Documents from Osama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan are to go online later this week, a White House counter-terrorism official has said.
They were gathered by US Navy Seals during the raid on Bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad on 2 May 2011.
The papers are said to include communication between the al-Qaeda leader and his associates, and his hand-written diary.
The move comes on the week that marks a year since Bin Laden's death.
The documents reveal that Bin Laden had considered changing al-Qaeda's name because so many of its senior operatives had been killed.
In a speech to a Washington DC think tank, White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan said the documents would be put online by the US Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
He told the Woodrow Wilson International Center: "With its most skilled and experienced commanders being lost so quickly, al-Qaeda has had trouble replacing them," AFP news agency reports.
"For example, Bin Laden worried about, and I quote, 'the rise of lower leaders who are not as experienced and this would lead to the repeat of mistakes,'" he reportedly added.
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