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Briefing Book 80
Edited by Jeffrey Richelson
Between Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, and the commencement of military action in January 1991, then President George H.W. Bush raised the specter of the Iraqi pursuit of nuclear weapons…
Briefing Book 81
Edited by
William Burr, National Security Archive and Jeffrey Kimball, Professor of History, Miami University
Today, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published an article, "Nixon's Nuclear Ploy,'' by National Security Archive senior analyst William Burr and Miami University historian Jeffrey Kimball,(1…
Briefing Book 79
Edited by Sajit Gandhi
Washington D.C. - Today, on the 31st anniversary of the creation of Bangladesh, the National Security Archive published on the World Wide Web 46 declassified U.S. government documents and audio clips…
Briefing Book 78
Edited by Joyce Battle
Of the many responses of the Bush administration to the events of September 11, 2001, one of the most significant and most widely discussed was its intensified and greatly expanded propaganda program…
Briefing Book 77
Carlos Osorio and Thomas Blanton
On the 25th anniversary of the disappearance of leaders of the internationally renowned civil disobedience group the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, recently declassified US documents show that the…
Briefing Book 76
Edited by Malcolm Byrne
Forty-six years ago, at 4:15 a.m. on November 4, 1956, Soviet forces launched a major attack on Hungary aimed at crushing, once and for all, the spontaneous national uprising that had begun 12 days…
Briefing Book 75
William Burr and Thomas S. Blanton, editors
Washington, D.C., 31 October 2002-- Forty years ago today, the U.S. Navy forced to the surface a Soviet submarine, which unbeknownst to the Navy, was carrying a nuclear-tipped torpedo. This was the…
Special Exhibit
Press releases, selected documents, photographs, audio clips and other material from the historic conference in Havana.
Formerly secret documents from U.S., Cuban, Soviet and East Bloc archives.…
Briefing Book 74
Jeffrey T. Richelson, editor
Today, October 16, 2002, the National Security Archive publishes on the Web a comprehensive documentary history of U.S. aerial espionage in the Cold War and beyond. This publication comes 40 years to…
News
Thomas S. Blanton, Peter Kornbluh
Havana, Cuba, 12 October 2002, 1 p.m. - During the third session of the historic 40th anniversary conference on the Cuban missile crisis, participants including Cuban president Fidel Castro and…
News
Thomas S. Blanton, Peter Kornbluh
Havana, Cuba, 11 October 2002, 5 p.m. - During the second session of the historic 40th anniversary conference on the Cuban missile crisis, participants including Cuban president Fidel Castro and…
News
Thomas S. Blanton, Peter Kornbluh
Havana, Cuba, 11 October 2002, 1 p.m. - During the first session of the historic 40th anniversary conference on the Cuban missile crisis, participants including Cuban president Fidel Castro and…
News
Thomas S. Blanton, Peter Kornbluh
Havana, Cuba, 10 October 2002 - Senior surviving veterans of the Cuban missile crisis arrived today in Havana for a historic 40th anniversary conference co-organized by the National Security…
News
Thomas S. Blanton, Peter Kornbluh
Washington, D.C., 1 October 2002 – The National Security Archive at George Washington University announced today that the senior surviving veterans of the Cuban Missile Crisis will gather in…
News 20020920
Prof. Dr. Vojtech Mastny Project Coordinator
Generals Jaruzelski, Siwicki, Tuczapski, and 6 other top-ranking Polish insiders of the Soviet military alliance reveal unprecedented details about its functioning and plans against NATO during the…
Briefing Book 73 part 2/2
Edited by Carlos Osorio
Assisted by
Kathleen Costar, research and editorial assistance Florence Segura, research assistance of the National Security Archive
Natalia Federman, research assistance and Spanish translation of CELS
Washington, D.C., 21 August 2002 - State Department documents released yesterday on Argentina's dirty war (1976-83) show that the Argentine military believed it had U.S. approval for its all-out…
Briefing Book 73 part 1/2
Edited by Carlos Osorio; Assisted by Kathleen Costar, research and editorial assistance Florence Segura, research assistance of the National Security Archive
Washington, D.C., 21 August 2002 - State Department documents released yesterday on Argentina's dirty war (1976-83) show that the Argentine military believed it had U.S. approval for its all-out…
Briefing Book 72
Edited by Tamara Feinstein, [Phone202 / 994-7219] Director, Peru Documentation Project
Introduction On the evening of September 14, 2000, Peruvian cable TV station Canal N broadcast a video of Peruvian intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos apparently giving a bribe of $15,000 to…
Briefing Book 71
Edited by Carlos Osorio Director, Southern Cone Documentation Project Phone202 / 994-7061 Research and editing assistanceKathleen Costar, National Security Archive Research and translation assistance Dr. Ariela Peralta, SERPAJ Uruguay, CEJIL USA
Newly declassified documents detail the Nixon administration's broad-gauged efforts to prevent a victory by the leftist “Frente Amplio” in the Uruguayan presidential elections of 1971. The documents…
Briefing Book 68
By Kate Doyle Senior Analyst and director of the Mexico Project, National Security Archive
Mexico City, 10 June 2002—Mexico’s first national freedom of information initiative became the law of the land today, when it was signed by President Vicente Fox Quesada in a ceremony held at the…
Briefing Book 70
William Burr, editor, with Sharon Chamberlain (George Washington University), Gao Bei, and Zhao Han (University of Virginia)
The Lead-Up to Nixon's Trip to China: U.S. and Chinese Documents and Tapes
News 20020515
For further information contact Peter Kornbluh 202 / 994-7116 pkorn@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., May 15 – The National Security Archive at George Washington University today posted on the Web a declassified Presidential Directive, signed by Jimmy Carter, which stated: “I have…
Briefing Book 69
Edited by Michael Evans Director, Colombia Documentation Project Phone202 / 994-7029
Summary and Findings Over the past 15 years, Congress has insisted that U.S. security assistance for Colombia be restricted to combating the drug trade rather than fighting the long-standing civil…
Briefing Book 67
Edited by Peter Kornbluh For Further information Contact Piero Gleijeses - 202 363-3815 (h) Piero Gleijeses - 202 663-5779 (w) Peter Kornbluh - 202 994-7116
NEW BOOK based on Unprecedented Access to Cuban Records; True Story of U.S.-Cuba Cold fear Clash in Angola presented in Conflicting Missions Washington D.C.: The National Security Archive today…
Briefing Book 66
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Last week, President Bush visited Beijing on the anniversary of Richard Nixon's visit in February 1972, the first presidential trip to China.(1) To commemorate further the Nixon trip, the National…
News 20020211
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., February 11 – In answer to a three-year-old National Security Archive request, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) today confirmed that former national security…
Briefing Book 65
Edited by Thomas Blanton and Michael L. Evans
The PBS documentary Bill Moyers Reports: Trading Democracy, which premieres tonight, February 5, at 10 p.m. Eastern time (local times may vary) exposes an obscure provision of the North American Free…
News 20020122
Tamara Feinstein
Washington, D.C., January 22, 2002 – The National Security Archive today published on the World Wide Web forty-one declassified U.S. government documents detailing human rights atrocities over the…
Briefing Book 64
Edited by Tamara Feinstein
On November 21, 2000, the Peruvian Congress voted to remove Alberto Fujimori as president, declaring him morally unfit for office and rejecting his resignation letter sent from Japan—where he had…