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Briefing Book 54
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., September 10, 2001 – Mention of the Central Intelligence Agency generally elicits visions of espionage and covert action operations. It may also produce images of the multitude…
Sourcebook
The horrific September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon brought all of us here at the Archive feelings of rage at the hijackers, grief for the thousands who were…
Briefing Book 63
The latest phase of military operations in Afghanistan has shifted the emphasis from heavy bombing to more of a “boots on the ground” approach involving hundreds of U.S. special forces units with…
Briefing Book 58
Edited by Dr. Robert A. Wampler
Perhaps the most troubling and terrifying development in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11th is the emergence of biological warfare as a real, instead of a potential, threat for our…
Briefing Book 62
Edited by William Burr and Michael L. Evans
The New Evidence The Indonesian invasion of East Timor in December 1975 set the stage for the long, bloody, and disastrous occupation of the territory that ended only after an international…
News 20011129
Prof. Dr. Vojtech Mastny Project Coordinator
Vienna, Munich, Verona, and other European population and cultural centers were to be “completely destroyed,” according to 1965 Warsaw Pact plans for war in Europe made public today on the Zurich-…
News 20011128
For more information Thomas Blanton, 202/994-7068 Scott Nelson, 202/588-7724
Washington D.C., 28 November 2001- Today the National Security Archive at George Washington University joined the American Historical Association (AHA) and other scholars and public interest groups…
Briefing Book 61
Edited by Robert A. Wampler and Thomas S. Blanton
As noted in Biowar: The Nixon Administration's Decision to End U.S. Biological Warfare Programs, public attention has become intensely focused upon the threat of attack by biological agents, as the…
Briefing Book 60
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Last month's terrorist attacks on the United States generated renewed debate and discussion about ways and means for protecting U.S. domestic territory in the years to come. Believing that national…
Briefing Book 59
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Now living in exile outside of Rome, 87-year old Zahir Shah reigned as king of Afghanistan from 1933 until July 1973, when his cousin, prince Mohammed Daoud Khan, seized power and proclaimed a…
Briefing Book 57
Edited by John Prados and Svetlana Savranskaya
On October 7, the United States launched an attack against targets in Afghanistan in the beginning of what President Bush has promised will be a long campaign against terrorist groups and the states…
Briefing Book 56
William Burr, Editor
In stark contrast to the close U.S.-Russian relationship of today, forty years ago serious tensions over Berlin and Germany and the danger of world war clouded Moscow-Washington relations. Fred…
Briefing Book 55
Edited by Jeffrey Richelson and Michael L. Evans
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the abortive attack (possibly aimed at the White House or Camp David) that resulted in the crash of a jetliner…
Briefing Book 53
Edited by William Ferroggiaro ContactWilliam Ferroggiaro (202) 994-7045 wferro@gwu.edu
Today the National Security Archive publishes on the World Wide Web sixteen declassified US government documents detailing how US policymakers chose to be “bystanders” during the genocide that…
News 20010809
For further information Thomas Blanton, Archive director, 202/994-7068 William Burr, senior analyst, 202/994-7032 Lee Rubin, Mayer Brown & Platt, 202/263-3267
Washington, D.C., August 9 – The State Department today announced that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had returned 10,000 pages of transcripts of his telephone conversations conducted…
Briefing Book 51
Edited by Will Ferroggiaro, Sajit Gandhi, and Thomas Blanton
Washington, D.C., July 4, 2001 – George Washington University's National Security Archive, the leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, today released its first…
Book By Christian F. Ostermann
“This excellent collection of documents ... is an indispensable new source for the study of Cold War history.”
John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University
“The editors, from the National Security Archive…
Briefing Book 50
Edited by Malcolm Byrne
Compiled by Gregory F. Domber
Washington, D.C., June 15, 2001 – Forty-eight years ago, on June 17, 1953, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) erupted in a series of workers' riots and demonstrations that threatened the very…
News 20010613
Contact Christian F. Ostermann 011-49-30-238110 (as of June 13), Malcolm Byrne (202) 994-7043 (e-mailmbyrne@gwu.edu)
Newly published documents on the landmark worker-led uprising of June 1953 in East Germany show that the crisis was far more widespread and protracted than previously believed. The documents,…
Briefing Book 49
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., June 12, 2001 – During the spring and summer of 1969, U.S. government officials watched the ideological and political split between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of…
Briefing Book 48
UPDATED 29 JUNE 2001 - The Secret Briefs and the Secret Evidence
Edited by Thomas S. Blanton
Compiled by John Prados, Eddie Meadows, William Burr, and Michael Evans
For more information contact:
Thomas S. Blanton 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., June 5, 2001 – Thirty years ago this month, President Nixon picked up his Sunday New York Times on June 13, 1971 to see the wedding picture of his daughter Tricia and himself in the…
Briefing Book 47
Edited by Michael Evans Michael Evans 202/994-7029 or mevans@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., June 4, 2001 – In June 1999 the National Security Archive published Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History, an online collection of declassified State Department documents…
Briefing Book 46
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., May 23, 2001 – A key part of the Central Intelligence Agency’s mission, since its creation in 1947, has been the conduct of human intelligence operations – which have included the…
News 20010518
William Burr202 / 994-7032
WASHINGTON, DC - President Dwight D. Eisenhower's top secret instructions that delegated nuclear-launch authority to military commanders and the Secretary of Defense under specific emergency…
Briefing Book 45
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 45
Published – May 18, 2001
Edited by William Burr
For more information contact:
William Burr 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., May 18, 2001 – The National Security Archive publishes here for the first time President Dwight D.
News 20010430
In his new exposй of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of proposals on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS.…
Briefing Book 44
Edited by Michael Evans Michael Evans 202/994-7029 or mevans@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., April 23, 2001 – On Friday, April 20, 2001, a Peruvian Air Force jet, acting on intelligence supplied by a U.S. intelligence plane, shot down a civilian aircraft that was mistakenly…
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Briefing Book 41
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington, D.C., April 9, 2001 –The ongoing Chinese-American controversy over the EP-3 aircraft that landed on Hainan Island on 31 March 2001 is the latest moment in a long and complex history of U.…
News 20010405
Gregory F. Domber202 / 994-7076
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Twelve years ago today in Warsaw members of Poland’s communist government, officials of the Catholic Church, and representatives of the Solidarity trade union signed the Round…
Briefing Book 42
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 42
Published – April 5, 2001
Edited by Gregory F. Domber
For more information contact:
Gregory F. Domber 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., April 5, 2001 – On April 5 Poland celebrates the twelfth anniversary of the signing of the Round Table Agreements -- a landmark power-sharing agreement negotiated by…
Briefing Book 43
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington, D.C., April 2001 – The Bush administration is in the midst of a nuclear posture review. In his May 1 speech, President George W. Bush announced his support for missile defense and cuts in…
Briefing Book
Havana, Cuba: Documents discussed on the second day of an historic meeting of former adversaries in Havana show that CIA officials believed that the Cuban people would welcome a U.S.-sponsored…
News
Havana, Cuba: Documents released this afternoon on the second day of an historic meeting of former adversaries in Havana highlight missed opportunities for U.S.-Cuban rapproachment following the…
News
Havana, Cuba: British documents released on the first day of an historic conference on the Bay of Pigs show that CIA Director Allen Dulles hoped that British refusal to sell military items…
Briefing Book
Havana, Cuba: On the eve of an historic meeting in Havana, former combatants, covert operatives, policy makers and Cuban government officials gathered to discuss one of the most infamous…
News 20010306
On March 6, 2001, The New York Times reported the existence of a recently declassified State Department document revealing that the United States facilitated communications among South American…
Briefing Book 40
Edited by Tom Blanton Tom Blanton 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., March 2, 2001 – The Bush administration has floated the name of Otto Juan Reich for possible nomination as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs (see Al Kamen, "In…
Briefing Book 39
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 39
Published –January 17, 2001
Edited by William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson
For more information contact:
William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., January 17, 2001 – On the morning of August 2, 1990 the mechanized infantry, armor, and tank units of the Iraqi Republican Guard invaded Kuwait and seized control of that…
News 20010117
Jeffrey Richelson703/684-8274
Washington, D.C. -- During the early morning hours (Baghdad time) of January 17, 1991, the United States and its allies initiated Operation Desert Storm in accord with United Nations resolutions and…
Briefing Book 38
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 38
Published –January 12, 2001
Edited by William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson
For more information contact:
William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., January 12, 2001 – International Security has just published, in its Winter 2000/2001 issue, an article, "Whether To 'Strangle the Baby in the Cradle'": The United States…
News 20010112
William Burr202/994-7032 Jeffrey Richelson703/684-8274
Washington, D.C. -- President John F. Kennedy and top advisers considered bombing strikes and covert paramilitary operations to destroy China's nascent nuclear weapons program in the early 1960s,…