in supporting policymaking during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. The compilation contains Statements of Conclusions from National Security Council meetings where senior officials made decisions on the Bosnian conflict, BTF memoranda pertaining to those meetings, key intelligence assessments, and selected materials from the State Department, White House, Department of Defense, and William J. Clinton Presidential Library. The records center around 1995, the year in which the Dayton Accords ending the Bosnian War were signed.
More: http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/bosnia-intelligence-and-clinton-presidency
