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Briefing Book 20130108
Jeffrey T. Richelson - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., January 8, 2013 - As the United States prepares to transition this month from Cold War-era missile detection programs to a more sophisticated infrared platform, recently declassified…
Briefing Book 235
Edited by Jeffrey Richelson Jeffrey Richelson - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., November 9, 2007 - In anticipation of the planned launch of the final Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite tomorrow evening, which was originally scheduled to be orbited in…
Briefing Book 229
Edited by Jeffrey Richelson Jeffrey Richelson - 202/994-7000
Update - Washington, D.C., April 11, 2008 – The policy debate over using U.S. reconnaissance satellites to obtain imagery of targets in the United States dates back to the earliest days of spy…
Briefing Book 239b
Editado por Carlos Osorio y Mariana Enamoneta Para mas información contactar a Carlos Osorio(202) 994-7061 cosorio@gwu.edu Peter Kornbluh(202) 994-7116 peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington D.C., Diciembre 21, 2007 –En ocasiуn del 15 aniversario del descubrimiento del Archivo del Terror en Paraguay, el National Security Archive publica nuevas pruebas de la coordinaciуn de las…
Briefing Book 239d
Editado por Carlos Osorio y Mariana Enamoneta Para mas informaciуn contactar aCarlos Osorio(202) 994-7061 cosorio@gwu.edu Peter Kornbluh(202) 994-7116 peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington D.C., December 21, 2007 – On the fifteenth anniversary of the discovery of the Archive of Terror in Paraguay, the National Security Archive posted Spanish-language documents that reveal…
Briefing Book 239
Por Carlos Osorio y Marianna Enamoneta Para mбs informaciуn contactar a:
Carlos Osorio(202) 994-7061 cosorio@gwu.edu Peter Kornbluh(202) 994-7116 peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington, D.C., Diciembre 21, 2007 – En conmemoración del 15 aniversario del Archivo del Terror, el National Security Archive pone hoy en línea el catálogo público de 60,000…
Briefing Book 239c
Editado por Carlos Osorio y Mariana Enamoneta Para mas información contactar a Carlos Osorio(202) 994-7061 cosorio@gwu.edu Peter Kornbluh(202) 994-7116 peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington D.C., Diciembre 21, 2007 – En el marco de la celebraciуn del 15 aniversario del descubrimiento del Archivo del Terror, el National Security Archive publica hoy evidencias que las…
News 20071214
Meredith Fuchs/Tom Blanton [National Security Archive] - 202/994-7000 John B. Williams/Sheila L. Shadmand [Jones Day] - 202/879-3939
Washington DC, December 14, 2007 -The National Security Archive yesterday rebutted the government’s argument for dismissal of the Archive’s lawsuit in federal district court seeking to recover 5…
Briefing Book 237
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Jeremy Bigwood : Peter Kornbluh/Jeremy Bigwood- 202/994-7116
Washington, DC, December 10, 2007 : As disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori goes on trial in Lima, Peru, for human rights atrocities, the National Security Archive posted a declassified…
Briefing Book 238
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton Svetlana Savranskaya or Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., December 10, 2007 - Previously secret Soviet Politburo records and declassified American transcripts of the Washington summit 20 years ago between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet…
Briefing Book 236
Edited by William Burr
Update - 1 October 2009 - On 11 September 2009, as a sidebar to the posting "Previously Classified Interviews with Former Soviet Officials Reveal U.S. Strategic Intelligence Failure Over Decades,"…
News 20071115
Peter Kornbluh202/994-7116 peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington DC, November 15, 2007 - In the first Congressional hearing held on the controversial case of violent Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on…
News 20071113
Meredith Fuchs/Tom Blanton, 202-994-7000
Washington DC, November 13, 2007 -A federal judge yesterday ordered the Executive Office of the President to preserve all e-mail backup media in its possession, or under its custody or control, under…
Briefing Book 234
Edited by John Prados John Prados - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, November 5, 2007 - CBS News’ 60 Minutes exposure last night of the Iraqi agent known as CURVEBALL has put a major aspect of the Bush administration’s case for war against Iraq back…
Briefing Book 233
Edited by William Burr
Washington, DC, November 2, 2007 - Then-national security adviser Henry A. Kissinger colluded with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to keep the U.S. Secretary of State in the dark about ongoing…
News 20071029
Meredith Fuchs/Tom Blanton, 202-994-7000
Washington DC, October 29, 2007 - The National Security Archive filed a motion on Friday, October 26, seeking expedited discovery against the Executive Office of the President to find out what e-…
Briefing Book 232
Edited by Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7116
Washington, DC, October 25, 2007 - As a lock of Che Guevara's hair along with photos, captured documents, intelligence intercepts, and original fingerprints relating to the capture, execution and…
Briefing Book 231
Edited by Jeffrey Richelson Jeffrey Richelson - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, October 1, 2007 - Today the National Security Archive publishes a collection of documents concerning U.S. policy with regard to acknowledging the “fact of” U.S. satellite…
News 20071001
Meredith Fuchs202/994-7000
Washington DC, October 1, 2007 - A District Court in the District of Columbia has ruled that an Executive Order issued by President George W. Bush in 2001, which severely slowed or prevented the…
Briefing Book 230
Edited by Jeffrey Richelson Jeffrey Richelson - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, September 17, 2007 - Today the National Security Archive publishes a collection of documents concerning the organization and operations of the Pentagon's Counterintelligence Field…
Briefing Book 228
Edited by William Burr
Washington DC, September 10, 2007 - In the spring of 1991, leaks to the Washington Times on intelligence community discussions of the nuclear activities of the Algerian government and a Chinese…
News
Larry Berman, Thomas Burke, Duffy Carolan, Davis Wright Tremaine, Meredith Fuchs, Thomas Blanton
San Francisco, California, 5 September 2007 - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week held that the disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act of two Presidential Daily…
News 20070905
Meredith Fuchs/Tom Blanton [National Security Archive] - 202/994-7000 John B. Williams/Sheila L. Shadmand [Jones Day] - 202/879-3939
Washington DC, September 5, 2007 - The National Security Archive today sued the White House seeking the recovery and preservation of more than 5 million White House e-mail messages that were…
News 9/5/2007
Thomas Blanton or Meredith Fuchs202/994-7000
Washington, DC, September 5, 2007 --The United States District Court for the District of Columbia today largely rejected the government’s attempt to withhold without explanation all records…
Briefing Book 227
Edited by Barbara Elias Barbara Elias - 202/994-7000 belias@gwu.edu
Washington D.C., August 14, 2007 - A collection of newly-declassified documents published today detail U.S. concern over Pakistan's relationship with the Taliban during the seven-year period leading…
Briefing Book 226
Edited by William Burr
202/994-7000
Washington D.C., August 10, 2007 - The Central Intelligence Agency has lost documents concerning its investigation of the mysterious 1948 murder of CBS reporter George Polk, and destroyed its file on…
Briefing Book 225
Edited by Jeffrey Richelson Jeffrey Richelson - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., July 13, 2007 - Throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s, while the U.S. government conducted its space reconnaissance program under a veil of absolute secrecy, officials debated…
News 20070712
Meredith Fuchs202/994-7000
Washington DC, July 12, 2007 - At a hearing of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management, on classification of national security information…
News 20070703
Meredith Fuchs202/994-7000
Washington DC, July 3, 2007 - As the 41st birthday of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) approaches, a coalition of groups urged the U.S. Congress to pass a bill - currently locked behind a closed…
Briefing Book 224, FOIA Audit 224
Tom Blanton/Meredith Fuchs, 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., July 2, 2007 - The oldest Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests still pending in the federal government were first filed two decades ago, during the Reagan presidency,…
Briefing Book 223
Edited by Michael Evans Michael Evans - 202/994-7029 mevans@gwu.edu
Washington D.C., July 1, 2007 - As a growing number of Colombian government officials are investigated for ties to illegal paramilitary terrorists, a 1979 report from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotб…
Briefing Book 222
Edited by Thomas Blanton Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Update - June 26, 2007, 1 p.m. - The full "family jewels" report, released today by the Central Intelligence Agency and detailing 25 years of Agency misdeeds, is now available on the Archive's Web…
Briefing Book 221
Edited by William Burr
Washington DC, June 15, 2007 - The unfolding controversies over the Iranian and Korean nuclear programs show the extreme difficulty of persuading a government to reverse its nuclear weapons program.…
Briefing Book 220
Svetlana Savranskaya 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, May 25, 2007 - Today the National Security Archive publishes the second installment of the diary of one of the key behind-the-scenes figures of the Gorbachev era--Anatoly Sergeevich…
Briefing Book 218
Edited by Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7116 peter.kornbluh@gmail.com Marian Schlotterbeck - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., May 3, 2007 (Updated - May 14, 2007) - A Venezuelan employee of Cuban exile and indicted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles conducted surveillance on targets "with a link to Cuba" for…
Briefing Book 219
Edited by Joyce Battle Joyce Battle - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., May 8, 2007 - In January 2003 Defense Department planners recommended the creation of a "Rapid Reaction Media Team" to serve as a bridge between Iraq's formerly state-controlled news…
News 20070503
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, May 3, 2007 - The National Security Archive and several other public interest organizations argued yesterday, in an amicus curiae brief filed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, that…
News 20070416
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, April 16, 2007 - Yesterday, Fox News Sunday featured a segment with Chris Wallace interviewing Archive director Tom Blanton. Secret documents featured on the Fox News Sunday show…
Briefing Book 217
Edited by Michael Evans Michael Evans - 202/994-7029 mevans@gwu.edu
Washington D.C., March 29, 2007 - New documents published today by the National Security Archive shed light on recent revelations about the links between bananas and terror in Colombia and the…
News 20070322
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, March 22, 2007 - At a hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment on "Over-classification and…
News 20070316, Rosemary Award 20070316
Thomas Blanton/Catherine Nielsen,?National Security Archive - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., 16 March 2007 - The U.S. Air Force today won the third annual Rosemary Award, which recognizes the worst Freedom of Information Act performance by a federal agency. Given annually by…
News 20070314
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, March 14, 2007 - National Security Archive General Counsel Meredith Fuchs today testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in support of a FOIA reform bill introduced…
News 3/16/2007
By Tom Blanton
The American ideal of open government has reached critical condition and needs intensive care. We have enough lab results to know the news is bad: *The oldest still-pending Freedom of Information Act…
Briefing Book 216, FOIA Audit 216
Thomas Blanton, Meredith Fuchs, Kristin Adair, Catherine Nielsen 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., 12 March 2007 - Ten years after Congress enacted the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments (E-FOIA), only one in five federal agencies actually complies with the law,…
Briefing Book 215
Thomas Blanton
Washington D.C., March 7, 2007 - The declassified documents introduced as evidence during the trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, provide an almost…
News 20070301
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, March 1, 2007 - Since 2001, the government has added five years of delay into the process of releasing presidential records, according to testimony delievered today by Archive…
Briefing Book 214
Edited by Joyce Battle and Thomas Blanton Editorial Assistance by Malcolm Byrne, John Prados, and Justin Snyder; Thomas Blanton/Joyce Battle - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., February 14, 2007 - The U.S. Central Command's war plan for invading Iraq postulated in August 2002 that the U.S. would have only 5,000 troops left in Iraq as of December 2006,…
News 20070214
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, February 14, 2007 - National Security Archive General Counsel Meredith Fuchs today told the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives of the House Committee on…
News 20070207
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, February 7, 2007 - The CIA's proposed new rule on Freedom of Information Act processing fees is likely to discourage FOIA requesters while imposing new administrative burdens both on…
Briefing Book 213
Edited by Prof. Vilйm Pre?an (Czechoslovak Documentation Centre), Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton (National Security Archive) Translations and editorial assistance by Derek Paton Scanning and other research assistance by Catherine Nielsen, Maria Lorena Martinez, Dr. Mary E. Curry, and Petr Blaћek Svetlana Savranskaya/Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000 Czechoslovak Documentation Centre http://www.csds.cz
Washington D.C., January 6, 2007 - The Czechoslovak human rights activists who launched the landmark Charter 77 movement secretly gathered their first 240 signatures on handwritten cards without…