Malcolm Byrne

Malcolm Byrne is Deputy Director and Director of Research at the non-governmental National Security Archive based at The George Washington University.

He joined the Archive in 1986. Since 1990 he has supervised the research process of identifying and obtaining documentation for the Archive's collections, largely through the US Freedom of Information Act. He currently directs the U.S.-Iran Relations Project, which promotes multinational and multi-archival approaches to the study of recent historical events. Previously, he co-directed the Iran-Contra documentation project, and coordinated the Archive's project on U.S.-Soviet relations during the Cold War.

His latest book is "Iran-Contra: Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power" (University Press of Kansas, 2014). Earlier books include "The Chronology" (Warner Books, 1987), "The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History" (The New Press, 1993), and the award-winning "Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran" (Syracuse, 2004, with Mark Gasiorowski).

He has also published documentary volumes on US and Soviet policies toward crises in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.