2018 Annual Report BY THE NUMBERS 1 948 FOIA and declassification requests bringing our all-time total to more than 60 000 requests Archive staff filed We submitted Winning the release of 89 appeals 384 165 previously secret pages 4 354 research requests and hosted 284 visiting researchers in our Smith The Archive received Bagley Research Center IN THE PAPERS The Archive made headlines throughout the year 984 to be exact Here are some of the biggest Cables Detail C I A Waterboarding at Secret Prison Run by Gina Haspel New York Times Aug 10 2018 Torture of al-Qaeda suspect described in 2002 cables sent by CIA Director Gina Haspel Washington Post Aug 10 2018 Fact-checking Donald Trump CIA pick Gina Haspel’s Senate hearing PolitiFact May 9 2018 Ethics training reminds White House staff not to use encrypted messages for government business Washington Post Feb 5 2018 CIA memo describes catlike team members in interrogation sessions CBS News Aug 10 2018 What Gorbachev Did Not Hear The American Interest Mar 12 2018 Judge won't order disclosure of Trump White House visitor logs Politico Jul 26 2018 George H W Bush  The Last Green Republican Huffington Post Dec 4 2018 Declassified US Cables Link Uribe to Colombia Drug Cartels Associated Press News May 26 2018 The War Game that Could Have Ended the World BBC Nov 9 2018 Cables Contain Claims Former Colombian Leader Is Tied to Drug Traffickers New York Times May 25 2018 Guatemalan President Shuts Down Anti -Corruption Probe NPR Sep 3 2018 When Donald Rumsfeld Asks You to 'Solve Pakistan' The Atlantic Jan 31 2018 US Documents on Fall of Indonesia’s Suharto Declassified Latin American Herald Tribune Jul 27 2018 ‘My Dearest Fidel’ An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro Politico Magazine Apr 20 2018 FOR YOUR READING LIST Archive staff published 41 E-books this year bringing our website total to 654 Gina Haspel CIA Torture Cables Declassified Presidential Control of Nuclear Weapons The Football Narcopols Medellín Cartel “Financed” Senate Campaign of Former President Álvaro Uribe Colombian Senators Told U S Embassy Reagan Gorbachev and Bush at Governors Island Rumsfeld Snowflakes Come in from the Cold We published 2 Digital National Security Archive reference collections Soviet-U S Relations The End of the Cold War 1985-1991 CIA Covert Operations III From Kennedy to Nixon 1961-1974 58 posts on our blog Unredacted Are 98% of Federal Agencies Actually on Track to Manage Electronic Records by 2019 Deadline The “Indiana Jones Warehouse ” How to use FOIA to get Documents from Purgatory 40 Cyber Briefs and related postings in our Cyber Vault We created several new public research guides and resources Here are just two of them CyberWar Map Cyber Glossary IN THE COURTS We filed 2 new Freedom of Information Act lawsuits FOIA Lawsuit Wins Chronology of Black Site Waterboarding Supervised by Future CIA Director And State Department US-Russia Relations 2 appeals Trump Visitor Logs On Appeal in 2nd Circuit FOIA Appeal Fights to Preserve WH Emails and Instant Messages Meanwhile 2 other FOIA lawsuits continued to produce new document releases throughout 2018 Department of State’s Dissent Channel Revealed Rumsfeld Snowflakes Come in from the Cold AWARDS Choice Magazine Names Digital National Security Archive an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 Choice Magazine names the Digital National Security Archive an “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2018 The annual award goes to publications deemed especially worthy of attention from academic librarians seeking to build research collections Choice magazine selection as an Outstanding Academic Title 2017 Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton for The Last Superpower Summits Gorbachev Reagan and Bush Conversations that Ended the Cold War National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005