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Briefing Book 263
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., December 23, 2008 - Amidst a massive bombing campaign over North Vietnam, Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon candidly shared their evident satisfaction at the “shock…
Briefing Book 264
Edited by Richard A. Moss and Luke A. Nichter, www.NixonTapes.org
Nixontapes.org and the National Security Archive are pleased to bring you the complete phone conversations of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger as captured by…
Briefing Book 262
Editado por Alfredo Boccia y Carlos Osorio Colaboraciуn Editorial de Rosa Palau y Marianna Enamoneta Para mбs informaciуn contactar aCarlos Osorio - 202/994-7061 cosorio@gwu.edu
Washington D.C., diciembre 21, 2008 – El National Security Archive publica hoy evidencias clave del Archivo del Terror de Paraguay que muestran que el Jefe de la Policía Secreta trató de…
Briefing Book 261
Edited by Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton :(202) 994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington DC, December 8, 2008 - Previously secret Soviet documentation shows that Mikhail Gorbachev was prepared for rapid arms control progress leading towards nuclear abolition at the time of his…
News 20081202
: Kate Doyle - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., December 2, 2008 - National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" yesterday featured Archive senior analyst Kate Doyle in an extensive segment on the infamous 1968 Tlatelolco…
Briefing Book 260
Matthew Aid (202) 994-7000
Washington DC, November 14, 2008 - Forty-six years ago, a month before the Cuban Missile crisis, Soviet leaders put their strategic forces on their “highest readiness stage since the beginning of the…
News 20081112
Thomas Blanton/Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., November 12, 2008 - The Obama administration can act quickly after taking office in January to reverse the secrecy trend of the last eight years and restore openness in the executive…
Book By Jeffrey T. Richelson
News 20081110
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000?John B. Williams/Sheila L. Shadmand [Jones Day] - 202/879-3939
Washington D.C., November 10, 2008 - A court ruled today that the National Security Archive may proceed with its effort to force the White House to recover millions of Bush Administration Executive…
Court Rebukes CIA on Freedom of Information, Recognizes Journalists, Not CIA, Determine What Is News
News 20081105
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., November 5, 2008 - In a striking rebuke to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday…
News 20081031
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., October 31, 2008 - In an opinion issued today in a case brought by the National Security Archive, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center,…
News 20081024
Tom Blanton/Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000?David Vladeck - 202/662-9540
Washington, D.C., October 24, 2008 - Today, in response to a petition filed by the National Security Archive and several historical associations, the National Archives and Records Administration (…
News 20081017
Thomas Blanton/Ilyse Veron - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., 17 October 2008 – The new documentary film on the Bush administration’s interrogation and detention policies, Torturing Democracy, will air on Washington D.C.’s WETA-TV tonight at…
Briefing Book 259
Michael Evans - 202/994-7029
Washington D.C., October 5, 2008 - As Colombian prosecutors begin to reopen investigations against individuals connected to one of the worst massacres in the country’s modern history, the National…
Briefing Book 258
Kate Doyle kadoyle@gwu.edu Susana Zavala zavalasusana@gmail.com
Washington D.C., October 2, 2008 - We have arrived at the fortieth anniversary of the massacre at Tlatelolco with little to report. The events of that terrible day remain shrouded in the kind of…
Briefing Book
by staff
In 2006, fiercely-contested presidential elections with an uncertain outcome rattled Mexico’s openness community. The Federal Institute for Access to Information (IFAI), along with journalists…
Briefing Book 257
Jeffrey T. Richelson - (202) 994-7000
Washington D.C., September 18, 2008 - Today, on the 16th anniversary of the declassification of the fact of the existence of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Reconnaissance…
News 20080911
Thomas Blanton or Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000 David Vladeck - 202/662-9535
Washington, D.C., September 11, 2008 – – The Julius and Ethel Rosenberg grand jury transcripts released today as the result of legal action by the National Security Archive and a coalition of…
Briefing Book 255
Peter Kornbluh- (202) 994-7116, peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington D.C., September 10, 2008 - On the eve of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the military coup in Chile, the National Security Archive today published for the first time formerly secret…
Briefing Book 256
Kate Doyle- 202/994-7000
Lima, Peru (September 8, 2008) – National Security Archive Senior Analyst Kate Doyle testified yesterday before Peru’s Special Tribunal of the Supreme Court of Justice in the case against former…
Briefing Book 254
John Prados - (202) 994-7000
Washington D.C., August 22, 2008 - The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according…
Briefing Book 253
Barbara Elias - (202) 994-7000
Washington D.C., August 20, 2008 - On the tenth anniversary of U.S. cruise missile strikes against al-Qaeda in response to deadly terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, newly-…
News 20080729
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000?John B. Williams/Sheila L. Shadmand [Jones Day] - 202/879-3939
Washington D.C., July 29, 2008 - Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola of the U.S. District Court today denied a motion by the White House to reconsider his earlier recommendations and reaffirmed his…
News 20080722
Tom Blanton/Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000 David Vladeck - 202/662-9540
Washington D.C., July 22, 2008 - After hearing arguments today, a federal court in New York decided that the government must release most of the sealed grand jury records from the 1951 indictment of…
Briefing Book
By Michael Dobbs
Washington, DC, July 2, 2008 - Senior Kennedy administration aides claimed incorrectly that U.S. warships had come “eyeball to eyeball” with Soviet missile-carrying ships during the Cuban…
News 20080626
Tom Blanton/Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000 David Vladeck - 202/662-9540
Washington D.C., June 26, 2008 - Responding to a petition filed in January by the National Security Archive and several leading U.S. historical associations for the release of grand jury records from…
Briefing Book
By Michael Dobbs
Washington, DC, June 25, 2008 - American signals intelligence collectors tracked the activation of Soviet air defenses prior to the shootdown of a U.S. spy plane at the peak of the Cuban missile…
Briefing Book
By Michael Dobbs
Washington, DC, June 18, 2008 - The CIA failed to identify the storage bunkers for Soviet nuclear warheads in Cuba during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis, despite obtaining numerous…
Briefing Book 252
Joyce Battle - (202) 994-7145
Washington D.C., June 13, 2008 - Recently declassified documents show that the U.S. military has long sought an agreement with Baghdad that gives American forces virtually unfettered freedom of…
News 20080611
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., June 11, 2008 - The National Security Archive’s General Counsel today warned that while “the establishment of trusted pathways for information is obviously essential to coordination…
Briefing Book
By Michael Dobbs
Washington, DC, June 11, 2008 - An American spy plane went missing over the Soviet Union at the height of the Cuban missile crisis for one and a quarter hours without the Air Force informing…
Briefing Book
By Michael Dobbs
For more information contact:
Michael Dobbs
www.michaeldobbsbooks.com
Washington, DC, June 4, 2008 - Soviet nuclear-tipped cruise missiles were ready to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo had the U.S. military persuaded President Kennedy to invade Cuba…
Book By Michael Dobbs
Briefing Book 251
Compiled and edited by Thomas Blanton and Svetlana Savranskaya : For more information, 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Left: President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev on Red Square in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral, May 31, 1988, with interpreter Pavel Palazhchenko to the right. Just out of the picture…
Briefing Book 250
Svetlana Savranskaya - 202/994-7000
Washington D.C., May 23, 2008 - Today, the National Security Archive publishes its third installment of the diary of one of the main supporters of Mikhail Gorbachev and strongest proponents of…
News 20080514
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, May 14, 2008 - The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is overwhelmed and behind the curve, facing huge increases in both electronic records and classified records,…
News 20080508
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, May 8, 2008 - Today's Washington Post devotes the cover of its Style section and a full inside page to the National Security Archive, which the Post calls "the house that FOIA built…
News 20080507
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, May 7, 2008 - The National Security Archive's Meredith Fuchs was featured May 5 in a Fox-5 News (WTTG) expose about the FBI's mismanaged secrets. "The Fox News report would make anyone…
News 20080506
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000?John B. Williams/Sheila L. Shadmand [Jones Day] - 202/879-3939
Washington D.C., May 6, 2008 - The White House yesterday admitted to a federal magistrate judge that it has no computer back-up tapes with data written before May 23, 2003, and that it cannot track…
Briefing Book 249
Washington, D.C., April 30, 2008 - The U.S. Air Force expected to use nuclear weapons against China during the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958, but President Eisenhower required the Air Force to plan…
News 20080424
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000?John B. Williams/Sheila L. Shadmand [Jones Day] - 202/879-3939
Washington D.C., April 24, 2008 - Responding to the National Security Archive's motion in the pending White House e-mail lawsuit, Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola of the U.S. District Court today…
News 20080417
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Today, the White House sought clarification from the court concerning its ability to restore missing records from backup tapes that are currently being preserved. The White House inquiry comes as the…
Briefing Book 248
John Prados - (301) 565-0564
Washington D.C., April 9, 2008 - Previously secret U.S. Air Force official histories of the Vietnam war published today by the National Security Archive disclose for the first time that Central…
Briefing Book 247
Emilene Martínez Morales, Jesse Franzblau
Washington D.C., March 20, 2008 – In celebration of Sunshine Week, the National Security Archive's Mexico Project publishes today a new study of Mexico's transparency law: "FOI in Practice: Measuring…
News 20080319, Rosemary Award 20080319
Thomas Blanton, Meredith Fuchs, Kristin Adair, Catherine Nielsen?202/994-7000
Washington DC, March 19, 2008 - As if the sub-prime credit crisis was not enough, the U.S. Treasury Department today won the fourth annual Rosemary Award for the worst performance by a federal agency…
News 20080318
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, March 18, 2008 - In an order issued today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia directed the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to show cause why it…
Briefing Book 246, FOIA Audit 246
the National Security Archive staffThomas Blanton, Meredith Fuchs, Kristin Adair, Catherine Nielsen 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., March 16, 2008 - President Bush’s executive order for a “citizen-centered” and “results-oriented” Freedom of Information system did improve customer service at federal agencies, but…
News 20080304
Michael Evans - 202/994-7029?mevans@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., March 4, 2008 - A senior Colombian guerrilla leader killed in Ecuador last weekend in a cross-border raid by Colombian forces held secret talks with U.S. diplomats ten years ago in…
Briefing Book 245
William Burr - 202/994-7032 wburr@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., February 26, 2008 - The United States should use its power to "prevent the reemergence of a new rival" either on former Soviet territory or elsewhere, declared a controversial draft…
Book By Andrzej Paczkowski and Malcolm Byrne
“I consider From Solidarity to Martial Law to be a highly successful effort at depicting the events of 25 years ago. These documents also enable us to perceive the path we have traversed since that…
News 20080226
Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000
Washington DC, February 26, 2008 - At a hearing today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, it was disclosed that the White House has received repeated warnings from the…
Briefing Book 244
Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7116 - peter.kornbluh@gmail.com Carlos Osorio - 202/994-7061 - cosorio@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., February 22, 2008 - Declassified U.S. documents posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org) show that the U.S. government had detailed knowledge of…
Briefing Book 243
Edited by Michael Evans Michael Evans - 202/994-7029 mevans@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., February 17, 2008 - U.S. espionage operations targeting top Colombian government officials in 1993 provided key evidence linking the U.S.-Colombia task force charged with tracking…
News 20080131
Thomas Blanton/Meredith Fuchs?202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., January 31, 2008 - The National Security Archive, along with several leading U.S. historical associations, today is filing a petition in federal court in New York City for the…
Briefing Book 242
Edited by Brad Simpson Brad Simpson - 609/751-8206 bsimpson@princeton.edu
Washington, DC, January 28, 2008 - As Indonesia buries the ex-dictator Suharto, who died Sunday at the age of 86, the National Security Archive today posted a selection of declassified U.S. documents…
News 20080124
Tom Blanton - 202/994-7000
Park City, Utah, January 24, 2008 – The new documentary “Secrecy,” made by Harvard professors Peter Galison and Robb Moss, premiered this past week at the Sundance Film Festival, featuring National…
Briefing Book 241
Editado por Carlos Osorio y Jesse Franzblau Con la asistencia en investigación de Susana Zavala en Ciudad de México Para más información contactar a Carlos Osorio(202) 994 7061 cosorio@gwu.edu Jesse Franzblau(202) 994-7237 jessefranzblau@gmail.com
Washington D.C., Enero 20, 2008 –Documentos hechos públicos hoy por el National Security Archive revelan como agentes de un escuadrón de inteligencia argentino fueron capturados por el…
News 20080116
Meredith Fuchs/Tom Blanton [National Security Archive] - 202/994-7000 John B. Williams/Sheila L. Shadmand [Jones Day] - 202/879-3939
Washington DC, January 16, 2008 - In response to a federal court order issued last week, the White House late last night refused to acknowledge any missing e-mails, instead stating that it “has…
Briefing Book 240
Edited by William Burr and Jeffrey Richelson William Burr - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, January 14, 2008: In the wake of the Indian "peaceful nuclear explosion" on May 17, 1974 and growing concern about the spread of nuclear weapons capabilities, the U.S. intelligence…
News 20080108
Meredith Fuchs/Tom Blanton [National Security Archive] - 202/994-7000 John B. Williams/Sheila L. Shadmand [Jones Day] - 202/879-3939
Washington DC, January 8, 2008 -In an Order issued today, Magistrate Judge Facciola of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the White House to answer questions about…
News 20071217
Thomas Blanton/Meredith Fuchs/Kristin Adair202/994-7000
Washington DC, January 2, 2008 - In one of his last decisions of the year on Monday, December 31, 2007, President Bush signed into law the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reform bill (S. 2488). The…