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Briefing Book 850
Edited by Malcolm Byrne and Michael Evans
Special thanks to Autumn Kladder for help with document selection
Washington, D.C., December 14, 2023 – The National Security Archive is pleased to announce the publication of a major primary document collection on the presidency of Jimmy Carter. The latest in the…
Briefing Book 849
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., December 6, 2023 - Recent U.S. government decisions on the declassification of historical records on nuclear proliferation demonstrate the good, the bad and the ugly in the current…
Briefing Book 848
Edited by Peter Kornbluh, William Burr and Tom Blanton
Washington, D.C., November 29, 2023 - Henry Kissinger’s death today brings new global attention to the long paper trail of secret documents recording his policy deliberations, conversations, and…
Briefing Book 847
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and John Dinges
Washington D.C., November 22, 2023 - “[I]f there has been sufficient reason to open this envelope, I accuse the government of Chile of my death,” wrote DINA agent Michael Townley in March 1978, as…
Briefing Book 846
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., October 26, 2023 - In early August 1977, Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev wrote to President Jimmy Carter to inform him that the Soviet Union had detected a nuclear…
Briefing Book 845
Compiled and edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton
Washington D.C., October 4, 2023 – Thirty years ago in Moscow, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered tanks and airborne troops to shell and storm the “White House,” the Russian Parliament (Supreme…
Briefing Book 844
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
Washington D.C., October 3, 2023 – As a diplomatic gesture to mark the 35th anniversary of the October 5, 1988, Chilean plebiscite that forced General Augusto Pinochet from power, the U.S. State…
Briefing Book 843
Edited by Kate Doyle and
Claire Dorfman
Special thanks to Lauren Harper for contributing research
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2023 - Nine years ago today, 43 Mexican college students were violently abducted and disappeared by police and drug traffickers in the town of Iguala, Guerrero. As the…
Briefing Book 842
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., September 21, 2023 – The Reagan administration rejected an international agreement on humanitarian laws of war—Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Conventions—due to…
Briefing Book 841
Edited by Michael Evans
Washington, D.C., September 19, 2023 – Colombian President Gustavo Petro should comply with the 2014 sentence of the Inter-American Human Rights Court (IACHR) and ask U.S. President Joe Biden to…
Briefing Book 840
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
September 8, 2023, Washington D.C. - “In the Eisenhower period, we would be heroes,” Henry Kissinger told President Richard Nixon several days after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile,…
Briefing Book 839
Edited by Tamara Feinstein
Washington, D.C., August 28, 2023 – On the 20th anniversary of the Peruvian truth commission’s final report, the National Security Archive posts a core collection of declassified U.S. documents…
Briefing Book 838
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
Washington, D.C., August, 25, 2023 - On the morning of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile, the CIA briefed President Nixon that Chilean military officers were “determined to restore…
Briefing Book 837
Edited by Corina Snitar
Washington, D.C., August 11, 2023 – Recently unearthed documents from the Romanian national archives shed new light on the Comintern, the Soviet-led international organization that from 1919-1943 was…
Briefing Book 836
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
Washington, D.C., August 8, 2023 - As the commander in chief of the Chilean army, Gen. René Schneider, lay dying in a hospital after being shot in a CIA-backed coup plot in October 1970, President…
Briefing Book 835
Edited by William Burr
A newly declassified memorandum from the weeks after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki confirmed early reports of fatal radiation disease even as Manhattan Project director General Leslie…
Unredacted blog
The United States will not pay climate reparations to developing countries under any circumstances, Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry stated in his July 13, 2023, testimony …
Unredacted blog
On March 17th of this year, State Department spokesperson Ned Price was asked by Pakistani news media about unconfirmed reports of a U.S. drone strike in the Pakistani village of Zangara, within the…
Briefing Book 834
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., July 18, 2023 – A set of highly secret emergency action plans kept inside the closely guarded “Football” that traveled with the President at all times and that would give the…
Briefing Book 833
Edited by Rachel Santarsiero
Washington, D.C., July 6, 2023 – As the world’s wealthiest countries continue to avoid making serious financial commitments to developing states on the front lines of the climate crisis, declassified…
Unredacted blog
State Department Launches AI Pilot Program for FOIA Processing Federal News Network reports that the State Department is “experimenting with automation” to improve its FOIA work. Of specific interest…
Unredacted blog
Declassification Provisions of the 2024 Intel Authorization Act Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is touting the 2024 Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA), which unanimously passed the Senate Intelligence…
Briefing Book 832
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., June 6, 2023 - U.S. officials and NATO allies feared that international talks meant to strengthen the protection of civilians during conflicts could lead to a ban on the use of…
The First Six Months of Clinton-Russian Relations:
Summits with Yeltsin at Vancouver and Tokyo, 1993
Summits with Yeltsin at Vancouver and Tokyo, 1993
Briefing Book 831
Compiled and edited by Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton
Washington, D.C., June 5, 2023 – Declassified highest-level records from the first six months of the Clinton administration’s relations with the Russian Federation in 1993 reveal a remarkable array…
Briefing Book 830
Translated by Anna Melyakova
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya
Washington D.C., May 25, 2023 - The National Security Archive today marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 102nd birthday with the publication for the first time in English…
Briefing Book 829
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and
William Burr
Washington D.C., May 25, 2023 - As Henry Alfred Kissinger (HAK) reaches 100 years of age, his centennial is generating global coverage of his legacy as a leading statesman, master diplomat, and…
Unredacted blog
The National Security Archive, working with our partners at ProQuest, is publishing a new compilation of documents on U.S. policy toward Iraq. The 2,179 -document collection, Targeting Iraq, Part II…
Unredacted blog
Recent allegations that the Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic group native to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the Northwest region of China, are an “attractive constituency” for terrorist groups like…
Briefing Book 828
Edited by William Burr and Leopoldo Nuti
Washington, D.C., April 20, 2023 - Sixty years ago, during April 1963, the U.S. Air Force took steps to implement the final stage of the secret U.S.-Soviet deal that helped resolve the Cuban Missile…
Briefing Book 827
Edited by Michael Evans
Washington, D.C., April 18, 2023 – A Colombian taxi driver who last month was handed a 36-month prison sentence for his part in secretly delivering cash payments from Chiquita Brands International to…
News
Edited by Kate Doyle and Claire Dorfman
Washington, D.C., April 14, 2023 - Tomás Zerón’s rehabilitation tour has begun.
News
Washington, D.C., April 3, 2023 - Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) today announced that the National Security Archive and its partner, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, are…
Unredacted blog
Archive Analyst William Burr and “The Movement and the Madman” “The Movement and the ‘Madman’” recently premiered on PBS’s American Experience, and features an interview with the Archive’s William…
Briefing Book 826
By William Burr and
Jeffrey P. Kimball
Washington, D.C., March 24, 2023 - On Tuesday, March 28, 2023, PBS’s “American Experience” program premieres “The Movement and the ‘Madman,’” a documentary that tells the story of how the…
News
Washington, D.C., March 23, 2023 - The United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs invited the National Security Archive to testify today about ways to modernize the…
Briefing Book 825
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., March 20, 2023 -The declassified Air Force film shows the crew of a U.S. B-52 bomber reaching its “Positive Control” (“fail safe”) point on the way to its target in the Soviet…
Briefing Book 824
Edited by James E. David and Charles Byvik
Washington, D.C., March 13, 2023 – The 65-year U.S. effort to detect and track objects in space, from the days before Sputnik 1 to today’s much more crowded orbital environment, is the subject of a…
Briefing Book 823
Edited by Kate Doyle and Claire Dorfman
Additional research by
Carlos Osorio
Washington, D.C., March 10, 2023 - Years before 43 young men from the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college were attacked and forcibly disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, the Mexican military had the school…
FOIA Audit
Edited by Lauren Harper and Wendy Valdes
Washington, D.C., March 9, 2023 – The public still cannot submit Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to the CIA or other prominent agencies through the national FOIA portal, FOIA.gov,…
Briefing Book 822
Edited by Cristin Monahan
Washington, D.C., February 28, 2023 - In February 1998, 25 years ago this month, the United States suffered a series of cyber intrusions known as SOLAR SUNRISE that then-Deputy Secretary of Defense…
News
Washington, D.C., February 23, 2023 – A few days after President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would suspend its observation of START, the only U.S.-Russia arms control agreement…
Briefing Book 821
by William Burr & Leopoldo Nuti
Washington, D.C., February 16, 2023 - Harvard professor and future Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger discussed the U.S. withdrawal of Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) from…
Unredacted blog
FOIA Online Sunset is Imminent FOIA Online is set to be decommissioned on September 30 of this year. More than a dozen agencies still actively use the service, raising questions about what they will…
Briefing Book 820
Edited by Svetlana Savranskaya
Washington, D.C., February 7, 2023 – With the Cold War coming to an end and the Soviet Union dissolving, President Bill Clinton was determined not to miss a historic opportunity to help Russia…
Unredacted blog
Public Interest Declassification Board Meets at LBJ Library The Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) recently held a two-day conference at the LBJ presidential library to discuss…
Briefing Book 819
By Svetlana Savranskaya and Tom Blanton
Washington D.C., January 30, 2023 – The George H.W. Bush administration was reluctant to embrace the “relations of deep mutual trust and alliance” proposed by the newly independent Russian…
Unredacted blog
Classified Documents Found at Mike Pence Residence, Prompting NARA to Consider Asking Living Former Presidents and VPs to Search for Classified Records “About a dozen” classified documents have been…
News
By Kate Doyle and Claire Dorfman
Washington, D.C., January 24, 2023 - On Friday, January 20, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights set a new legal precedent for access to human rights information when it ordered the…
Unredacted blog
On January 13 of this year, Hasibullah Ahmadi, head of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior’s counternarcotics department, asserted that drug trafficking from the country has dropped, but admitted this…
News
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Thursday, January 26, 6-8 p.m.
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Unredacted blog
President Biden Does Not Keep Visitor Logs for Private Residence, in Keeping with Trump’s Practice The Biden administration announced this week that it maintains no visitor logs for President Biden’s…
Unredacted blog
DoD May Seek Expanded Authority to Classify Diplomatic Material in New EO on Classified National Security Information The National Security Archive has learned that the Pentagon is seeking…
News
By Tom Blanton and Malcolm Byrne
Washington, D.C., January 9, 2023 – The National Security Archive today celebrates the 90th birthday of our longtime scholarly partner and moral inspiration, Vilém Prečan, with this Web publication…
Unredacted blog
Deadline Extended for Agencies to Transition to Fully Electronic Records The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently issued a joint…