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Briefing Book 900
Edited by William BurrOriginally posted - August 5, 2005First update - April 27, 2007Second update - August 4, 2015Third update - August 7, 2017Fourth update - August 4, 2020
The first full U.S. report on the results of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 80 years ago this week, made a “conservative estimate” that around 100,000 people had been killed, according to a newly…
Briefing Book 899
Edited by Rachel Santarsiero
Washington, D.C., August 4, 2025 - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin met with longtime fossil fuel advocates Alex Epstein, Ted Ellis, and Marc Marie in a March 2025 meeting to…
News
Edited by Michael Evans
Washington, D.C., July 29, 2025 - In a historic decision, Alvaro Uribe Velez yesterday became the first former president of Colombia to be found guilty of a crime, a landmark ruling that could clear…
Briefing Book 898
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., July 16, 2025 - Early in the morning of 16 July 1945, 80 years ago, the U.S. Manhattan Project staged the first test of a nuclear weapon in the New Mexican desert. It was the first…
Briefing Book 897
Edited by Rachel Santarsiero
Washington, D.C., June 30, 2025 – For over 20 years, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has viewed climate change as a serious national security threat that will create “new and compounded stresses…
Briefing Book 896
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., June 25, 2025 – During August 1976 talks with the Shah of Iran over the sale of U.S. nuclear reactors, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger “made it clear that reprocessing […
Briefing Book 895
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., June 3, 2025 - The Trump administration’s intention to acquire Greenland, including possibly by force, has put a focus on the history of its strategic interest to U.S. policymakers…
Briefing Book 894
Edited by Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi and Luca Trenta
Washington, D.C., May 22, 2025 - Early in the morning of October 7, 1963, the top leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gathered in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence (…
Briefing Book 893
Edited by Claire Dorfman
Washington, D.C., May 19, 2025 – Mexico welcomed CIA espionage activities in Mexico during the Cold War and even initiated some of them, according to recently declassified documents published today…
News
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Briefing Book 892
John Dinges and Peter Kornbluh
Washington D.C. May 7, 2025 – On November 29, 2011, a Chilean judge stunned the world by indicting a retired U.S. Navy captain as an accomplice to the executions of two U.S. citizens in the days…
News
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Briefing Book 891
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., April 22, 2025 – Declassified U.S. intelligence reports from the 1980s and 90s show that, even while the possibility of war between India and Pakistan remained low, the U.S.…
Briefing Book 890
Edited by Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi and Peter Kornbluh
Washington, D.C., April 7, 2025 - Just six months before the 1964 military coup that overthrew the government of João Goulart in Brazil, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Plans Richard…
Briefing Book 889
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Michael Evans
Washington, D.C., March 28, 2025 - Both John F. Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, were briefed by CIA officials on an Agency counterintelligence operation to break into the…
Briefing Book 888
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
Washington D.C., March 19, 2025 - On the day of President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in January 1961, “47 percent of the political officers serving in United States embassies were CAS”—…
News
by The Archive
Washington, D.C., March 12, 2025 – The acting executive secretary of the U.S. Agency for International Development Monday night ordered the destruction of classified records and personnel files,…
Briefing Book 887
Edited by Rachel Santarsiero
Washington, D.C., February 28, 2025 - For 17 years, the U.S. Intelligence Community has refused to declassify one of its first investigations into climate change as a national security threat.
Briefing Book 886
Compiled and edited by Scott Shane
Update - February 14, 2025Washington, D.C., February 14, 2025 - Some 14 years after Anwar al-Awlaki's death in an American drone strike, the Al Qaeda terrorist has become the unlikely subject of a…
Briefing Book 885
Edited by Rachel Santarsiero
Washington, D.C., February 6, 2025 - In the first two weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has begun to scrub critical environmental resources and datasets from federal…
Briefing Book 884
Edited by Peter Kornbluh
Washington, D.C., February 3, 2025 - Continued U.S. control of the Panama Canal “looks like pure colonialism,” Henry Kissinger advised President Gerald Ford during a National Security Council meeting…
Briefing Book 883
Edited by William Burr
Washington, D.C., January 23, 2025 - Today, the National Security Archive publishes newly declassified information on a secret mid-1960s project in which a handful of young physicists at Lawrence…
Briefing Book 882
Edited by Peter Kornbluh and William LeoGrande
Washington, D.C., January 15, 2025 - The late President Jimmy Carter, who was laid to rest last week after a state funeral in Washington, D.C., adamantly believed that the U.S. embargo on Cuba was “a…