1996 postings and publications

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The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
Briefing Book 2
202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C. – An August, 1996, series in the San Jose Mercury News by reporter Gary Webb linked the origins of crack cocaine in California to the contras, a guerrilla force backed by the Reagan…
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Book By Tina Rosenberg
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction (1996)  Winner of the National Book Award (1996) 
Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian Gulf War
Book By John Prados
The United States, China, and the Bomb
Briefing Book 1
William Burr
Washington, D.C. – The National Security Archive has initiated a special project on the Chinese nuclear weapons program and U.S. policy toward it. The purpose is to discover how the U.S. government…