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Briefing Book 37
Edited by Tamara Feinstein Tamara Feinstein 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Update May 10, 2001: The National Security Archive recently received responses to FOIA requests we sent out earlier this year on Vladimiro Montesinos. These new documents focus on Montesinos' early…
Briefing Book 36
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington, D.C., December 18, 2000 – President Clinton's decision in September to postpone deployment of a National Missile Defense (NMD) system puts the issue in the lap of the next president,…
Briefing Book 28
Edited by Malcolm Byrne Malcolm Byrne 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., November 29, 2000 – The CIA history of operation TPAJAX excerpted below was first disclosed by James Risen of The New York Times in its editions of April 16 and June 18, 2000, and…
News 20001113
Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000
Washington D.C.: The National Security Archive today hailed the release of more than 16,000 secret U.S. records on the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and Washington’s role in the violent overthrow…
News 20001024
Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7116
Washington D.C.: Under pressure from the Clinton White House and human rights groups, the CIA has agreed to release more than 700 documents on covert operations in Chile that the Directorate of…
News 20001006
Jeffrey Richelson 202/994-7000 Michael Evans 202/994-7029
On Friday, October 6, the National Security Archive at The George Washington University published a newly declassified United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID). This version of USSID 18…
News 20000929
Pending in the Senate is a proposal to enact an “Official Secrets Act” for the United States. Section 303 of the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2001, S. 2507, would make it a crime for government…
Briefing Book 35
Edited by Jeffrey T Richelson Jeffrey T Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., September 27, 2000 – In September 1992 the Department of Defense acknowledged the existence of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an agency established in 1961 to manage the…
News 20000919
For more information Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000
After twenty-seven years of withholding details about covert activities following the 1973 military coup in Chile, the CIA released a report yesterday acknowledging its close relations with General…
Book By Csaba Békés, János Rainer and Malcolm Byrne
“There is no publication, in any language, that would even approach the thoroughness, reliability, and novelty of this monumental work …. [I]t will change forever our views of what happened in…
News 20000817
For more information Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000
Context On February 1st, 1999, the Clinton White House ordered the U.S. national security agencies to “retrieve and review for declassification documents that shed light on human rights abuses,…
News 20000808
For more information Tom Blanton (Archive) 202 / 994-7000 Tom Susman/Todd Richman (Ropes & Gray) 202 / 626-3900
WASHINGTON D.C., 8 August – U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has overruled the CIA’s claim that it can neither confirm or deny the existence of CIA-prepared biographies of nine former…
News
For more information:
Tom Blanton/Kate Martin (Archive) 202 / 994-7000
Tom Susman/Todd Richman (Ropes & Gray) 202 / 626-3900
Plaintiff's Original Complaint
and Today's Court Filing
Exhibits in Support of
Today's Court Filing
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 2, 2000 – Lawyers for the National Security Archive…
Briefing Book 34
Edited by Thomas S. Blanton, Michael L. Evans and Kate Martin 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., July 17, 2000 – On July 13, 2000 the Senate passed a measure in the FY 2001 Defense Authorization Act that – if approved by the full Congress – would severely undercut the public's…
Briefing Book 33
Peter Kornbluh, Project Director – 202/994-7029 Rafael Cohen, Research Assistant – 202/994-7000 with editorial assistance by Michael Evans 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., June 30, 2000 – On Friday, June 30, 2000, the U.S. government released hundreds of formerly secret CIA, Defense, State, Justice Deparment, and National Security Council records…
News
From: Center for National Security Studies, Federation of American Scientists, National Security Archive
Re: Freedom of Information Act Exemption for Defense Intelligence Agency Files in…
News
For more information contact:
Jeffrey Richelson – (703) 684-8274
Michael Evans – (202) 994-7029
On Friday, June 23, the National Security Archive published on the Internet a selection of recently declassified documents detailing restrictions intended to ensure that U.S. persons are not…
Briefing Book 32
By Kate Doyle Director, Guatemala Documentation Project Report Editor Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst and Project Director The Guatemala Documentation Project Database Editor Carlos Osorio, Senior Research Associate Contributing Editors Michael Evans, Senior Research Associate Tamara Feinstein, Research Associate Gretta Tovar Siebenttrit, Research Associate Sarah Heidema, Intern Special Thanks Zulima Alvarez
Introduction In July 1994, the Guatemalan government and the URNG signed the Human Rights Accord establishing the Historical Clarification Commission. That same month, the National Security Archive…
Briefing Book 31
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington, D.C., May 24, 2000 – The release of Cold War-era Soviet and East European documents on war plans and nuclear planning raises questions about U.S. war planning during the same period. A…
Briefing Book 30
Edited by Tom Blanton Tom Blanton 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., May 9, 2000 – Late last month, the U.S. Department of State released under the Freedom of Information Act an interagency study of recent U.S. humanitarian interventions titled, "…
Briefing Book 29
Edited by Peter Kornbluh Assisted by Rafael Cohen, Michael Evans and Catherine Nielsen Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., May 3, 2000 – Shortly after the CIA's botched paramilitary invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, President John F. Kennedy established a commission to investigate the failure and to…
Briefing Book 26
Edited by William Burr William Burr 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., March 31, 2000 – During late 1998 and 1999, the Wen Ho Lee espionage controversy and debate over U.S. corporate technology transfers to China made the Chinese nuclear weapons…
News 20000323
By Peter Kornbluh
In May of 1978, the CIA’s National Foreign Assessment Center issued this comprehensive analysis of the Pinochet regime’s responses to being identified as responsible for the most significant act of…
News 20000317
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
On March 17, 2000, Long Island University named The National Security Archive as winner of a Special George Polk Award for 1999 "for serving as an essential journalistic resource and for expanding…
Briefing Book 27
Edited by Tom Blanton Tom Blanton 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., March 14, 2000 – Today's Washington Post features an op-ed on page A17 titled "Hardly a Distinguished Career," written by National Security Archive director Tom Blanton and…
Briefing Book 25
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 25
Published – February 14, 2000
Edited by Kate Doyle and Michael Evans
For more information contact:
Kate Doyle or Michael Evans 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
On January 21, Guatemalan police detained retired Col. Byron Lima Estrada and his son, Capt. Byron Lima Oliva, in connection with the 1998 assassination of Bishop Juan José Gerardi. Although…
Briefing Book 24
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson assisted by Michael Evans Jeffrey Richelson 202/994-7000 Michael Evans 202/994-7029
Washington, D.C., January 13, 2000 – The National Security Agency (NSA) is one of the most secret (and secretive) members of the U.S. intelligence community. The predecessor of NSA, the Armed Forces…