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Washington D.C., November 10, 2020 — After Harvard professor Henry Kissinger met with top Israeli officials in January 1965, he told U.S.
Edited by William Burr and
Avner Cohen

Washington D.C., May 25, 2020 –The National Security Archive marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 99th birthday today with the publication for the first time in English of his extraordinary
Translated by Anna Melyakova, edited by Svetlana Savranskaya

Top Secret Chernobyl:
The Nuclear Disaster through the Eyes of the Soviet Politburo, KGB, and U.S. Intelligence
Volume 2
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, Sarah Dunn and Brooke Lennox

Washington D.C., March 16, 2020 - During the Cold War, false alarms of missile attacks were closely held matters although news of them inevitably leaked.
Edited by William Burr
Update for Briefing Book #371 originally posted on March 1, 2012

Washington D.C., September 22, 2019 – An unidentified flash on 22 September 1979 in the far South Atlantic had a “90% plus” probability of being a nuclear test, according to a CIA finding from later that year.
Edited by William Burr, Avner Cohen, and Richard Wolfson

Washington, D.C., May 30, 2019 – The National Security Archive joins our international and Guatemalan colleagues in calling for the protection of the Historical Archive of the National Police (AHPN) of Guatemala, which faces new t
Update for Guatemala Police Archive under Threat posting
Edited by Kate Doyle

Washington D.C., May 25, 2019 - The National Security Archive marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 98th birthday today with the publication for the first time in English of his extraordinary Diary for
Translated by Anna Melyakova, edited by Svetlana Savranskaya

The National Security Agency (NSA) has formally recommended terminating its controversial phone and text surveillance program, according to the Wall Street Journal.[1] The program has bee
Edited by Rosemary Tropeano

Washington D.C., April 22, 2019 - Black blotches mar the surface of the Mueller Report like measles cases tracked on a map of Brooklyn. Some 176 of the 448 pages feature at least one redaction, according to the Washington Pos
Edited by Tom Blanton
Update for Briefing Book #670, originally posted April 18, 2019

The foundations of today’s internet rest on Cold War-era research and development performed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and researchers associated with the Department of Defense’s
Edited by Michael Martelle

November 29, 2018 – The formal launch today in Colombia of the Commission for the Clarification of the Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition (Truth Commission) is an important step forw
Edited by Michael Evans

Washington D.C., May 25, 2018 - The National Security Archive marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 97th birthday today with the publication for the first time in English of his extraordinary Diary for
Translated by Anna Melyakova
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya

Washington, D.C., May 25, 2018 - A Colombian senator told the U.S.
Edited by Michael Evans, Director, Colombia Documentation Project, National Security Archive

Washington, D.C., March 7, 2018 – A passage from a recently declassified document on the 1953 coup in Iran alleges that senior Iranian clerics received “large sums of money” from U.S.
Edited by Malcolm Byrne and Mark Gasiorowski
For more information contact:
Malcolm Byrne, 202/994-7000 or mbyrne@gwu.edu
Mark Gasiorowski, gasiorowski@tulane.edu

Washington, D.C., January 31, 2018 – Like so many treasure hunters, beachcombers, and curio shoppers, U.S.
Edited by James E. David
For more information, contact: James E. David at davidjj@si.edu
or The National Security Archive at: 202-994-7000, nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington, D.C., July 17, 2017 – The Department of Homeland Security will release the visitor logs for President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort by September 8,
Edited by Lauren Harper and Tom Blanton
For further information, contact: 202.994.7000 and nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington, D.C., June 15, 2017 – The State Department today released a long-awaited “retrospective” volume of declassified U.S.
Edited by Malcolm Byrne
For further information, contact: Malcolm Byrne, 202/994–7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Japan Announces Policy Change on Plutonium Overhang
Possible Turning Point for Nuclear Nonproliferation Efforts
Edited by William Burr
For more information contact
William Burr: 202/994-7000 and nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington, D.C., June 2, 2017 – The Ford administration came close to igniting a constitutional showdown with Congress more than 40 years ago over demands by a House panel known as the Pike Committee for evidence of possible abus
Edited by John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
For further information, contact: John Prados, 202/994–7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington, D.C., May 25, 2017 –The National Security Archive marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 96th birthday today with the publication for the first time in English of his extraordinary
Translated by Anna Melyakova
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya
For more information, call or email: 202.994.7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington, D.C., May 18, 2017 – The National Security Archive’s Chiquita Papers collection represents key evidence behind a
Edited by Michael Evans
Research assistance by Emily Taylor and Julian Moreno
This is the fourth and final article in a series published by the National Security Archive in collaboration with VerdadAbierta.com
For further information, contact: mevans@email.gwu.edu Twitter: @colombiadocs

The FARC, the ELN, and to a lesser extent, the EPL, along with their dissident offshoots and political allies all profited from Chiquita’s security payments.
Edited by Tatiana Navarrete, Michael Evans y Juan Diego Restrepo E.
Research assistance: Emily Taylor
For further information, contact: mevans@email.gwu.edu Twitter: @colombiadocs

Washington, D.C., May 2, 2017 – Chiquita’s Colombia-based staff questioned the company’s payments to illegal armed groups, and asked whether Chiquita had gone beyond extortion and was directly funding the activities o
Edited by Michael Evans
For further information, contact: mevans@email.gwu.edu Twitter: @colombiadocs

Washington D.C., April 27, 2017 – The infamous Southern Cone collaboration known as “Operation Condor” considered establishing “field offices” in the United States and Europe, and Condor members Argentina, Uruguay and Chile were “
Edited by Carlos Osorio
For further information, contact Carlos Osorio: cosorio@gwu.edu

Washington, D.C., April 10, 2017 – The National Security Archive, together with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW),
Edited by Lauren Harper, Nate Jones, and Tom Blanton
For further information, contact: 202.994.7000 and nsarchiv@gwu.edu

The NUMEC Affair: Did Highly Enriched Uranium from the U.S. Aid Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program?
Edited by
Roger J. Mattson, Avner Cohen, and William Burr, editors, Israeli Nuclear History Series
For more information contact
Roger Mattson: rdmattson@gmail.com
William Burr: 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu.

FreedomInfo.org, the National Security Archive’s sister site that is a one-stop portal for RTK developments around the world, has an extended list of this year’s RTK success stories here.
Edited by Lauren Harper and Tom Blanton
Design by Rinat Bikineyev
For more information, contact Lauren Harper, 202.994.7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington D.C., September 23, 2016 – A CIA special intelligence assessment in 1987 concluded that Chilean General Augusto Pinochet ordered an “act of state terrorism” on the streets of Washington, D.C., that took the lives of for
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
For further information, contact:
Peter Kornbluh: 202-374-7281 or peter.kornbluh@gmail.com

Washington D.C., September 14, 2016 - President Richard Nixon may never have even read the President’s Daily Briefs partially declassified and released by the CIA with great fanfare on August 24, 2016.
Edited by William Burr
For more information contact:
William Burr at 202/994-7000 ornsarchiv@gwu.edu.

Washington, D.C., August 11, 2016 – In September 1980, the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires transmitted a detailed six-page cable, entitled “The Tactic of Disappearance,” to the State Department.
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Carlos Osorio, with research support fromAdeline Hite
For further information, contact:
Carlos Osorio: cosorio@gwu.edu
Peter Kornbluh: peter.kornbluh@gmail.com

Washington DC, July 1, 2016 - Fifty years ago on July 4, 1966, Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Freedom of Information Act while vacationing at his Texas ranch.
Edited by Tom Blanton and Lauren Harper
For more information, call or email:
The National Security Archive, 202.994.7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington D.C., May 27, 2016 - As a federal tribunal in Buenos Aires announced guilty verdicts in the historic prosecution of eighteen Argentine military officers for participating in the coordinated, cross-border system of repre
Edited by Carlos Osorio and Peter Kornbluh
For more information, call or email: 202.994.7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington, DC, May 25, 2016 – Today the National Security Archive is publishing – for the first time in English – the diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev covering the year 1976, along with edits and a postscript by the author.
Translated by Anna Melyakova, edited by Anna Melyakova and Svetlana Savranskaya
For more information, call or email: 202.994.7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington, March 18, 2016 – As President Obama prepares to go to Argentina next week on the 40th anniversary of the military coup, the National Security Archive hailed his decision to declassify hundreds of still secre
Carlos Osorio: 301-442-7551 or cosorio@gwu.edu,
Peter Kornbluh: 202-374-7281 or peter.kornbluh@gmail.com

Washington, D.C., February 5, 2016 – The top leaders of the Soviet Union discussed the case of controversial CIA spy Adolf Tolkachev during the Politburo meeting on September 25, 1986, according to the transcript published today i
Compiled and edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton
Web programming by Rinat Bikineyev; series editing by Malcolm Byrne
For more information, contact: 202.994.7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Related Materials
Nunn-Lugar Revisited
U.S.-Russian cooperation on threat reduction from the Soviet Union in 1991 to Syria in 2013
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 447
Edited by Tom Blanton and Svetlana Savranskaya
For more information, contact Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton: 202.994.7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu.

The Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council has won the infamous Rosemary Award for worst open government performance of 2014, according to the citation published today by the National Security Archive at
For more information contact:
Tom Blanton, Director, National Security Archive - 202/994-7000
Lauren Harper, Associate FOIA Project Director - 202/994-7045
nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Washington, DC, March 24, 2014 – Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has won the infamous Rosemary Award for worst open government performance in 2013, according to the citation published today by the National Security Archive at
For more information contact:
Tom Blanton, Director, National Security Archive - 202/994-7000
Nate Jones, Freedom of Information Coordinator - 202/994-7045
nsarchiv@gwu.edu

Related Links
New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis
By Robert Beckhusen, Wired, May 16, 2013
Edited by Nate Jones
Assisted by Lauren Harper
For more information contact:
Nate Jones 202/994-7000 or foiadesk@gwu.edu