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Briefing Book 107
Compiled and introduced by Malcolm Byrne
Twenty years ago, on December 20, 1983, Donald Rumsfeld, currently the U.S. Secretary of Defense, met with Saddam Hussein during the first of Rumsfeld's two now-famous visits to Baghdad. At the…
Sourcebook
For more information: 202/994-7000
Thomas Blanton / Malcolm Byrne
Links
CIA Whites Out Controversial Estimate on Iraq Weapons
Saddam Hussein: More Secret History
Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein
The U.S. tilts toward Iraq, 1980…
Briefing Book 106
by William Burr
In their accounts of the historic February 1972 trip to China, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger focus on the February 21 meeting with Mao Zedong as well as the talks with Zhou Enlai on the Vietnam…
News 106
Washington D.C. 11 December 2003 - Newly declassified documents posted today on the web by the National Security Archive show that President Nixon assured the People's Republic of China during his…
Briefing Book 105
by Kate Doyle
Lucio Cabaсas Barrientos - a native son of Guerrero, school teacher-turned-revolutionary and chief of the small rebel force dubbed the Party of the Poor - was nothing more than an ordinary bandit,…
Briefing Book 104
Edited by Carlos Osorio, Assisted by Kathleen Costar
Washington, D.C., 4 December 2003 - Newly declassified State Department documents obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act show that in October 1976, Secretary…
Briefing Book 103
Washington D.C. - On the 40th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the eve of the broadcast of a new documentary film on Kennedy and Castro, the National Security Archive today…
Briefing Book 102, FOIA Audit 102
For more informationMeredith Fuchs/Thomas Blanton 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., November 17, 2003 - The oldest Freedom of Information requests that are still pending in the U.S. government date back to the late 1980s, before the collapse of the Soviet Union,…
Briefing Book 101
by John Prados
Washington D.C., November 5, 2003 - A White House tape of President Kennedy and his advisers, published this week in a new book-and-CD collection and excerpted on the Web, confirms that top U.S.…
Briefing Book 100
by Kate Doyle
During Guatemala's protracted and savage internal conflict, which raged from 1963 to 1996, tens of thousands of Guatemalan citizens fled the violence in their country for the safety of Mexico.…
Briefing Book 99
by Kate Doyle
Research AssistanceIsaac Campos Costero Additional ResearchTamara Feinstein and Eli Forsythe
This new Electronic Briefing Book on the Tlatelolco massacre is based on a collaboration between Proceso magazine and the National Security Archive and launched on March 2, 2003. The collaboration…
Briefing Book 98
William Burr, editor
Thirty years ago, on 6 October 1973 at 2:00 p.m. (Cairo time), Egyptian and Syrian forces launched coordinated attacks on Israeli forces in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. Known variously as the…
Briefing Book 97
Edited by Sajit Gandhi
Washington, D.C., September 11, 2003 - Marking the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the National Security Archive at George Washington University today posted on the Web a new…
Briefing Book 96
ContactTamara Feinstein - tfeins7i@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., August 28, 2003 - Marking today's release of the final report of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the National Security Archive posted on the Web 33 of the most…
Briefing Book 95
by Kate Doyle (kadoyle@gwu.edu)Research AssistanceEmilene Martнnez MoralesAdditional ResearchTamara Feinstein and Michael GavinSpecial thanks to John Powers and Ron Sodano of the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives for their guidance and suggestions.
This new Electronic Briefing Book on the Nixon tapes is based on a collaboration between Proceso magazine and the National Security Archive and launched on March 2, 2003. The collaboration grew out…
Briefing Book 94
For more information, 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., 8 August 2003 - The current Bush administration debate over possibly restarting long-halted nuclear weapons tests in order to develop "mini-nuke" "bunker-busters" may be repeating…
Briefing Book 92
by Kate Doyle (kadoyle@gwu.edu) Research AssistanceIsaac Campos Costero
Additional ResearchTamara Feinstein and Emilene Martнnez Morales
This new Electronic Briefing Book on elections in Mexico is the fifth to appear based on a collaboration between Proceso magazine and the National Security Archive and launched on March 2, 2003. The…
Briefing Book 93
Edited by Meredith Fuchs, Barbara Elias, and Thomas Blanton
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 4 - George Washington University's National Security Archive, the leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, today released its annual Freedom of…
News 20030701
William Burr, editor
Recent issues of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Guardian (UK) (Note 1) describe a fascinating experiment, sponsored by Lawrence Radiation Laboratory during the mid-1960s, to determine…
News 20030611
Tom Blanton 202/994-7000 Meredith Fuchs 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., June 11, 2003 - The Congress is poised to give the National Security Agency a free pass from complying with the Freedom of Information Act for any NSA "operational" files, even…
Briefing Book 91
by Kate Doyle (kadoyle@gwu.edu)
Research AssistanceIsaac Campos Costero
Additional ResearchTamara Feinstein and Michael Gavin
This new Electronic Briefing Book on elections in Mexico is the fifth to appear based on a collaboration between Proceso magazine and the National Security Archive and launched on March 2, 2003. The…
Briefing Book 90
Edited by Jeffrey Richelson, William Burr and Thomas Blanton
(with contributions from Michael Evans and Robert Wampler)
The National Security Archive's experience with the U.S. government's declassification process has been a varied one, as it should be given the great diversity of its declassification requests during…
News 90
Thomas Blanton or William Burr 202/994-7000
Washington DC, May 21, 2003 - The Central Intelligence Agency classified and withheld from a Freedom of Information Act release a 25-year-old joke item in a weekly terrorism report about the…
Briefing Book 89
by Kate Doyle (kadoyle@gwu.edu)
Research AssistanceIsaac Campos Costero
Additional ResearchTamara Feinstein and Michael Gavin
Special ThanksMichelle Linder, Amnesty International USA, and David M. Lucey
Twenty-five years ago, during the worst years of Mexico's dirty war, a new consciousness began to dawn in the United States about human rights. The U.S. government was in turmoil. The scandals…
News 20030505
Tom Blanton 202/994-7000 Meredith Fuchs 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., May 5, 2003 - The proposed FY 2004 Defense Authorization Act would throw a cloak of secrecy over valuable National Security Agency ("NSA") records now released under the Freedom of…
Briefing Book 88
dited by Jeffrey T. Richelson
The ability of the United States to gather overhead imagery of targets in foreign nations has evolved dramatically over the last sixty years. Modified bombers and fighters used in World War II and…
Briefing Book 87
Edited by Robert A. Wampler
North Korea's nuclear weapons program has moved back to the front pages with the unprecedented acknowledgement by North Korea during talks this week in Beijing that the North has developed nuclear…
Briefing Book 86
by Kate Doyle (kadoyle@gwu.edu)
Research AssistanceIsaac Campos Costero
Additional ResearchTamara Feinstein and Michael Gavin
This new Electronic Briefing Book on Operation Intercept -- the Nixon government's unilateral attempt in 1969 to halt the flow of drugs from Mexico into the United States -- is the second to appear…
Briefing Book 85
Carlos Osorio and Thomas Blanton
The National Security Archive at George Washington University today published declassified U.S.
News 20030320
Barbara Elias - 202 / 994-7000
Washington, D.C., March 20, 2003 - U.S. Army lawyers identified more than 500 Iraqis allegedly guilty of war crimes during the Gulf War period, according to a November 1992 Defense Department report…
Briefing Book 84, FOIA Audit 84
Thomas Blanton202/994-7000
WASHINGTON, D.C., 14 MARCH 2003 - The National Security Archive at George Washington University today released results from the first-ever government-wide audit of federal responses to Freedom of…
Briefing Book 83
Kate Doyle
Washington, D.C., 2 March 2003 - The National Security Archive at George Washington University today published on the Web a presidential audio tapes and set of declassified U.S. White House and State…
News 20030226
For more information, contactTom Blanton 202/994-7000 Meredith Fuchs 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., February 26, 2003 - The National Security Archive today submitted comments on the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations that detail how the DHS will implement open…
Briefing Book 82
Joyce Battle (202) 994-7145
Washington, D.C., 25 February 2003 - The National Security Archive at George Washington University today published on the Web a series of declassified U.S. documents detailing the U.S. embrace of…
News
Washington, D.C., February 6, 2003 - The National Security Archive yesterday filed an amicus brief in the pending U.S. Supreme Court case, Department of the Treasury v. City…