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The key to the successful operation of any army is the well-organized work of its units responsible for counterintelligence. In the Wehrmacht, this function was assigned to abwehr-3 – one of the departments of abwehr (German military intelligence and counterintelligence). The source base is based on captured German documents, a set of which was found in the funds of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time documents are introduced into scientific circulation that were previously inaccessible to the scientific community and the public. The article analyzes the methods used by the Abwehr-3 in the period from June 1941 to February 1942 in the occupied Soviet territories. The activities of the German counterintelligence to suppress enemy propaganda, the Abwehr method of preserving state secrets, and instructions on the behavior of Wehrmacht soldiers in captivity that were in force during the Second World War are considered. Such an Abwehr-3 method as conspiracy is considered in detail, the main requirements for the storage of secret documents in the Wehrmacht are given. It is shown that officers of the Abwehr-3 performed the role of censors in Nazi Germany. The main scientific result: the authors showed that the work of the German counterintelligence was strictly regulated and placed on a fairly high methodological level. This conclusion emphasizes the fact that on the fields of the secret war, Soviet intelligence was confronted by a serious enemy, which was possible to defeat only with high professionalism and devotion to duty.

The objective of this study is to reflect on the practices and uses of secrecy and confidentiality as a mechanism or instrument of government of the monarchy during the Old Regime, paying special attention to documentary instruments and personal actors that allowed the development of a way of resolution, management and communication of business different and in many occasions parallel to the socalled "ordinary route" of the courts and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to describe and analyze the “opening” process of the Military Archives in Argentina. We will consider three courses of action that were unfolded by the Ministry of Defense during the ‘kirchneristas’ governments (2003-2015). First the task performed by the “Equipos de Relevamiento y Análisis Documental” (Documentary Research and Analysis Teams) with the purpose of finding evidence that could be of use for criminal prosecution. Second, the archivist policy developed by the “Programa de Modernización de Archivos” (Archive Modernization Program), and third the treatment and dissemination of the documents known to the public as “Actas Secretas de la Dictadura” (“Secret proceedings of the dictatorship”). We expect to show how each course of action implied not only a dispute over the “property” of the Archives but also an overlapping of different uses, criteria and expectations for the documents at stake. Finally, we intend to indicate how these differentiated approaches to the Archives were influenced -and at the same time- helped building a dominant memory regarding Argentina’s recent past.