Bruce Montgomery ’78

Negotiating precedent-setting agreements with war-torn countries and Amnesty International to archive sensitive files enabled Bruce Montgomery ’78 to create the largest human rights archives in existence. As faculty director of archives at the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, he began the “Human Rights Initiative” to preserve the legacy of the international human rights movement. In 1998 he acquired 18 tons of Iraqi secret police files, which he later repatriated to Iraqi Kurdistan to be used in the trials of Saddam Hussein. The vast archive attracted scholars and researchers from around the world until the university terminated the project. Montgomery continues to write articles and books on the “Richard B. Cheney and the Rise of the Imperial Vice Presidency.”