February 1, 2008

Disputed Iraqi Records Find a Home at the Hoover Institution

By JOHN GRAVOIS

Two shipping containers' worth of records created by Iraq's Baath Party that have been stored on an American naval base for the past 21 months are about to find a new home at the Hoover Institution, the conservative think tank and library affiliated with Stanford University.

Hoover signed a deal last week with the Iraq Memory Foundation — a private, nonprofit group that has had custody of the documents since just after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003 — for the

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