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Briefing Book 451
Edited by William Burr and
Jeffrey T. Richelson
Washington, D.C., December 16, 2013 – The Soviet Union assisted the United States in its effort to curb South Africa's nuclear program in August 1977 when Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev…
Book Vojtech Mastny and Zhu Liqun
Briefing Book 451
William Burr or Jeffrey T. Richelson- 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., December 16, 2013 – The Soviet Union assisted the United States in its effort to curb South Africa's nuclear program in August 1977 when Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev…
Briefing Book 450
Edited by Tom Blanton Tom Blanton 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Bay of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
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Briefing Book 449
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton With Anna Melyakova 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, December 11, 2013 – The last Soviet nuclear warheads in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis did not leave the island until December 1, 1962, according to Soviet military documents…
Briefing Book 448
Edited by Kate Doyle Kate Doyle 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, December 4, 2013 – The landmark report on the Guatemalan police archives, From Silence to Memory: Revelations of the AHPN, has been made available in a new English translation issued…
Briefing Book 447
Edited By Tom Blanton and Svetlana Savranskaya with Anna Melyakova Tom Blanton 202/994 7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, November 22, 2013 – The final shipment of highly enriched uranium from former Soviet nuclear warheads to the U.S. on November 14, and President Obama's award of the Presidential Medal…
Briefing Book 446
William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., November 22, 2013 – The arrest of a Pakistani national, Arshed Pervez in July 1987 on charges of illegal nuclear procurement roiled U.S.-Pakistan relations and sharpened divisions…
Unredacted blog
Judge Rejects Chiquita’s Effort to Block Release of Documents on Terror Payments
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
tags: AUC, chiquita, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, terrorism, united self-defense forces…
Briefing Book 445
Edited by Michael Evans and Jesse Franzblau Michael Evans 202/994 7029 or mevans@email.gwu.edu Jesse Franzblau 202/994 7000
Washington, D.C., November 6, 2013 – Four months before the feared Zetas drug cartel kidnapped and murdered 72 migrants in northeastern Mexico, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said that…
Unredacted blog
Briefing Book 444
Edited By John Prados John Prados - 202/994-7000
Washington, D.C., November 1, 2013 – Continued investigation of the presidency of John F. Kennedy further strengthens the view that the origins of U.S. support for the coup which overthrew South…
Briefing Book 443
Washington, D.C., October 29, 2013 – The CIA's history of the U-2 spy plane, declassified this past summer, sparked enormous public attention to the U-2's secret test site at Area 51 in Nevada, but…
Briefing Book 443
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson
Washington, D.C., October 29, 2013 – The CIA's history of the U-2 spy plane, declassified this past summer, sparked enormous public attention to the U-2's secret test site at Area 51 in…
Briefing Book 442
William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., October 7, 2013 – A nuclear accident never produced a nuclear detonation, but according to a new book by Eric Schlosser every nuclear-tipped missile "is an accident waiting to…
Unredacted blog
Briefing Book 441
Edited by Matthew M. Aid and William Burr William Burr 202/994 7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu Matthew M. Aid mmaid@rcn.com
Washington, D.C., September 25, 2013 – During the height of the Vietnam War protest movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the National Security Agency tapped the overseas communications of…
Briefing Book 440
Edited by Kate Doyle Kate Doyle 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., September 24, 2013 – On September 20, a Guatemalan tribunal convicted the former director of the National Police of Guatemala, retired Col. Hйctor Bol de la Cruz, and his…
Briefing Book 439
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
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February 29, 2012
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Briefing Book 437
Edited by Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281 or peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington, D.C., September 11, 2013 – Henry Kissinger urged President Richard Nixon to overthrow the democratically elected Allende government in Chile because his "'model' effect can be insidious…
Briefing Book 436
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., September 4, 2013 – Recent press disclosures about National Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance activities — relying on documents provided by Edward Snowden — have sparked…
Unredacted blog
Briefing Book 435
Edited by Malcolm Byrne Malcolm Byrne 202/994-7043 or mbyrne@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., August 19, 2013 – Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive is today posting recently declassified…
Briefing Book 434
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., August 15, 2013 – On 21 February 1955, Richard M. Bissell, a senior CIA official, wrote a check on an Agency account for $1.25 million dollars and mailed it to the home of Kelly…
Briefing Book 438
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., August 5, 2013 – Today, on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, the National Security Archive posts an update to its 2001…
Briefing Book 433
William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., August 2, 2013 – The United States and Soviet Union conducted underground testing that sometimes produced significant "venting" of radioactive gases and particles which crossed…
Briefing Book 432
William Burr - 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu Avner Cohen - 831/647-6437 or 202/489-6282 (cell); avnerc@miis.edu
Argentine Documents on the Yellowcake Sale
Briefing Book 431
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
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Briefing Book 430
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya Diary excerpt translated by Anna Melyakova and edited by Svetlana Savranskaya Svetlana Savranskaya - 202/994-7000 or svetlana@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., May 25, 2013 – Today the National Security Archive is publishing — for the first time in English — excerpts from the diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev from 1973, along with edits and a…
Briefing Book 429
Edited by Emily Willard Emily Willard 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
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May 9, 2013
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March 19, 2013
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Briefing Book 428
Edited by Nate Jones Assisted by Lauren Harper Nate Jones 202/994-7000 or foiadesk@gwu.edu
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New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis By Robert Beckhusen, Wired, May 16, 2013
The USSR and US Came Closer to Nuclear War Than We Thought…
Unredacted blog
Briefing Book 427
Edited by Nate Jones
Assisted by Lauren Harper
For more information contact:
Nate Jones 202/994-7000 or foiadesk@gwu.edu
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New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis
By Robert Beckhusen, Wired, May 16, 2013
The USSR and US Came Closer to Nuclear War Than We Thought…
Briefing Book 426
Edited by Nate Jones Assisted by Lauren Harper With Document Contributions from Svetlana Savranskaya Nate Jones 202/994-7000 or foiadesk@gwu.edu
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The USSR and US Came Closer to Nuclear War Than We Thought…
Book By Peter Kornbluh
Nueva edición ampliada en el 40 aniversario de la muerte de Salvador Allende.
Briefing Book 425
Edited by Kate Doyle Kate Doyle 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
After weeks of powerful testimony and excruciating procedural wrangling, the trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efraнn Rнos Montt and his intelligence chief Josй Rodrнguez Sбnchez on charges of…
Unredacted blog
by Emily Willard
UPDATE: 7 May 2013, Department of Justice releases less-redacted version of decision. See less-redacted version of decision here. The New York Times is still waiting on a response to…
Sourcebook
The definitive online collection of over 1,000 pages of declassified documents on the 1983 War Scare
Project directed by Nate Jones
Briefing Book 424
Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Jeffrey T. Richelson 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Since at least 1997, the National Security Agency (NSA) has been responsible for developing ways to attack hostile computer networks as part of the growing field of Information Warfare (IW),…
Briefing Book 423
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington, D.C., April 23, 2013 – China was exporting nuclear materials to Third World countries without safeguards beginning in the early 1980s, and may have given Pakistan weapons design…
Briefing Book 422
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., April 12, 2013 – Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who passed away this week, built a surprising mutual-admiration relationship with the Soviet leader Mikhail…
Unredacted blog
Briefing Book 421
Edited by Robert A. Wampler, PhD Robert A. Wampler, PhD 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., April 11, 2013 – For decades, the erratic behavior of North Korea's enigmatic leaders has often masked a mix of symbolic and pragmatic motives, according to declassified documents…
Unredacted blog
News 20130408
Edited by Michael Evans : Michael Evans 202/994-7000 or mevans@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., April 8, 2013 – Chiquita Brands International last week filed a "reverse" Freedom of Information lawsuit to block the release of records to the National Security Archive on the…
Briefing Book 420
Edited by Michael Dobbs Michael Dobbs 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., April 3, 2013 – The U.S. government's Freedom of Information Act reviewers produced four different versions of the same State Department document over a 12-year period, releasing…
News 20130402
Tom Blanton, Director, National Security Archive - 202/994-7000 Nate Jones, Freedom of Information Coordinator - 202/994-7045 nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, April 2, 2013 – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected the Justice Department's "impermissible" "maneuver" that would have kept "FOIA requests bottled up in…
News 20130315
Tom Blanton, Director, National Security Archive - 202/994-7000 Nate Jones, Freedom of Information Coordinator - 202/994-7045 nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, March 15, 2013 – The Department of Justice has earned the dubious distinction of winning the infamous Rosemary Award for the second time in a row, for worst open government…
Rosemary Award
For more information contact:
Tom Blanton, Director, National Security Archive - 202/994-7000
Nate Jones, Freedom of Information Coordinator - 202/994-7045
nsarchiv@gwu.edu
The Department of Justice has earned the dubious distinction of winning the infamous Rosemary Award for the second time in a row, for worst open government performance of any federal agency over the…
News 20130328
Kate Doyle - 202/994-7000 nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, March 28, 2013 – A radio program on the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala in 1982, which featured National Security Archive senior analyst Kate Doyle, won a prestigious George Foster…
Briefing Book 419
Edited by Kate Doyle Kate Doyle 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., March 19, 2013 – The groundbreaking genocide trial of Efraнn Rнos Montt, retired army general and former dictator of Guatemala, opens today with the presentation of the prosecution'…
Briefing Book 418
Edited by Joyce Battle and Malcolm Byrne
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Briefing Book 417, FOIA Audit 417
Tom Blanton/Nate Jones/Lauren Harper 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
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Briefing Book 416
Edited by Carlos Osorio Carlos Osorio 202/994-7000 or cosorio@gwu.edu Peter Kornbluh 202/374-7281 or peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
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Una justicia que trasciende las fronteras
Por Alejandra Dandan, March, 6 2013
STOLEN BABIES: Argentina Convicts Two Military Dictators
July 5, 2012
Kissinger Blocked Demarche on…
Briefing Book 415
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7032
Washington, D.C., March 5, 2013 – The fabled but previously secret State Department intelligence memorandum that predicted, five months in advance, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, has now emerged from…
Briefing Book 414
Edited by Robert A. Wampler, PhD Robert A. Wampler 202/994-7000 or wampler@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., February 28, 2013 – U.S. officials had hopes thirty years ago that a political liberalization and economic reform program China had initiated in Tibet could lead to real…
Unredacted blog
Beijing’s 1980’s Tibetan Thaw – Missed Opportunity or Doomed to Fail?
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
tags: China, Nixon, Tibet
by Bob Wampler
"Police Attention: No distributing any unhealthy thoughts or objects…
Briefing Book 412
Edited by William Burr William Burr - 202/994-7032
The Clinton Administration and the Indian Nuclear Test That Didn't Happen — 1995-1996 Washington, D.C., February 22, 2013 – In the last months of 1995, U.S intelligence agencies detected signs of…
Briefing Book 413
Edited by Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281 or peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington, D.C., February 22, 2013 – Chilean ruler General Augusto Pinochet intended to use violence to annul the October 1988 plebiscite that ended his lengthy military dictatorship, according to…
Briefing Book 411
Edited by Peter Kornbluh Peter Kornbluh - 202/374-7281 or peter.kornbluh@gmail.com
Washington, D.C., January 18, 2013 – The U.S. government has "between five to seven different transition plans" for Cuba, and the USAID-sponsored "Democracy" program aimed at the Castro government is…
Briefing Book 410
Edited by Nate Jones and Lauren Harper with Documents from Jeffrey T. Richelson and Barbara Elias Nate Jones, Freedom of Information Coordinator 202/994-7045 nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Washington, DC, January 17, 2013 – The poster for the blockbuster movie Zero Dark Thirty features black lines of redaction over the title, which unintentionally illustrate the most accurate take-away…