Shafaq News/ The Director of National Library and Archives, said on  Tuesday, that  the U.S. State Department provided financial support for the Hoover Institution for a project of studying past outlawed Baath party, noting that Iraqi culture demanded the authorities of America to re-archive, and promised to move contrary to international laws and conventions.Said Sa’ad Eskander, to  the "Shafaq  News", "The Foreign Ministry has provided a grant to the Hoover Institution to set up a study of the archives of the Iraqi Baath Party."

The American journalist revealed in a report, yesterday, Monday, for the Iraq Memory Foundation, established by Kana’an Makiya, the contract with the Hoover Institution to preserve the documents of the Iraqi state in the era of the former regime of Saddam Hussein, indicating it is the oldest on the move can not be used by the opponents as his claim.

Bashir said that "the President of the Iraq Memory Foundation Kana’an Makiya does not have to sell this archive to the Hoover Institution, but put it in the selection of the Institute for a joint study between them to this archive."

And "The American forces earlier in the transfer of archive Baath Party from the Green Zone to America, and bear with the U.S. government responsible for maintaining it," he said, adding that "the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and through the delegation that visited the U.S. recently called authorities the U.S. to re-archive, because the move to America clear violation of international laws and conventions. "

This archive was discovered in the basement of the headquarters of the Baath Party in Baghdad during the chaos after the entry of the United States to Iraq, and included volumes individual packed files records and personal investigations and files also include records of uprooted, executed by the Baath Party.

It is said that the records gathered by the Iraqi Memory Foundation, based in Washington, as an American institution founded by Kana’an Makiya, a pregnant U.S. citizen who traveled to Baghdad shortly after the entry of U.S. troops to Iraq and collected  a lot of documents to the extent that he found was the authority of the interim government had given him the right care securities and acquisitions.