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Briefing Book 23
: Robert S. Norris, NRDC, 202/289-2369 William M. Arkin, 802/457-3426 William Burr, National Security Archive, 202/994-7032 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., December 13, 1999 – For more than 40 years, the United States has kept secret the fact that it once deployed nuclear weapons on two Japanese islands, Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima,…
Briefing Book 22
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Security Archive and its research partners in East and Central Europe today released previously secret documents from…
Briefing Book 21
Edited by Malcolm Byrne Malcolm Byrne 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., November 5, 1999 – The shocking seizure of the American embassy and its staff in Tehran on November 4, 1979, placed U.S.-Iran relations firmly in the deep freeze. Whatever hopes…
Briefing Book 20
Edited by William Burr :?William Burr 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., October 13, 1999 – In recent years, India and Pakistan have made the front pages by testing nuclear weapons and defying the nuclear nonproliferation regime established by the United…
News 19991008
On October 8, 1999, the U.S. Government released 1100 documents on Chile. Among them is a declassified State Department report on the case of Charles Horman, an American citizen who was killed by the…
Briefing Book 19
Edited By Jeffrey T. Richelson; : Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., September 24, 1999 The relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the fifty years since the PRC was established on October 1, 1949 has been…
Briefing Book 17
June 30, 1999--The National Security Archive, Center for National Security Studies and Human Rights Watch hailed today’s release of more than 20,000 pages of U.S. documents on Chile. The records,…
Briefing Book 16
Edited By Jeffrey T. Richelson and Michael L. Evans; :?Jeffrey T. Richelson or Michael L. Evans 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., June 1, 1999 – The relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China over the fifty years since the PRC was established on October 1, 1949 has been…
News 19990527
For More Information Please Call Jeffrey T. Richelson, Project Director(202) 994-7000 Michael L. Evans, Project Associate(202) 994-7029
Several years ago, the National Security Archive initiated a project to obtain critical declassified documentation on key aspects of the U.S.-China relationship, focusing on the period from 1969 to…
Briefing Book 15
:?Kate Doyle, National Security Archive (202) 994-7035 ?Patrick Ball, American Association for the Advancement of Science (202) 326-6799 ?Hugh Byrne, Washington Office on Latin America (202) 797-2171 ?Anne Manuel, Human Rights Watch (202) 612-4321
Washington, D.C., May 20, 1999 – The Guatemalan military kept detailed records of its death squad operations, according to a document released by four human rights and public interest groups today.…
News 19990513
WASHINGTON, May 13, 1999 — Challenging seven years of the CIA's broken promises on declassification, the National Security Archive at George Washington University today filed a Freedom of Information…
News 19990427
Thursday, April 29, 1999 2:00-4:00 p.m. Funger Hall (2201 G. St, NW), Room 108 Followed by a book signing (books will be on sale). For more information, call 994-7000 Co-sponsored by the Elliot…
Briefing Book 14
:?202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., April 23, 1999 – This documentary supplement to the article, "Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall," has been prepared on the occasion of the Washington summit marking…
Briefing Book 13
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson; : Jeffrey T. Richelson at 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., April 14, 1999 – The use of overhead platforms to observe events on the earth can be traced to the French Revolution, when France organized a company of aerostiers, or balloonists,…