Briefing Books
“Briefing Books” are one-stop resources covering a full range of topics in U.S. foreign policy. Containing from 5 to 100+ documents, each briefing book features an introductory essay, individual document descriptions, related photo or video content, plus links for further reading.
Aug 5, 2013 | Briefing Book
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...
Aug 2, 2013 | Briefing Book
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...
Jun 25, 2013 | Briefing Book
Argentine Documents on the Yellowcake Sale
Jun 4, 2013 | Briefing Book
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Reading the North Korea Tea Leaves April 11, 2013
The Central Intelligence Agency's 9/11 File June 19, 2012
The National Security Agency Declassified March 11, 2005
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May 25, 2013 | Briefing Book
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...
May 23, 2013 | Briefing Book
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The Final Battle: Ríos Montt's Counterinsurgency Campaign
May 9, 2013
Indicted for Genocide: Guatemala's Efraín Ríos Montt
March 19, 2013
May 22, 2013 | Briefing Book
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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 By...
May 21, 2013 | Briefing Book
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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
May 16, 2013 | Briefing Book
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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 By...
May 9, 2013 | Briefing Book
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...
Apr 26, 2013 | Briefing Book
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),...
Apr 23, 2013 | Briefing Book
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...
Apr 12, 2013 | Briefing Book
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...
Apr 11, 2013 | Briefing Book
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...
Apr 3, 2013 | Briefing Book
Washington, D.C., April 3, 2013 – The U.S.
Mar 19, 2013 | Briefing Book
Archive Electronic Briefing Books Cited in This Posting
THE IRAQ WAR -- PART II: Was There Even a Decision?
October 1, 2010
THE IRAQ WAR -- PART I: The U.S. Prepares for Conflict, 2001
September 22,...
Mar 19, 2013 | Briefing Book
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'...
Mar 13, 2013 | Briefing Book
IN THE NEWS
Agencies lag on transparency, report says
By Josh Hicks, The Washington Post, December 4, 2012
Federal Agencies Are Failing to Uphold Obama's Stated Commitment to Transparency
By Rebecca...
Mar 8, 2013 | Briefing Book
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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...
Mar 5, 2013 | Briefing Book
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...