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Briefing Book 692
Edited by Malcolm Byrne
Washington, D.C., December 19, 2019 – For 40 years, since the first year of the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, the United States and Iran have been the bitterest of political…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
Washington, D.C., December 16, 2019 – A US Navy office involved with drone warfare raised a series of concerns in 2017 about Defense Department use of drones sold commercially by the Chinese…
News
Edited by Alexander Neumann
Washington D.C., December 13, 2019 – After several massive multi-agency federal law enforcement investigations, the shutdown of the “Silk Road” online black-market site and its immediate…
Unredacted blog
Rumsfeld Memos Play Key Role in “The Afghanistan Papers” Donald Rumsfeld’s “snowflakes” – memos that the former Secretary of Defense was as fond of sending subordinates as President Trump is of…
Unredacted blog
The National Security Archive, in conjunction with our partners at the scholarly publisher ProQuest, is publishing a new set of documents offering an unprecedented look into United States policy…
News
Edited by Ian Sotnek and Alex Neumann
Washington, D.C., December 6, 2019 – The GridEx Exercises are a series of biennial grid security exercises designed to evaluate the response of the electricity sector to a cyber incident, strengthen…
Briefing Book 691
Edited by Tom Blanton and Svetlana Savranskaya
With research and editorial assistance by Andrei Shenin and Sarah Dunn
Washington D.C., December 5, 2019 – Cooperative threat reduction by the U.S., Ukraine, and the Russian Federation successfully eliminated the world’s third largest nuclear weapons force in the 1990s…
Unredacted blog
by Olivia Mozdzierz New York, November 26, 2019 – Representatives of a community of Mexican ejidatarios (communal landowners) from north-central Mexico met recently with the National Security Archive…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
Washington D.C., November 26, 2019 – In September 2018 the National Security Archive filed a FOIA request with the United States Cyber Command for a 2016 briefing on operational strategy given to the…
Unredacted blog
Glomar Denial Handed Second Loss in the Courts this Month The District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the FBI can’t issue a Glomar response to an ACLU FOIA request…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle and Ian Sotnek
Washington D.C., November 21, 2019 – Hours before a shutdown deadline, President Trump today signed a short-term spending bill that will keep the government open until the end of December 2019. The…
Briefing Book 690
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., November 20, 2019 – In the late 1950s, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles worried about the hit to America’s global political standing if the U.S. stationed nuclear weapons, some…
News
Edited by Kate Doyle
Research assistance: Megan DeTura
Washington, D.C., November 18, 2019 – The Historical Archive of the National Police of Guatemala (AHPN) is in trouble. This unparalleled collection of Guatemalan police records, renowned throughout…
News
Edited by Ian M. Sotnek
Over the past few years surveillance using IMSI-catchers has become a significant issue for law enforcement and counter-intelligence. The International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) serves as the…
News
Edited by Lauren Harper
Washington, D.C., November 11, 2019 – A military judge presiding over the Guantanamo trial of alleged USS Cole bomber Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri cited a cable released to the National Security…
Unredacted blog
Archive, CREW, Historians Sue Pompeo, State Department for violating FRA The National Security Archive, together with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the Society for…
News
by Lauren Harper and Tom Blanton
Washington D.C., November 5, 2019 - The National Security Archive, together with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the Society for Historians of American Foreign…
Briefing Book 689
Edited by Malcolm Byrne
Washington D.C., November 4, 2019 – On November 4, 1979, a group calling itself the Students Following the Line of the Imam stormed the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seized control of the…
Unredacted blog
EPA Tries to Blame Bad FOIA Regulations on Advisory Committee The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to blame a recommendation from the FOIA Federal Advisory Committee for its controversial…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
A May 2019 report by Blake Sobczak at E&E news revealed that a Western power utility company was hit with a denial of service attack on March 5 2019. The report stated that the attack did not…
Briefing Book 688
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2019 – The current crisis with Turkey over Syria has raised questions, yet to be resolved, about the security of 50 U.S. nuclear weapons stored at Incirlik Air Base.…
Unredacted blog
A few war stories and bits of advice before I leave my job as Director of the FOIA Project at the National Security Archive to begin a new role as the FOIA Director for the Washington Post: If the…
Unredacted blog
ISOO’s FY2018 Classification Report to the President The Information Security Oversight Office’s 2018 Report to the President is now online – but contains considerably less information than…
Book By Hope Harrison
News
Edited by Malcolm Byrne
A new documentary film offers fresh historical material and perspectives on the 1953 coup in Iran. COUP 53, directed by award-winning Iranian-born film-maker Taghi Amirani, is an…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
From 1972-1995 the United States Congress maintained the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to provide analysis to lawmakers on issues related to technology. By the time the office was de-funded…
News
by Tom Blanton
Washington D.C., October 4, 2019 — U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson yesterday ordered the White House to preserve all records relating to meetings and phone calls with foreign leaders…
Briefing Book 687
Edited by John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
Washington, DC, October 3, 2019 – When the Soviet Union put nuclear missiles in Cuba nearly 60 years ago, American officials refused to believe that at least one Soviet motivation was the defense of…
News
by Tom Blanton
Washington, D.C., October 2, 2019 – The Justice Department has pledged that the White House will preserve records of President Trump’s conversations with foreign heads of state while a federal judge…
News
by Tom Blanton
Washington D.C., October 1, 2019 – The National Security Archive together with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations…
Unredacted blog
UPDATED BELOW WITH FULLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENT The Department of State has declassified a cable on the November 9, 2011 kidnapping and November 12 rescue of Washington Nationals star catcher…
Unredacted blog
By Megan DeTura Today marks the fifth anniversary of the forced disappearances of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. In a case that has become a rallying cry throughout Mexico and the broader…
Unredacted blog
State Dept. Calls DOD’s FRUS Efforts Negligent and Egregious For the second year in a row, the State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee (HAC) takes the Defense Department to task for its poor…
Briefing Book 686
Edited by William Burr, Avner Cohen, and Richard Wolfson
Washington D.C., September 22, 2019 – An unidentified flash on 22 September 1979 in the far South Atlantic had a “90% plus” probability of being a nuclear test, according to a CIA finding from…
Briefing Book 685
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Santiago Mendoza
Washington D.C., September 20, 2019 — In the aftermath of the September 21, 1976, car-bombing that killed former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt, in…
Unredacted blog
By Michael Martelle In November of 2016 USSTRATCOM authorized USCYBERCOM, then a component command, to begin executing offensive cyber operations against the Islamic State in support of…
Unredacted blog
“A Poignant Moment” With KSM Between Interrogation Sessions The CIA cable’s author called the incident with accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “a poignant moment;” in it, a frog jumped…
Briefing Book 684
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2019 – Seventy years ago, on 9 September 1949, Director of Central Intelligence Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter handed President Harry Truman a carefully worded report of…
Briefing Book 683
Edited by Michael Martelle
Washington D.C., September 5, 2019 - Recently declassified materials from U.S. Cyber Command provide new details about an important component of cyber operations – the targeting process – as well as…
Unredacted blog
Courts Can Force Agencies to Post Records in FOIA Reading Rooms The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that courts can force federal agencies to post records online to their FOIA reading…
Briefing Book 682
Edited by:
Brad Simpson, Founder and Director of the National Security Archive’s Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Connecticut
Varsha Venkatasubramanian, PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Washington, D.C., August 28, 2019 – The U.S. government was aware for months that the Indonesian military had created, and was arming and directing paramilitary militias in East Timor in the leadup…
Briefing Book 681
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya, Sarah Dunn, Brooke Lennox with Alla Yaroshinskaya
Washington, D.C., August 15, 2019 – Documents from the highest levels of the Soviet Union, including notes, protocols and diaries of Politburo sessions in the immediate aftermath of the Chernobyl…
Briefing Book 680
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., August 9, 2019 – Several previously unknown Henry Kissinger memoranda of telephone conversations – or telcons – from October 1973, uncovered by the National Security Archive,…
Unredacted blog
Judge Orders State to Process 5,000 Pages a Month in Khashoggi Case – 4,358 Pages More than Average Monthly Schedule Judge Paul Engelmayer for the Southern District Court of New York has ordered the…
News
Edited by Jonathan Lehrfeld
The Olympic Games are being held in Tokyo, Japan, during the summer of 2020. In light of widespread concerns about a potential cyber threat from Russia, the Cyber Vault is posting a variety of…
Briefing Book 679
By Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton
Washington D.C., August 2, 2019 – The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty negotiated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 not only eliminated an…
News
Edited by Lauren Harper
Washington D.C., August 2, 2019 - The Secret Service has just released nearly 150 heavily-redacted pages concerning a Chinese delegation’s visit to President Trump’s winter White House, Mar-a-…
Unredacted blog
Advisory Panels in Peril? The JASON Defense Advisory Panel, which advises the U.S. government on defense science and technology matters, is the latest advisory panel the Trump administration is…
Unredacted blog
DEA’s Pain Pill Database Released The Drug Enforcement Administration’s controlled substances database – otherwise known as the Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System, or ARCOS – is a…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
First fielded in the 1970s, Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) like the U.S.’s Global Positioning System (GPS), Europe’s Galileo, and Russia’s GLONASS have become critical to modern societies…
Briefing Book 678
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., July 16, 2019 – The latest addition to the award-winning publications series The Digital National Security Archive provides a trove of important historical documentation on global…
Briefing Book 677
Edited by Michael Martelle
After a series of events starting in the late 1980s gradually awakened the US Department of Defense to the seriousness of threats to computer networks, the US military assembled the first joint task…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
In 2013, cybersecurity experts Jason Healey and Karl Grindal released A Fierce Domain, an edited volume covering major "wake-up calls" in cyber from 1986-2012. Thanks to a generous donation by…
Briefing Book 676
Edited by Dr. Robert A. Wampler
Washington, D.C., June 28, 2019 - A long-standing mutual security treaty between Japan and the United States commits each country to undertake significant military and additional obligations for the…
Unredacted blog
Trump and Putin’s G20 Meeting Puts Spotlight on the PRA President Trump will be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Friday at the G20 meetings in Osaka, Japan, and the pressure is on…
Briefing Book 675
Edited by Robert Wampler
Washington, D.C., June 27, 2019 – Recently declassified U.S. documents posted to mark the 60th anniversary year of the Dalai Lama’s flight out of Tibet depict sharp divisions among Chinese…
Unredacted blog
The National Security Archive, working with our partners at ProQuest, is publishing a rich new compilation of documents on nuclear nonproliferation policy during the presidencies of Dwight D.…
Unredacted blog
Proposed CIA Exemption Will Make It Harder for Historians to get Agency Information A provision in the pending intelligence authorization bill would allow the CIA to indefinitely withhold…
Unredacted blog
Emails Released through FOIA Show Special Relationship between Transportation Dept. and State of Kentucky FOIA-released records obtained by American Oversight and provided to Politico illuminate how…
Briefing Book 674
Edited by William Burr
Update for Briefing Book #43 originally posted in April 2001
Washington, D.C., June 11, 2019 – “Launch-on-warning,” a feature of U.S. nuclear warfighting strategy since the late 1970s, has frequently faced intensive criticism because of the high risk of…
Unredacted blog
Year after year, the Department of Justice’s Office of Information Policy (OIP) issues a summary of annual agency FOIA reports that misinterprets FOIA performance across the federal government to the…
News
Edited by William Burr
Today the National Security Archive publishes a special exhibit on the 30th anniversary of the massacre at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, 4 June 1989. To mark an event that decisively…
Briefing Book 673
Edited by Carlos Osorio, Silvia Tandeciarz and Johanna Weech
Washington D.C., May 30, 2019 – On August 20, 1976, Argentine security personnel dynamited the bodies of thirty people – ten women and twenty men – who had been detained by the…
Unredacted blog
Trump Memo “Effectively Amends” EO 13526 to Transfer Limited DNI Authority to AG Barr President Trump recently signed a presidential memo that “effectively amends” Executive Order 13526 on…
News
Update for Guatemala Police Archive under Threat posting
Edited by Kate Doyle
Washington, D.C., May 30, 2019 – The National Security Archive joins our international and Guatemalan colleagues in calling for the protection of the Historical Archive of the National Police (…
Briefing Book 672
Translated by Anna Melyakova, edited by Svetlana Savranskaya
Washington D.C., May 25, 2019 - The National Security Archive marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 98th birthday today with the publication for the first time in English of his…
Unredacted blog
FOIA Shows Sailors Created “Rape List” That CO Failed to Properly Address A FOIA request from Military.com won the release of a 74-page investigation into a “rape list” created by members of the USS…
Unredacted blog
Trump’s Secrecy will “Blast a Huge Crater” in work of Historians if not Checked The Washington Post Editorial Board weighed in on the National Security Archive’s lawsuit against the Trump…
Unredacted blog
A June 16, 2014 CIA “FLASH FYSA [For Your Situational Awareness] email to the Office of the Director of the National Clandestine Service [ODNCS] warned of a “Possible Future Washington Post Article…
News
Edited by Rosemary Tropeano
The U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee convened last April for the first time since August 2017. The two governments agreed that a cyber attack could, in certain circumstances, constitute an…
News
Edited by Tom Blanton and Lauren Harper
Washington, D.C., May 7, 2019 – The National Security Archive today joined Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (…
News
Edited by Lauren Harper and Tom Blanton
Washington, D.C., May 3, 2019 - The National Security Archive, along with 15 other media organizations, filed a “friend of the court” brief on April 29 in the lawsuit Barr v. Redacted…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
Our present understanding of how USCYBERCOM conducts operations in cyberspace comes either through anecdotal examples such as JTF-ARES/OPERATION GLOWING SYMPHONY or through broad doctrine as…
Unredacted blog
FOIA Reporting Shows Serious Problems in Michigan Prisons Indefatigable FOIA reporting from the Detroit Free Press reveals several alarming trends in Michigan’s state-run prisons – a spike in…
Briefing Book 671
Edited by William Burr and Avner Cohen
Washington D.C., May 2, 2019 - During 1963, President John F. Kennedy was preoccupied with issues such as Vietnam, the nuclear test ban negotiations, civil rights protests, and Cuba. It is less…
News
Edited by Rosemary Tropeano
The National Security Agency (NSA) has formally recommended terminating its controversial phone and text surveillance program, according to the Wall Street Journal.[1] The program has been frequently…
Unredacted blog
Exemption 4 Scope Awaits SCOTUS Ruling On Monday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media. The case, which is the first the justices…
News
Edited by Rosemary Tropeano
Washington D.C., April 24, 2019 – The Tallinn Manual 2.0 is the second edition of NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence’s analysis on the application of international law to…
News
Edited by Tom Blanton
Update for Briefing Book #670, originally posted April 18, 2019
Washington D.C., April 22, 2019 - Black blotches mar the surface of the Mueller Report like measles cases tracked on a map of Brooklyn. Some 176 of the 448 pages feature at least one…
Briefing Book 670
Edited by Tom Blanton, Malcolm Byrne, Lauren Harper
Washington D.C., April 18, 2019 – The National Security Archive has published hundreds of examples over the years of “dubious secrets” where U.S. government censors blacked out documents that had…
Unredacted blog
FOIA Request Shows Al-Nashiri Trial Judge Secretly Sought DOJ Position In a remarkable turn of events, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit “threw out every single pre-trial order issued…
Briefing Book 669
Edited by Carlos Osorio and Peter Kornbluh
Washington D.C., April 12, 2019 – In late May 1976, the secret police chieftains of six Southern Cone military regimes gathered at a clandestine summit in Santiago, Chile, to create a “new unit,…
Unredacted blog
Declassification Diplomacy: Trump Administration Turns Over Massive Collection of Intelligence Records on Human Rights and Argentina Today in a diplomatic ceremony hosted by U.S. Archivist David…
Briefing Book 668
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., April 10, 2019 — South Korea’s bid to acquire a nuclear weapons capability posed a complex challenge to the Ford administration during the mid-1970s, according to recently…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
Beginning in 1997 the Department of Defense Information Assurance Technology Analysis Center (IATAC) published quarterly newsletters on information assurance with the stated goal of supporting U.S.…
Unredacted blog
Bicameral, Bipartisan Letter Seeks GAO Review of FOIA Compliance Representatives Elijah Cummings and Jim Jordan were joined by Senators Dianne Feinstein, Patrick Leahy, Chuck Grassley, and…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
The foundations of today’s internet rest on Cold War-era research and development performed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and researchers associated with the Department of Defense’…
Unredacted blog
Archivist Bill Burr Wins Dubious Honor of Oldest Pending FOIA Request The Archive’s latest FOIA Audit showed that the oldest pending FOIA request government-wide is 25-years-old, that’s old…
Unredacted blog
By Svetlana Savranskaya Thirty years ago today, the Soviet Union had its first real taste of democracy—its first competitive multi-candidate elections, which many people in Russia today still…
News
by Carlos Osorio
Washington D.C., March 24, 2019 - On the 43rd anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, the Argentine government of Mauricio Macri has announced that the Trump Administration will…
Unredacted blog
Army Charges $300K for Water Test Results The Army is trying to charge a FOIA requester $300,000 to release the results of water tests at military installations for a dangerous contaminant that is…
Unredacted blog
“How Can You Say That’s Compliance?” This year’s House Committee on Oversight and Reform Sunshine Week hearing was a strong showing of bipartisan support for FOIA and a desire to address the…
Briefing Book 663
Edited by Robert S. Hopkins, III
Updated by Bruce Blair and William Burr
Washington, D.C., March 13, 2019 - Last month’s posting by Robert S. Hopkins on “How the Strategic Air Command Would Have Gone to Nuclear War” provided incredible detail on SAC procedures during…
FOIA Audit
Audit compiled and written by Lauren Harper, Nate Jones, Tom Blanton, and Tena-lesly Reid
Washington, D.C. March 8, 2019 – Five federal agencies have FOIA requests more than a decade old and one, the National Archives and Records Administration, has a FOIA request more than 25 years old,…
Unredacted blog
Congress Strikes Back at Interior Department’s Bad FOIA Regs Representative Elijah Cummings, D-Md, and Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, recently sent a…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
Recent years have seen increased interest in data privacy and answering the question of what sort of data collection, by whom and for what purpose, is legitimate. The U.S.’s Federal Trade Commission…
Briefing Book 667
Edited by John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
Washington, DC, March 4, 2019 – The covert operations of the Central Intelligence Agency are one element of the forward edge of power in U.S. foreign policy. But the CIA is not a lone ranger,…
Unredacted blog
Deloitte Launches FOIA-Processing Software but Improved FOIA Numbers No Guarantee One of FOIA’s perennial head-scratchers is why agency FOIA offices seem able to search for and review only hundreds…
Unredacted blog
By Michael Martelle On February 27th RADM(ret.) Bill Leigher, now the director of DoD Cyber Warfare Programs at Raytheon, compared cyber-attacks to the advent of airpower during an Atlantic Council…
Briefing Book 666
Edited by Nate Jones
Washington, D.C., February 28, 2019 – The National Security Archive today filed a FOIA lawsuit to compel the Defense Intelligence Agency to release documents likely containing a letter from former…
Briefing Book 665
By Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton
Washington D.C., February 27, 2019 – The Soviet Union withdrew its military forces from Afghanistan 30 years ago this month without achieving demilitarization there or the national reconciliation,…
News
by Michael Martelle
A FOIA request by the National Security Archive Cyber Vault has produced the original Operations Order (OPORD) outlining USCYBERCOM support to Operation Inherent Resolve. This document, referenced in…
Briefing Book 664
By Robert A. Wampler, Ph.D.
Washington D.C., February 26, 2019 – Prior U.S. administrations from both political parties wrestled intensively with complex security, economic, and diplomatic challenges in trying to rein…
Briefing Book 662
By Tom Blanton and Nate Jones
Washington D.C., February 22, 2019 – The movie VICE, nominated for eight Academy Awards including the best picture Oscar, shows on screen several documents obtained through the Freedom of Information…
Unredacted blog
For Better or Worse, The Obama Library to Depart From Status Quo The National Archives and Records Administration has released its agreement with the Obama Foundation that outlines how the Foundation…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle and Rosemary Tropeano
In February of 2016 thirty five fraudulent orders were sent over the SWIFT network, a telecommunications system linking financial institutions used to exchange information on transactions, to…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
A Cyber Vault study of social media activity by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) during the violent Charlottesville protests in August 2017 demonstrates how the controversial Russia-based…
Briefing Book 661
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., February 12, 2019 – The incoming Reagan administration strongly supported Japan’s interest in reprocessing nuclear fuel for producing plutonium and chose to pull back from President…
Briefing Book 660
Edited by Malcolm Byrne
Washington, D.C., February 11, 2019 – U.S. intelligence analysts and Tehran-based diplomats struggled to come to grips with the tumult of the Iranian revolution, yet still managed at times to provide…
Unredacted blog
State Dept. Worsens FOIA Reading Room The Department of State has inexplicably made its FOIA reading room significantly less user-friendly. The previous version allowed researchers to sort the…
Briefing Book 659
Edited by John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
Washington, DC, February 7, 2019 – Attorney-General nominee William P. Barr figured prominently in arguments to limit CIA responsibility to provide notification to Congress about covert actions…
News
Edited by Rosemary Tropeano and Michael Martelle
The Cyber Vault has gathered witness testimony and transcripts for hearings held by the 115th Congress during 2018. These documents are reflective of the scope of the legislative challenges and…
Briefing Book 658
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya
Washington, D.C., February 1, 2019 – Two U.S. ambassadors in the late 1980s warned the U.S.
Unredacted blog
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979: Declassified Documents Show Moscow’s Fear of an Afghan Flip President Trump’s claim that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to get rid of…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
Election security has been a pressing issue since the 2016 elections due to concern over foreign interference in the election and possible cybersecurity risks.
According to the U.S. Election…
Briefing Book 657
Edited by Tom Blanton and Svetlana Savranskaya
Washington D.C., January 28, 2019 – President Trump’s claim that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to get rid of terrorists who were coming over the border is false, according to…
News
Edited by Michael Martelle
On January 17, 2019, the Democratic National Committee filed an amendment to their original lawsuit against the Russian Federation, the GRU, Wikileaks, the Trump Campaign, and several…
Unredacted blog
No More Deaths Trials Shed Needed Light on Department of Interior’s Immigration Role Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Wright argued the first of the Trump administration’s three cases against the…
Unredacted blog
Concerning News from CIA’s Historical Review Panel Requires Clarification Dr. Robert Jervis, chair of the CIA’s Historical Review Panel, recently announced in an H-Diplo posting that the panel did…
News
Edited by Rosemary Tropeano and Michael Martelle
On January 15, 2019, the US Defense Intelligence Agency released its latest edition of the China Military Power report. Among other points, the report discussed China’s reformed command-and-control…
Unredacted blog
Our director Tom Blanton recently gave the keynote speech at the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) 40th anniversary event. ISOO, which is part of the National Archives and Records…
Briefing Book 656
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., January 10, 2019 – From the late 1960s until the late 1980s, U.S. government officials worried that Taiwanese leaders might make a “fundamental decision” to develop nuclear weapons…
Unredacted blog
FOIA Shows Benefits of Diversity in Congress A Washington Post analysis found that legislators from underrepresented groups “disproportionately advocate for these communities.” For example, “…
Briefing Book 655
Edited by Rosemary Tropeano
Washington, D.C., January 9, 2019 – More than 20 years ago, in May 1998, seven hackers from the Boston-based “hacker think tank” L0pht Heavy Industries, appeared alongside Dr. Peter…
Unredacted blog
Choice Magazine, the publishing arm of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), has named the Digital National Security Archive an “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2018.…
News
Edited by Lauren Harper
Washington, D.C., January 8, 2019 - The National Security Archive, together with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in…
News
Edited by Malcolm Byrne
Washington, D.C., January 7, 2019 – Choice Magazine, the publishing arm of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), has named the Digital National Security Archive an “…