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Briefing Book 313
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Malcolm Byrne (with document advice from William Burr and Tom Blanton)
Washington D.C., November 19, 2019 – One hundred years after the birth of Anatoly Dobrynin, one of the most effective ambassadors of the 20th century, the former dean of the Washington diplomatic…
Briefing Book 316
By Kate Doyle, Jesse Franzblau, and Emily Willard Kate Doyle - kadoyle@gwu.edu Jesse Franzblau -jfranzbl@umich.edu Emily Willard - ewillard@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C. - January 20, 2011 - Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes was arrested in Alberta, Canada on January 18, 2011 on charges of naturalization fraud in the United States. Sosa Orantes, 52, is a…
Briefing Book 333
William Burr - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., December 21, 2010 - The Wikileaks database of purloined State Department cable traffic includes revelations, published in the Washington Post and the New York Times about tensions…
News 20101216
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, December 16, 2010 - Efforts to tighten the secrecy system and crackdown on leakers and the media will be "fundamentally self-defeating," according to Thomas Blanton, executive…
Unredacted blog
Unredacted blog
by Emily Willard
I would like to thank Mr. Kurtz of the National Archives and Records Administration for providing a candid and illuminating response to my previous post of November 17, 2010,…
News 20101209
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, December 9, 2010 - Friends and family of the late Smith Bagley joined the National Security Archive staff and board on December 9 to dedicate and celebrate the new Smith Bagley…
Briefing Book 331
Tom Blanton - 202/994-7000
NEW - November 24, 2010 - Download the Complete Redacted Report as Released by the Department of Justice (PDF - 16MB) NEW - November 15, 2010 - Download the Complete Unredacted Report as Published in…
Briefing Book 332
Christopher Bright CBright@christopherjohnbright.com www.ChristopherJohnBright.com
Washington, D.C., November 16, 2010 - To counter a Soviet bomber attack, U.S. war plans contemplated widespread use of thousands of air defense weapons during the middle years of the Cold War…
News 20101104
For more information, Tom Blanton 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington D.C., November 4, 2010 – President Obama’s new Executive Order on “Controlled Unclassified Information” issued today builds on recommendations from open government groups and the findings…
Unredacted blog
Briefing Book 330
Edited by John Prados and Christopher Ames
Washington, D.C., October 4, 2010 - For nearly a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the British government of Prime Minister Tony Blair collaborated closely with the George W. Bush…
Briefing Book 328
Edited by John Prados and Christopher Ames
Washington, D.C., October 1, 2010 – Contrary to statements by President George W. Bush or Prime Minister Tony Blair, declassified records from both governments posted on the Web today reflect an…
Briefing Book 327
Michael Evans - 202/994-7029 mevans@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., September 29, 2010 - The U.S. ambassador to Colombia reported in 1998 that the "systematic arming and equipping of aggressive regional paramilitaries" was "pivotal" to the military…
Briefing Book 326
Edited by Joyce Battle
Washington, D.C., September 22, 2010 – Following instructions from President George W. Bush to develop an updated war plan for Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered CENTCOM…
Briefing Book 325
Barbara Elias - (202) 994-7000 - belias@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., September 13, 2010 - Pakistani tribal areas where Osama bin Laden found refuge were momentarily open to the Pakistani Army when "the tribes were overawed by U.S. firepower" after 9/…
Briefing Book 324
By Carlos Osorio and Marianna Enamoneta With the Collaboration of Clara Aldrighi Carlos Osoriocosorio@gwu.edu, (202) 994-7061 Clara Aldrighiclara.aldrighi@gmail.com
Washington, D.C., August 11, 2010 - Documents posted by the National Security Archive on the 40th anniversary of the death of U.S. advisor Dan Mitrione in Uruguay show the Nixon administration…
Briefing Book 323
Washington, D.C., August 11, 2010 - The next nuclear policy challenge for the Obama administration, right after Senate action on the New START Treaty, will be Senate ratification of the Comprehensive…
Book By Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton and Vladislav Zubok
“Evocative, illuminating, insightful: This volume is a brilliant collection of documents, conversations, and essays. It is absolutely indispensable for under-standing the end of the Cold War…
News 20100729
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, July 29, 2010 - National Security Archive Director Tom Blanton made a guest appearance on “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central on Tuesday, July 27, to discuss Wikileaks’ release of…
Briefing Book 322
By Robert Wampler, PhD For more information202/994-7000 or wampler@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., June 23, 2010 - Four decades ago, in response to North Korean military provocations, the U.S. developed contingency plans that included selected use of tactical nuclear weapons…
Briefing Book 321
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington, D.C., June 16, 2010 - U.S. presidents long before President Obama have sought an international fissile material cutoff off treaty but the reasons they have failed remain with us today,…
Briefing Book 320
Washington, D.C., June 13, 2010 - The Washington summit 20 years ago this month between Presidents George H.W. Bush and Mikhail S. Gorbachev brought dramatic realization on the American side of the…
Briefing Book 319
Michael Evans - 202/994-7029 mevans@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., June 11, 2010 – To mark the first-ever criminal conviction in Colombia's infamous Palace of Justice case, the Archive today posts a selection of key declassified documents…
Briefing Book 318
By Malcolm Byrne Malcolm Byrne - 202/994-7000 / mbyrne@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, May 30, 2010 - A highly confidential U.S. overture to Iran in summer 1999 foundered because the intelligence community and FBI believed members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)…
Briefing Book 317
By Svetlana Savranskaya Translated by Anya Melyakova For more information202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., May 25, 2010 - Today the National Security Archive publishes its fifth installment of the diary of Anatoly Chernyaev, the man who was behind some of the most momentous…
Briefing Book 315
By David E. Hoffman For more information, contactDavid E. Hoffman hoffmand@washpost.com 202-334-5553 or seewww.thedeadhandbook.com
Washington, D.C., May 6, 2010 - Internal documents reveal that in the final years of the Cold War the top leadership of the Soviet Union debated the cover-up of their illicit biological weapons…
Briefing Book 314
By David E. Hoffman For more information, contactDavid E. Hoffman hoffmand@washpost.com 202-334-5553 or seewww.thedeadhandbook.com
Washington, D.C., April 29, 2010 - Previously unpublished documents from inside the Kremlin shed new light on how Soviet and American scientists breached the walls of Soviet military secrecy in the…
Briefing Book 313
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Malcolm Byrne (with document advice from William Burr and Tom Blanton)
Washington, D.C., April 14, 2010 - Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin--the former Soviet Ambassador to the United States who served under five Soviet leaders and six U.S. Presidents, and was a long-time…
Briefing Book 312
Edited by Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7116 office - 202/374-7281 cell - peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington, DC, April 10, 2010 - Only five days before a car bomb planted by agents of the Pinochet regime rocked downtown Washington D.C. on September 21, 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger…
Briefing Book 311
Thomas Blanton and William Burr, editors Thomas Blanton, William Burr202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., April 8, 2010 - The new START Treaty signed today in Prague represents "real" but "modest" cuts in strategic nuclear forces comparable to some Cold War alternatives but still higher…
Briefing Book 310
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington, D.C., April 7, 2010 - In a response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the Pentagon claims that "Poodle Blanket" contingency plans from 1961 for a possible confrontation over…
Briefing Book 309
Edited by Carlos Osorio Assisted by Marianna Enamoneta and Miliette Marcos Carlos Osorio - 202/994-7061
Washington, DC, March 30, 2010 - For the first time in Latin America, a judge has sent a former head of state to prison for the crime of an "Attack against the Constitution." In an unprecedented…
Briefing Book 308, FOIA Audit 308
Tom Blanton, National Security Archive Director - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, March 15, 2010 - Despite President Barack Obama's and Attorney General Eric Holder's 2009 memoranda calling for reform in government agencies' administration of the Freedom of…
News 20100312, Rosemary Award 20100312
Tom Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, March 12, 2010 - The Rosemary Award for worst open government performance, named after President Nixon’s secretary who erased 18 Ѕ minutes of a crucial Watergate tape, this year goes…
Briefing Book 307
By Kate Doyle and Jesse Franzblau Research AssistanceSusana Zavala Orozco Kate Doyle - kadoyle@gwu.edu Jesse Franzblau - jblau@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, March 9, 2010 - A Mexican human rights activist who was orphaned in infancy when her parents disappeared at the hands of government forces filed a petition before the Inter-American…
Book By Patrick Tyler
Briefing Book 305
Edited by Matthew Aid with William Burr and Thomas Blanton 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., February 12, 2010 - For the first time, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified substantive information on one of its most secret and sensitive schemes, "Project…
Unredacted blog
Unredacted blog
Briefing Book 306
Edited by Robert Wampler For more information202/994-7000 or wampler@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., February 2, 2010 - Twenty-nine years ago today, less than two weeks after his inauguration, President Ronald Reagan rolled out the welcome mat at the White House for South Korean…
Unredacted blog
Briefing Book 304
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., January 15, 2010 - To refute early 1960s novels and Hollywood films like Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove which raised questions about U.S. control over nuclear weapons, the Air Force…