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Briefing Book 147
Edited by Barbara Elias
"A Comprehensive Strategy to Fight Al-Qaeda"? Rice versus Clinton on January 2001 Clarke Memo Washington, D.C., September 27, 2006 - In a series of recent public statements, Secretary of State…
Briefing Book 175
Dr. Robert Wampler - wampler@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., December 14, 2005 - Secretary of State James Baker warned in 1991 that Japan's "bitter history" with the Koreas would "inhibit policy coordination," even though "Japan has important…
News
By Bill Moyers
This is the prepared text of the address delivered on December 9, 2005, by Bill Moyers for the 20th anniversary of the National Security Archive, a non-governmental research institute and library at…
News 20151209
Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., December 9, 2005 - More than three years before the 9/11 attack on the United States, U.S. officials warned Saudi Arabia that Osama bin Laden "might take the course of least…
News
Washington, D.C., December 9, 2005 - The National Security Archive celebrates its 20th anniversary today with a special event at George Washington University, headlined by Bill Moyers, with…
News 20051201
John Prados - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., 1 December 2005 - The largest U.S. intelligence agency, the National Security Agency, today declassified over 140 formerly top secret documents -- histories, chronologies, signals…
News 174
Washington, D.C., November 28, 2005 - Today, East Timorese President Xanana Gusmгo transmits to Parliament the final report of East Timor's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR)…
Briefing Book 174
Edited by Brad Simpson
Director, Indonesia-East Timor Documentation Project
For more information contact:
Brad Simpson - 609/751-8206
bsimpson@princeton.edu
Today, as East Timorese President Xanana Gusmão transmits to East Timor's Parliament the 2,500 page final report of the country's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) …
Briefing Book 173
By William Burr 202/994-7032
Washington, D.C., November 23, 2005 - The nuclear war plans that constitute the Single Integrated Operational Plan have been among the most closely guarded secrets in the U.S. government. The handful…
Briefing Book 172
Svetlana Savranskaya/Tom Blanton 202/994-7000
Washington D.C. November 22, 2005 - Twenty years ago this week the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union concluded their Geneva Summit, which became the first step on the road to…
Briefing Book 171
By Derek Chollet and Bennett Freeman
Washington, D.C., November 21, 2005 - Every work of history is not just a statement about the past, but a reflection of the era -- if not the precise year -- during which it was written. This is…
Briefing Book 170
By Kate Doyle kadoyle@gwu.edu Phone - 646/613-1440, ext. 238 or 646/670-8841 Research AssistanceEmilene Martнnez Morales
Washington, D.C., November 21, 2005 - On July 5, officials from the Guatemalan government's human rights office (PDH - Procuradurнa de Derechos Humanos) entered a deteriorating, rat-infested…
Briefing Book 169
Kate Doyle - kadoyle@gwu.edu Research AssistanceEmilene Martнnez Morales?Additional ResearchCecilia Golombek
Washington, D.C., November 18, 2005 - Investigative journalist Frank Smyth breaks new ground in documenting links between retired Guatemalan military officers and drug trafficking into the United…
Briefing Book 168
Svetlana Savranskaya - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C. October 26, 2005 - Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, who died in Moscow last week at the age of 81, was probably the best known "architect of perestroika." Soviet ambassador to Canada,…
News 20051021
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., October 21, 2005 - U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer has accepted the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) contention that every single word of a 50-page National Intelligence…
Briefing Book 167
Jeffrey Richelson - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C. October 18, 2005 - The National Security Archive today posted a series of declassified U.S. intelligence documents and other U.S. agency reports on Saddam Hussein's human rights…
News 20051010
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., October 10, 2005 - The National Security Archive, along with other openness advocates, today filed a "friend of the court" brief with the United States Supreme Court asking the…
Briefing Book 166
Michael Evans - 202/994-7029
Washington D.C. October 16, 2005 - Today, the Colombia Documentation Project proudly announces the first in a series of articles to be published in collaboration with Semana, Colombia's leading news…
News 20051013
Washington, D.C., October 13, 2005 - The White House disregarded intelligence projections on post-Saddam Iraq according to a newly-declassified CIA report, "Intelligence and Analysis on Iraq: Issues…
News 20050318
David Dean/Katie Feiock, James & Hoffman, 202/496-0500 Thomas Blanton/Meredith Fuchs, National Security Archive, 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., March 18, 2005 - The National Security Archive today filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of the Air Force for a…
News 20051006
Washington, D.C., October 6, 2005 - After failing in 2000, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is again seeking an exception from disclosure of vast quantities of important Defense Department…
News 20050928
Washington, D.C., September 28, 2005 - Marking International Right to Know Day, the National Security Archive commended the Department of State for including access to government information as one…
Briefing Book 165
For further informationBarbara Elias - 202/994-7000 Graphics by Jamie Noguchi, Research Assistant
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2005 - Ten minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA…
Briefing Book 164
Edited by Robert A. Wampler - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C. August 23, 2005 - Next week, if all goes according to plan, the United States will resume six-party talks with North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia and host nation China on the…
Pre-9/11 U.S. Attempts to Drive Bin Laden Out of Afghanistan Repeatedly Unsuccessful, Documents Show
Briefing Book 134up
Edited by Barbara Elias; : Barbara Elias202 994-7045 / belias@gwu.edu
Washington, August 18, 2005 - The U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan told a top Taliban official in September 2000 that the U.S. "was not out to destroy the Taliban," but the "UBL [Osama bin Laden] issue is…
Briefing Book 163
For more informationMalcolm Byrne - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., August 17, 2005: Newly declassified State Department documents show that government experts warned the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in early 2003 about "serious planning gaps for…
Briefing Book 162
Edited by William Burr - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., August 5, 2005 - Sixty years ago this month, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and the Japanese government…
Briefing Book 161
:?Ralph Begleiter, University of Delaware (302) 831-2687 ?Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, National Security Archive (202) 994-7000?Thomas Blanton, Director, National Security Archive (202) 994-7000?Daniel Mach, Counsel, Jenner & Block (202) 637-6313
Full Statement of Ralph J. Begleiter (Rosenberg Professor of Communication, Distinguished Journalist in Residence, University of Delaware): "The Pentagon's decision to release these nearly 800 images…
Briefing Book 160
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C. August 3, 2005 - The National Security Archive, along with other secrecy experts, today filed a “friend of the court” brief in a lawsuit challenging the FBI’s authority to issue…
Book By Vojtech Mastny and Malcolm Byrne
"[Mastny] and Byrne are to be congratulated for producing this monumental volume, with a trove of translated documents that is a major boon to both scholars and teachers."
William E. Odom (Lt. Gen…
Briefing Book 159
William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington D.C. July 1, 2005 - A decision to use nuclear weapons is one of the most politically, militarily, and morally perilous decisions that a U.S. president, or any leader of a nuclear state,…
News 20050629
William Burr - 202/994-7032 - wburr@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., June 29, 2005 - President Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger saw India as a "Soviet stooge" during the South Asia crisis of 1971, downplayed reports of…
Briefing Book 156a
Washington D.C. June 22, 2005 - The senior FBI official now revealed as "Deep Throat" - the Watergate source for Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward - ordered his subordinates to "forcibly remind…
Briefing Book 157
Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7116 - pkorn@gwu.edu
Washington D.C. June 9, 2005 - Luis Posada Carriles spoke of plans to "hit" a Cuban airliner only days before Cubana flight 455 exploded on October 6, 1976, killing all 73 passengers aboard,…
Briefing Book 156
Richard A. Moss, editor
Washington D.C. June 3, 2005 - There are few references in the surreptitiously recorded Nixon Tapes to W. Mark Felt, the former high-level FBI official recently unmasked as "Deep Throat," but the…
Briefing Book 155
William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington D.C. June 1, 2005 - The failure of the recently concluded review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, at a time when the future of the non-proliferation system is in…
Briefing Book 153
Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7116
Washington D.C. May 18, 2005 - The National Security Archive today posted additional documents that show that the CIA had concrete advance intelligence, as early as June 1976, on plans by Cuban exile…
Briefing Book 154
Vojtech Mastny 202/415-6707 Malcolm Byrne - 202/994-7043
Washington D.C. May 13, 2005 - The Soviet-led Warsaw Pact had a long-standing strategy to attack Western Europe that included being the first to use nuclear weapons, according to a new book of…
News 20050510
Tom Blanton/Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., May 10, 2005 - The D.C. Circuit today issued a unanimous, en banc decision effectively ending the effort by the Sierra Club and Judicial Watch to obtain information about who…
Briefing Book 152
:?Ralph Begleiter, University of Delaware (302) 831-2687 ?Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, National Security Archive (202) 994-7000?Thomas Blanton, Director, National Security Archive (202) 994-7000?Daniel Mach, Counsel, Jenner & Block (202) 637-6313
Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005 - In response to Freedom of Information Act requests and a lawsuit, the Pentagon this week released hundreds of previously secret images of casualties returning to…
Briefing Book 151
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
Washington D.C., April 12, 2005 - As the Senate Intelligence Committee convenes to consider the nomination of John Negroponte to be Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Archive…
Briefing Book 150
Edited by Tamara Feinstein Intern AssistanceSara Coburn
Washington D.C., March 24, 2005 - The CIA was surprised by Israeli agents' capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960, and a subsequent CIA file review uncovered extensive ties…
News 20050317
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Nixon Library to revise exhibits, participate in new Vietnam conference, Donate most pre- and post-presidential materials to National Archives Including "personal/political" 700 hours cut from tapes…
News 20050310
Thomas Blanton
March 10, 2005 TO: Members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives Committees on Appropriations, Government Affairs, and Government Reform We are writing to request that Congress suspend…
Briefing Book 149
Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7116 pkorn@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., March 15, 2005 - Washington D.C.: The National Security Archive tonight posted key documents released on March 15 by the Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on…
News 20050315
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you for this opportunity to speak with you about the Freedom of Information Act and the necessary reforms that would be enacted by the OPEN Government…
Briefing Book 24
Edited by Jeffrey Richelson
Washington, D.C., March 11, 2005 - The largest U.S. spy agency warned the incoming Bush administration in its "Transition 2001" report that the Information Age required rethinking the policies and…
News 20050302
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Statement by Thomas S. Blanton, National Security Archive, George Washington University March 2, 2005 Hearing on "Emerging Threats: Overclassification and Pseudo-classification" 2154 Rayburn House…
Briefing Book 148
Edited by Barbara Elias
Washington, D.C., February 10, 2005 - February 10, 2005 - As a result of a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed by the National Security Archive, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)…
Briefing Book 146
Edited by Tamara Feinstein
Washington D.C., February 4, 2005 - Today the National Security Archive posted the CIA's secret documentary history of the U.S government's relationship with General Reinhard Gehlen, the German army'…
News 20050121
Tom Blanton - 202/994-7000 Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., January 21, 2005 - The National Security Archive this week submitted comments on the Central Intelligence Agency's decennial review of the record categories that the CIA has…