This collection of over 3,500 documents provides a record of U.S. policy toward the Philippines during the 20-year rule of Ferdinand Marcos. Most documents are State Department cables, airgrams, internal memos, briefing papers, intelligence reports and correspondence. They provide valuable primary source material on: the imposition and lifting of martial law in 1972 and 1981; presidential, legislative and local elections; the detention, release, exile, and murder of Benigno Aquino, and the rise and fall of Marcos. The detailed two volume guide and index includes subject and name indices, a frame by frame catalog, a chronology, a bibliography and glossaries of names, military terms, and organizations. Guide volumes include maps, chronology, glossaries, bibliography, catalog, names index, subject index. Guide title: The Philippines : U.S. policy during the Marcos years, 1965-1986.