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May 11, 2017
Chiquita Papers Document over $800,000 in Payments to Colombian GuerrillasInternal Security Reports Detail Negotiations with Subversive Groups
May 10, 2017
Hungary 1956: Reviving the Debate over US (In)action during the RevolutionEisenhower’s Caution Broadly Justified, Declassified Defense Department Study Finds
May 2, 2017
Chiquita Papers: Uncertainty Fueled Staff Concerns about Payments of Guerrillas and ParamilitariesColombia Payments a “Leap of Faith”
April 27, 2017
Trump Continues U.S. Declassified Diplomacy with ArgentinaOperation Condor Considered Expanding into United States and Europe, New Records Show
April 25, 2017
Agustin Edwards: A Declassified ObituaryDeclassified CIA, White House Documents Reveal Collaboration between Chilean Media Mogul and Highest Level of Nixon Administration
April 24, 2017
The New Chiquita Papers: Secret Testimony and Internal Records Identify Banana Executives who Bankrolled Terror in ColombiaSEC Deposition Transcripts Detail Years of Payments to Colombian Paramilitary, Guerrilla Groups
April 14, 2017
Trump Hides White House Visitor LogsFalse Claims of National Security/Privacy Risk; 6 Million Obama Visitors Prove Otherwise
April 12, 2017
Stopping Korea from Going Nuclear, Part IICanada, France, U.S. Cooperated to Halt Seoul's Ambitions
April 10, 2017
Trump Visitor Logs Subject to FOIA LawsuitArchive, Knight Institute, CREW File Doyle v. DHS in New York Federal Court
March 22, 2017
Stopping Korea from Going Nuclear, Part IFord Administration Sought to “Inhibit … Development of a Nuclear Explosive Capability;” South Korean Officials Initially Resisted
March 13, 2017
In Memoriam Anatoly Chernyaev 1921-2017Champion of glasnost, hero of Cold War's peaceful end
March 11, 2017
Three out of Five Federal Agencies Flout New FOIA LawOnly 38 of 99 Agencies Have Updated Their FOIA Rules
February 28, 2017
Eisenhower Concluded Neither U.S. Military Operations Nor Popular Uprisings Were Feasible in Soviet-Controlled Eastern Europe, Despite “Rollback” RhetoricCIA’s Dulles Agreed: “You Don’t Revolt in the Face of Tanks, Artillery and Tear Gas; Revolutions Are Now at the Top”
February 15, 2017
Top Air Force Official Told JCS in 1971: “We Could Lose Two Hundred Million People [in a Nuclear War] and Still Have More Than We Had at the Time of the Civil War”Declassified Diary Excerpt and Other Records of Ex-JCS Chairman Moorer Detail Highest-Level Military Deliberations, Including with White House
February 7, 2017
CIA Covert Aid to Italy Averaged $5 Million Annually from Late 1940s to Early 1960s, Study FindsPreviously Unpublished Draft Defense Department History Explores U.S. Policy toward Italy, Spotlights Role of Flamboyant Envoy, Clare Boothe Luce
January 23, 2017
The Last Superpower SummitsNew book analyzes detailed transcripts of Gorbachev, Reagan and Bush meetings 1985-1991
January 17, 2017
Operation Condor: Condemned to Life!Rome Court Concludes 2-Year Trial on Multinational Repression
December 25, 2016
The End of the Soviet Union 1991U.S. Policy to Gorbachev: “We Support the Center and You Personally”
December 23, 2016
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New book combines Soviet and U.S. transcripts of highest-level meetings that ended the Cold WarGorbachev offered arms race in reverse; Reagan recommended quiet on human rights; Bush sounded very encouraging in 1987 but the 1989 pause interrupted progress
December 22, 2016
Reagan's Nuclear War Briefing DeclassifiedKremlin Leaders Among Prime Targets in War Plan
December 20, 2016
President’s Daily Brief Spotlighted Soviet Missile and Space Programs in 1960s and 1970sDaily Briefings Underscored Threats to National Security, Propaganda Value of Rival Programs
December 14, 2016
OPERATION CONDOR: Officials of Amnesty International Targeted for 'Liquidation'Repression in Argentina: Obama Administration Declassifies Top Secret Intelligence Files
December 12, 2016
Nunn-Lugar 25th Anniversary Shows Cooperative Security Worked3429 Soviet Nuclear Warheads Outside Russia at End of USSR in 1991, None Blew Up
December 8, 2016
The Vela Incident: South Atlantic Mystery Flash in September 1979 Raised Questions about Nuclear TestCIA Panel Found Evidence “Consistent” with a “Nuclear Explosion in Outer Space” But White House Board Later Disagreed
December 6, 2016
Inside Able Archer 83, the Nuclear War Game that Put U.S.-Soviet Relations on "Hair Trigger"New Book Publishes Former Top Secrets from CIA, NATO, and Soviet Politburo
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