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Briefing Book 12
: 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C. – To commemorate the historic competition of a U.S. and Cuban baseball team on a diamond in Havana this Sunday, the National Security Archive today posted a collection of documents…
News 19981023
ContactSusan Peacock (202)994-7213
Washington, D.C. October 23, 1998 -- The CIA yesterday declassified its secret Inspector General's report on controversial CIA activities in Honduras during the 1980's. The report states officially…
Briefing Book 11
By Kate Doyle and Carlos Osorio
THE DOCUMENTS Document 1 [U.S. Counter-Terror Assistance to Guatemalan Security Forces] ?January 4, 1966 ?United States Agency for International Development, Secret cable U.S. Public Safety Advisor…
Briefing Book 10
By Kate Doyle
Washington, D.C. – Mexico's tragedy unfolded on the night of October 2, 1968, when a student demonstration ended in a storm of bullets in La Plaza de las Tres Culturas at Tlatelolco, Mexico City. The…
News 19980911
On the 25th anniversary of the military coup in Chile, the National Security Archive today released a collection of declassified U.S. government documents that chronicle the dramatic events in Chile…
Briefing Book 8
By Peter Kornbluh
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 8
For more information contact:
Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C. – September 11, 1998 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The violent overthrow of the democratically-elected Popular Unity…
Briefing Book 7
By Bill Burr
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 7
For more information contact:
Bill Burr 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C. – In August 1948, the U.S. Air Force created the Office of Atomic Energy-1 [AFOAT-1], giving it responsibility for managing the Atomic Energy Detection System [AEDS] discovering…
News 19980604
Contact PersonPeter Kornbluh 202-994-7116
Washington, D.C.: Thirty-seven years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the CIA today released a secret after-action report entitled "Record of Paramilitary Action Against the Castro Government…
Book By Stephen I. Schwartz with Thomas S. Blanton, William Burr et al.
Briefing Book 6
By Joyce Battle
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 6
For more information contact:
Joyce Battle 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
This briefing book contains material from the National Security Archive's project on U.S. policy toward South Asia, which is documenting nuclear developments in India and Pakistan from the 1950s to…
News 19980513
Washington, D.C. -- May 12, 1998 --In the wake of India's first nuclear weapons tests in 24 years, the National Security Archive has published 22 declassified U.S. government analyses of the Indian…
Briefing Book 9
WASHINGTON, D.C. - 20 March 1998 -- Recently declassified U.S. government documents, now published by the National Security Archive disclose one of the Cold War's deepest secrets, that during the…
Book By Willam M. Arkin
News 19980222
Contact personPeter Kornbluh 202-994-7116
Washington D.C.: A key document in the history of covert warfare, the CIA's own internal investigation into the April 1961 debacle at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, was made public today.
News 19980120
ContactSusan Peacock (202) 994-7213
Washington D.C. January 21, 1998 -- The National Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras, Dr. Leo Valladares, today called on the Clinton administration to "meet its commitment" to assisting his…
Book By Leo Valladares Lanza and Susan C. Peacock