1.   Stalin had long been unmentionable and Volkogonov was said to be using closed secret archives.

2.   It was CISEN, which remains part of the Interior Ministry, that held the secret archives.

3.   Secret archives were opened.

4.   There is something terribly wrong in Washington when American scholars have greater access to secret Soviet archives than they do to classified American files.

5.   They ought to be equally willing to turn over material in their own secret archives bearing on this historic case.

6.   Cornwell was given access to the secret Vatican archives because he initially set out to write a book vindicating the pope.

7.   Mexico opens secret archives.

8.   The dispute follows the arrests last week of a retired senior Bulgarian army officer and the chief of a Defense Ministry secret archive.

9.   Volkogonov is known for his biographies on Stalin and his predecessor, Vladimir Lenin, based on previously secret Soviet archives.

10.   Russia in turn seized the documents and held them in the secret archives of its intelligence services.