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News 20111222
Tom Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, December 22, 2011- The new E-Book series by bestselling thriller writer James Grady features the National Security Archive as the scene of a key plot sequence, and also as the…
Briefing Book 368
Michael Evans - 202/994-7029 mevans@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C. , December 16, 2011 - A Colombian army general acquitted today in one of the country's most infamous human rights cases "actively" collaborated with paramilitary death squads…
Briefing Book 367
William Burr - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., December 5, 2011 – India's "peaceful nuclear explosion" on 18 May 1974 caught the United States by surprise in part because the intelligence community had not been looking for signs…
Briefing Book 366
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Erin Maskell Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281 peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington D.C., November 30, 2011 – Thirty-eight years after the military coup in Chile, a Chilean judge has formally indicted the former head of the U.S. Military Group, Captain Ray Davis, and a…
Briefing Book 365
Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281 Malcolm Byrne - 202/994-7043 nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington D.C., November 25, 2011 – President Ronald Reagan was briefed in advance about every weapons shipment in the Iran arms-for-hostages deals in 1985-86, and Vice President George H. W. Bush…
Briefing Book 363
Kate Doyle - 646/670-8841 kadoyle@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., November 22, 2011 - The bodies of two men whose disappearance in 1984 was recorded in the notorious Guatemalan "death squad diary" have been located on a former military base…
Briefing Book 364
Tom Blanton - 202/994-7068 Svetlana Savranskaya - 202/994-7190 nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington D.C., November 22, 2011 - Marking the 20th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Gorbachev Foundation hosted a two-day conference in Moscow on November 10-11, co-organized by…
Briefing Book 362
John Prados - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., October 28, 2011 - CIA director William Colby rebuffed criticisms from senior Agency operators about disclosure of CIA misdeeds by describing the difference between "bad secrets," "…
Book By Robert A. Wampler
Briefing Book 361
William Burr - 202/994-7000
Annex A. Reproduction of DVD Box (front and back) Annex B. Table of Contents Annex C. List of Interviewees
What follows is a subjective report on some highlights of the 4 DVDs with a sometimes…
Briefing Book 360
Michael Evans - 202/994-7029 mevans@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., September 29, 2011 - Twelve years after the assassination of beloved Colombian journalist and political satirist Jaime Garzуn, a newly-declassified State Department cable, published…
Briefing Book 359, Special Exhibit 359
Edited By John Prados John Prados - 202/994-7000
What Were the 11 Missing Words? Enter the National Security Archive’s Reader Contest! Washington, DC, September 16, 2011 - For the first time ever, all three major editions of the Pentagon Papers are…
Briefing Book 358
Barbara Elias - 202/994-7000 belias@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, September 11, 2011 - In October 2001 the U.S. sent a private message to Taliban leader Mullah Omar warning that "every pillar of the Taliban regime will be destroyed," [Document 16]…
Briefing Book 357
By Svetlana Savranskaya and Anna Melyakova Svetlana Savranskaya - 202/994-7000 or by email
Washington D.C., August 19, 2011 -The hardline coup d’etat 20 years ago today in Moscow surprised its plotters with unexpected resistance from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, from Russian…
Briefing Book 356
Rebecca Hamilton - 202/994-7000 www.fightingfordarfur.com hamilton@newamerica.net
Washington, DC, August 17, 2011 - A secret June 25, 2004 Department of State memo entitled “Genocide and Darfur” written by William Taft IV, the legal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell,…
Briefing Book 355
By Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281 or by email
Washington, D.C., August 15, 2011 - In the heat of the battle at the Bay of Pigs, the lead CIA field operative aboard one of the transport boats fired 75mm recoilless rifles and .50-caliber machine…
Briefing Book 354
William Burr - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., August 12, 2011 - Fifty years ago, when leaders of the former East Germany (German Democratic Republic) implemented their dramatic decision to seal off East Berlin from the western…
Briefing Book 353
By Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281 or by email
Washington, D.C., August 1, 2011 - Pursuant to a FOIA lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive on the 50th anniversary of the infamous CIA-led invasion of Cuba, the CIA has released four…
Briefing Book 352
Published jointly with the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., July 27, 2011 - The United States and Great Britain undertook a secret diplomatic campaign in the late 1970s to prevent a major nuclear proliferation threat – Pakistan's attempted…
Briefing Book 351
Compiled by Dan Jenkins and Malcolm Byrne For more information, contactJeffrey Richelson and Matthew Aid (202) 994-7000
Washington, D.C., July 21, 2011 – In 2005, U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring Chinese research into high-power microwave (HPM) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) radiation speculated that Beijing…
Briefing Book 350
Edited By John Prados
Washington, D.C., July 12, 2011 - What were the 11 words the government didn’t want you to see?
Briefing Book 350
Edited By John Prados John Prados - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., July 12, 2011 - What were the 11 words the government didn’t want you to see? The aspect of the June 13 release of the full Pentagon Papers that has received the most attention is…
Briefing Book 349, FOIA Audit 349
ContactTom Blanton/Nate Jones 202.994.7045 foiadesk@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., July 4, 2011 - Forty-five years after President Johnson signed the U.S. Freedom of Information Act into law in 1966, federal agency backlogs of FOIA requests are growing, with the…
Unredacted blog
by Rachel Hatcher
US Embassy staff report that representatives from both the Salvadoran right and left expressed disapproval of possible international investigations into crimes committed during the…
Briefing Book 348
Edited By John Prados John Prados - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, June 13, 2011 - The complete version of the Pentagon Papers released today by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) includes a substantial amount of information not…
Briefing Book 347
Kate Doyle - 646/670-8841 kadoyle@gwu.edu
Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 7, 2011 - This text is a copy of the speech given by Kate Doyle at the ceremony of the presentation of the report, "From Silence to Memory: Revelations of the…
Unredacted blog
Big Victory for Plaintiffs in Chiquita Paramilitary Suit
JUNE 3, 2011
tags: chiquita, Colombia, human rights, paramilitaries
by Michael Evans
The handwritten notes of Chiquita Senior Counsel Robert…
Briefing Book 346
William Burr - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., May 26, 2011 - The U.S. government secretly helped France develop its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, and much earlier than previously realized, according to…
Briefing Book 345
By Svetlana Savranskaya and Anna Melyakova Svetlana Savranskaya - 202/994-7000 or by email
"Anatoly Chernyaev's diary is one of the great internal records of the Gorbachev years, a trove of irreplacable observations about a turning point in history. There is nothing else quite like it,…
Briefing Book 344
Barbara Elias - 202/994-7000 belias@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., May 5, 2011 - As the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, raises fresh questions about U.S.-Pakistan relations, newly released documents show that as early as 1998…
Briefing Book 343
Tom Blanton, Malcolm Byrne, Nate Jones - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., May 2, 2011 - The Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, killed in Pakistan by U.S. special operations forces yesterday, ranked as “one of the most significant financial sponsors of…
Briefing Book 342
By John Prados John Prados - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., April 21, 2011 - The United States Government’s system for the release of classified material into the public domain continues to be riddled with error, ignorance, arbitrary actions…
Briefing Book 341
By Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281 or by email
Washington, D.C., April 14, 2011 - Fifty years after the failed CIA-led assault on Cuba, the National Security Archive today filed a FOIA lawsuit to compel the Agency to release its “Official History…
Briefing Book 340
By Michael Evans Michael Evans - 202/994-7029 or by email
Bogotб, Colombia, April 7, 2011 - Confidential internal memos from Chiquita Brands International reveal that the banana giant benefited from its payments to Colombian paramilitary and guerrilla…
News 20110325
Tom Blanton - 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, March 25, 2011 - Ron Rosenbaum's new book, How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III, praises the National Security Archive's Nuclear Vault as an "astonishing…
Briefing Book 339
ByKate Doyle and Emily Willard Kate Doyle - 646/670-8841 kadoyle@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., March 23, 2011 - Thirty one years ago tomorrow, El Salvador’s Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot and killed by right-wing assassins seeking to silence his message of…
Briefing Book 338, FOIA Audit 338
Tom Blanton / Nate Jones - 202/994-7045 Email - foiadesk@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., March 14, 2011 - The Obama administration is only about halfway toward its promise of improving Freedom of Information responsiveness among federal agencies, according to the new…
Unredacted blog
Unredacted blog
by Emily Willard
The Recovered Documents
Briefing Book 336
William Burr - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., February 19, 2011 - "The Power of Decision" may be the first (and perhaps the only) U.S. government film depicting the Cold War nightmare of a U.S.-Soviet nuclear conflict. The U.S…
Briefing Book 337
ByKate Doyle and Emily Willard Kate Doyle - 646/670-8841 kadoyle@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., February 18, 2011 - Twenty-seven years ago today, Guatemalan labor activist Edgar Fernando Garcнa was shot and kidnapped by government security forces off a street in downtown…
Briefing Book 335
Rebecca Hamilton - 202/994-7000 www.fightingfordarfur.com hamilton@newamerica.net
Washington, DC, February 1, 2011 - The U.S. government’s opposition to the International Criminal Court held up deployments of peacekeeping forces in Sudan and slowed the eventual indictment of…
News 20110128
Kate Doyle - 646/670-8841
Washington, DC, January 28, 2011 - A new documentary film about human rights in Guatemala featuring National Security Archive senior analyst Kate Doyle will have its world premiere at the Sundance…
Briefing Book 334
By Peter Kornbluh and Erin Maskell For more information 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., January 11, 2011 - As the unprecedented trial of Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles begins this week in El Paso, Texas, the National Security Archive today posted a series of CIA…