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...The 109-page document, titled "The Soviet 'War Scare,' " was dated Feb. 15, 1990, and written for the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a White House unit that examined intelligence issues. The authors of the review scrutinized classified documents and conducted 75 interviews with U.S. and British officials.
Originally stamped "Top Secret" and containing sensitive signals intelligence, the review was declassified this month in response to a request from the National Security Archive, a nongovernmental organization affiliated with George Washington University...
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October 24, 2015
The 1983 War Scare Declassified and For RealAll-Source Intelligence Report finds US-Soviet Nuclear Relations on "Hair Trigger" in 1983
Alert Air Force General acted "out of instinct, not informed guidance" to Stop Escalation of the Crisis
October 14, 2015
The U.S. and the Pakistani Bomb, 1984-1985: General Zia, President Reagan, and Seymour HershDeclassified State Department Documents Disclose Internal U.S. Government Debate over Whether to Enforce "Red Lines" for Nuclear Activities in Pakistan, and Worries about an Indian "Pre-Emptive Strike"
October 8, 2015
SECRET CIA REPORT: Pinochet "Personally Ordered" Washington Car-BombingNational Security Archive Seeks Declassification of CIA Assessment in the Letelier-Moffitt Assassinations
October 7, 2015
Prelude to Iguala: "Heavy-handed police tactics" used against Ayotzinapa students in 2011U.S. Ambassador Wayne said state was "blaming victims" and "denying any responsibility"
September 16, 2015
President's Daily Briefs from Kennedy and Johnson Finally Released (Eight Years After Archive, Professor Larry Berman Lawsuit)CIA Told Courts the PDB Was Itself an Intelligence Method
September 15, 2015
The Anwar al-Awlaki FileFrom American Citizen to Imam to Terrorist to Drone Killing
August 29, 2015
Kazakhstan and Nunn-Lugar: A Non-Proliferation Success StoryKazakh-U.S.-Russian Cooperation at Semipalatinsk and Lessons for Nuclear Security
August 24, 2015
Overhead Imagery: The U.S. TargetNew Documents Trace Controversial Use of Drones and other Aerial Surveillance for Domestic National Security – from Safeguarding Major Sporting Events to Law Enforcement to Tracking Wildfires
August 19 , 2015
The Kissinger Telcons: New Documents Throw Light on Sensitive Ford and Kissinger ViewsDocuments Released by Court Order as Part of National Security Archive FOIA Lawsuit
August 13, 2015
OBAMA’S SECRET DIPLOMACY WITH CUBANew Revelations
August 4, 2015
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War IIUpdated National Security Archive Posting Marks 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Japan and the End of World War II
August 1, 2015
Washington Post Op-Ed Highlights Dubious SecretsClinton e-mails "Potentially Classified"; So Is This Posting
July 31, 2015
Los Quemados: Chile’s Pinochet Covered up Human Rights AtrocityChilean Dictator Rejected Police Report Identifying Army Units which Burned Alive Teenage Protesters in 1986
July 20, 2015
White House Efforts to Blunt 1975 Church Committee Investigation into CIA Abuses Foreshadowed Executive-Congressional Battles after 9/11Advisers to President Ford Sought to Protect CIA's Image Abroad by Having Its Capabilities "Cloaked in Mystery and Held in Awe"
July 17, 2015
Court Rejects Chiquita's Bid to Hide Terror Payment RecordsU.S. Appeals Court Upholds National Security Archive Victory in Fruit Company's "Reverse-FOIA" Action.
July 14, 2015
Iran’s Nuclear Program – Then and NowDocuments from 1970s Presage Issues Surrounding July 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Deal with P5+1.
July 6, 2015
The Pentagon's SpiesNewly Available Documents Trace Evolution of Spy Units through Obama Administration.
July 1, 2015
Srebrenica conference documents detail path to genocide from 1993 to 1995.Documents show contradictions between New York UN declarations and ground realities, resistance from member states to back up resolutions with troops and planes, constant reluctance to use air strikes abetted by divisions within U.S. government, allies.
June 29, 2015
The Gas Centrifuge Secret: Origins of a U.S. Policy of Nuclear Denial, 1954-1960Beginning in 1950s, U.S. Sought to Control Uranium Enrichment Technology that Iranians Are Using Today
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