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Briefing Book 212
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Yvette White Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281; 202/994-7116 Yvette White - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., December 12, 2006 - As Chile prepared to bury General Augusto Pinochet, the National Security Archive today posted a selection of declassified U.S. documents that illuminate the…
Briefing Book 209
Kate Doyle - 646/670-8841 kadoyle@gwu.edu Research AssistanceJesse Franzblau
Update - December 12, 2006 Communiquй from Authors of the Draft Report of the Special Prosecutor (in Spanish) Click here to read the press release (also in Spanish) The authors of the draft report of…
Briefing Book 211
Malcolm Byrne - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., December 11, 2006 - Twenty-five years ago this week, at 6:00 a.m. on December 13, 1981, Polish Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski appeared on national TV to declare that a state of…
Briefing Book 210
Malcolm Byrne - 202/994-7043 Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7116 Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., November 24, 2006 - On November 25, 1986, the biggest political and constitutional scandal since Watergate exploded in Washington when President Ronald Reagan told a packed White…
Briefing Book 208
John Prados - 301/565-0564 Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., November 10, 2006 - Bush administration nominee for Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates had a long career in government which showed a notable combination of ambition and caution,…
Briefing Book 207
Introduced by Roger Strother; John Prados - 301/565-0564 or Roger Strother - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., November 4, 2006 - In late April 1999, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), led by Marine General Anthony Zinni (ret.), conducted a series of war games known as Desert…
Briefing Book 206
: Thomas Blanton/Malcolm Byrne - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., October 31, 2006 - Fifty years ago today the Soviet Presidium overturned its earlier decision to pull its troops out of Hungary in the face of a popular uprising, yet the CIA--with…
Briefing Book 205
Edited by Robert A. Wampler
Washington D.C., October 26, 2006 - A CIA panel of experts concluded in 1997 that North Korea was likely to collapse within five years, according to declassified documents posted today…
News 20061019
Meredith Fuchs/Catherine Nielsen - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, October 19, 2006 - Today the National Security Archive responded to the "Attorney General's Report to the President Pursuant to Executive Order 13,392, Entitled 'Improving Agency…
Briefing Book 204
Kate Doyle, Jefferson Morley, Jesse Franzblau
Washington, DC, October 18, 2006 - The CIA's reliance on high-level informants including the President of Mexico for "intelligence" about the student protest movement in 1968 that culminated in…
Briefing Book 203
Edited by Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton Svetlana Savranskaya/Thomas Blanton 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C. and Reykjavik, Iceland - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev almost achieved a deal 20 years ago at the 1986 Reykjavik summit to abolish nuclear weapons, but…
Briefing Book 197
Edited by William Burr For more information: Dr. William Burr/Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Cold War Missile Numbers "De-re-classified" On 26 September 2006, the Department of Defense's Washington Headquarters Services duly released, as a result of an administrative appeal, unredacted…
News 20061010
Meredith Fuchs/Catherine Nielsen - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, October 10, 2006 - One in four veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are filing disability claims, according to records released by the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA)…
Briefing Book 202
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Yvette White Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7116 - peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington D.C., October 5, 2006 - On the 30th anniversary of the first and only mid-air bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere, the National Security Archive today posted on the…
News 20061001
John Prados - 301/565-0564 Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., October 2, 2006 - For understandable reasons, the George W. Bush administration has shunned comparisons between the war in Iraq and the Vietnam War. But in his latest book, State of…
Briefing Book 201
Kate Doyle 202/994-7000
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 200
Jeffrey Richelson 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, September 22, 2006 - The prospects of a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in the early 1990's led China to accelerate its testing schedule and discuss differences within…
Briefing Book 199
Peter Kornbluh 202/374-7281 peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington, DC, September 20, 2006 - On the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt, the National…
Briefing Book 198
Farrah Hassen and Malcolm Byrne
"Iraq is not Afghanistan; U.S. should make commitment to Iraq like Japan and Germany. Note military government idea did not go down well." ?- Overview, Future of Iraq Project "The period immediately…
Briefing Book 196
Edited by Barbara Elias
: Barbara Elias - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC - August 11, 2006 - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) this week released full transcripts of the air traffic control recordings from the four flights hijacked on…
Briefing Book 195
Edited by William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball William Burr - 202/994-7000 Jeffrey Kimball - 513/529-5121
Washington, DC - July 31, 2006 - During the past year, indications that the Bush White House was seriously considering a "nuclear option" against Iranian nuclear sites understandably alarmed many in…
Briefing Book 194
Edited by Thomas Blanton Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, 4 July 2006 - Forty years ago on July 4, 1966, Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Freedom of Information Act while vacationing at his Texas ranch. But the event does not even appear…
Briefing Book 180
Kate Doyle - 646/670-8841 kadoyle@gwu.edu; Research AssistanceEmilene Martнnez Morales
Update - June 19, 2006 Open Letter to the Fox administration from three authors of the draft report (Alberto Lуpez Limуn, Josй Luis Moreno Borbolla and Agustнn Evangelista Muсoz) (in Spanish). After…
News 20060614
Meredith Fuchs/Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000 Patrick J. Carome, 202-663-6000
Washington D.C., 14 June 2006 - The National Security Archive today filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),…
Book By Vojtech Mastny, Sven G. Holtsmark and Andreas Wenger
Briefing Book 193
William Burr 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, 26 May 2006 - Today the National Security Archive announces the publication of the most comprehensive collection ever assembled of the memoranda of conversations (memcons) involving…
Briefing Book 192
Svetlana Savranskaya 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, May 25, 2006 - Today the National Security Archive is publishing the first installment of the diary of one of the key behind-the-scenes figures of the Gorbachev era - Anatoly…
Book Compiled by Gregory F. Domber, Andrzej Paczkowski, Mariusz Jastrząb, Paweł Sowiński
Briefing Book 188
William Burr, Editor 202/994-7032
Washington, DC, April 21, 2006 - Last month the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) put almost 320,000 declassified cables on-line when it opened up State Department document…
Briefing Book 191
Svetlana Savranskaya or Thomas Blanton 202/994-7000
May 12, 2006 - Thirty years ago today, the physicist Yuri Orlov gathered a small group of human rights activists in the apartment of prominent Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov in Moscow to establish…
Briefing Book 190
Jeffrey T. Richelson - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, May 5, 2006 - Many U.S. government officials and scientists disagreed with the findings of a presidential panel that the double flash signal picked up by a U.S. nuclear detonation…
Book By Jaromír Navrátil et al.
“I am happy that the cooperation between the National Security Archive in Washington and the Czech foundation ‘Prague Spring 1968’ has resulted in this voluminous collection of documents, which, I…
Briefing Book 189
Avner Cohen, 202/489-6282 or National Security Archive, 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, April 28, 2006 - Today the National Security Archive publishes for the first time 30 recently declassified U.S. government documents disclosing the existence of a highly secret policy…
News 20060426
Meredith Fuchs 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., 26 April 2006 - Today the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) released an audit report of the secret historical document reclassification program conducted at the National…
News 20060419
William Burr/Meredith Fuchs 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., 19 April 2006 - Monday, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein released a declassified Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Central Intelligence Agency, signed in…
News 20060419a
David P. Dean, 202-496-0500 Meredith Fuchs, 202-994-7000
Washington D.C., 19 April 2006 - A federal court today granted partial summary judgment to the National Security Archive finding that the Air Force has violated the Freedom of Information Act and has…
Briefing Book 187
Jeffrey Richelson, Editor 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, April 13, 2006 - Long before India detonated a nuclear device in May 1974, the U.S. Intelligence Community was monitoring and analyzing Indian civilian and military nuclear energy…
News 20060411
Thomas Blanton/William Burr/Meredith Fuchs 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., 11 April 2006 - The National Archives and Records Administration secretly agreed to a covert effort, led by the Air Force, the CIA, and other still-hidden intelligence entities, to…
News 20060407
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., 7 April 2006 - Only 14 of the full 93 pages of the National Intelligence Estimate that President Bush authorized Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to…
Briefing Book 186
Jeffrey Richelson, Editor 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, March 28, 2006 - The Central Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office used the nation's spy satellites and spy planes to obtain high-resolution images of the nuclear…
Briefing Book 185
Washington, D.C., March 23, 2006 - On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, the National Security Archive posted a series of declassified U.S. documents and, for the…
Briefing Book 184
Jeffrey Richelson, Editor 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, March 21, 2006 - The U.S. Intelligence Community devoted significant effort to the collection and analysis of intelligence concerning the French nuclear weapons program beginning in…
Briefing Book 183, FOIA Audit 183
Kristin Adair, Freedom of Information Associate?Meredith Fuchs, Archive General Counsel?Thomas Blanton, Archive Director?202/994-7000
Washington D.C., March 14, 2006 - The first-ever government-wide audit of the ways that federal agencies mark and protect information that is unclassified but sensitive for security reasons has found…
Briefing Book 182, FOIA Audit 182
Barbara Elias, Thomas Blanton, Meredith Fuchs
In an effort to identify the oldest unanswered Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in the federal government, the National Security Archive used the FOIA itself to ask more than 60 federal…
Briefing Book 181
Jeffrey Richelson, Editor 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, March 13, 2006 - The U.S. Intelligence Community failed to penetrate the veil of secrecy surrounding the nuclear activities of South Africa's apartheid regime, particularly its…
Book By Jeffrey T. Richelson
News 20060313
Meredith Fuchs or Kristin Adair 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., 13 March 2006 - The National Security Archive, along with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), on March 10 filed a "friend of the court" brief in the United States…
News , Rosemary Award
Thomas Blanton/Barbara Elias,?National Security Archive - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., 13 March 2006 - The Central Intelligence Agency has won the second annual Rosemary Award, recognizing the worst performance by a federal agency in complying with the Freedom of…
News 182
Barbara Elias, Thomas Blanton, Meredith Fuchs
Washington D.C., March 12, 2006 - The oldest Freedom of Information requests still pending in the U.S. government date back to 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, according to the …
News 20060309
Thomas Blanton or Kristin Adair 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., March 9, 2006 - The Justice Department official who oversaw national security matters from 2000 to 2003 e-mailed his former colleagues after revelation of the controversial…
Briefing Book 179
Edited by Matthew M. Aid Matthew Aid William Burr Meredith Fuchs Thomas Blanton 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., February 21, 2006 - The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and Records…
News 20060213
Thomas Blanton or Meredith Fuchs 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., February 13, 2006 - Under pressure from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the Justice Department on February 10 conceded in federal court that it could begin releasing as early…
Briefing Book 178
Thomas Blanton 202/994-7068
Washington, D.C., February 4, 2006 - Despite objections from then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and then-CIA director George H. W. Bush, President Gerald Ford came down on the side of a…
News 20050715
For more information Matthew W.S. Estes, 202-371-7000 Professor Larry Berman 530/752-3076 Thomas R. Burke, Duffy Carolan, Davis Wright Tremaine 415/276-6500 Meredith Fuchs, Thomas Blanton, National Security Archive 202/994-7000
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19 January 2006
CIA Secrecy Challenged on President's Daily Brief
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Briefing Book 177
Kristin Adair / Thomas Blanton 202 994 7000
Washington, D.C., January 26, 2006 - A secret Pentagon "roadmap" on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003, calls for "boundaries" between…
Briefing Book 176
Edited by Brad Simpson Director, Indonesia-East Timor Documentation Project 609/751-8206 bsimpson@princeton.edu
Washington, D.C., January 24, 2006 - The final report of East Timor's landmark Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) has found that U.S. "political and military support were…
Book By Moscow Helsinki Group