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The CIA's Vietnam Histories
[Legacy Posting]… of CIA's role during the high years of the war and the crisis of the final evacuation from Saigon. Published in … at the time of the 1963 coup but during a Saigon political crisis in the spring of 1955 [p.75]. By October 1958, before … 84-86]. By 1969 the CIA worried that political crisis might lead Thieu—as Ngo Dinh Nhu had once done—to …
Previously Classified Interviews with Former Soviet Officials Reveal U.S. Strategic Intelligence Failure Over Decades
[Legacy Posting]… mislead…U.S. decision makers in the event of an extreme crisis." For example, the authors observed that the Soviet … left open the possibility of U.S. action during a crisis that could invite a Soviet preemptive response and a … to the Soviets. They understood the U.S. insistence on crisis stability but they felt they had to keep developing …
Thirtieth Anniversary of NATO's Dual-Track Decision
[Legacy Posting]… Headlines The Road to the Euromissiles Crisis and the End of the Cold War Edited By Edited by … of East-West relations and triggered the "Euromissiles crisis," involving anti-nuclear campaigns and mass …
The Air Force versus Hollywood
[Legacy Posting]… and its tight control over nuclear weapons. During the crisis years of the early 1960s, when U.S.-Soviet relations … Air Force nuclear-related activities during the crisis years of the Cold War. They are: "Project Headstart" … written Fail-Safe, published in 1962, about a U.S.-Soviet crisis caused by the accidental transmittal of attack orders …
In Memoriam: Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin (1919-2010)
[Legacy Posting]… a key role at major turning points like the Cuban Missile Crisis, which flared later that year and became the first … James G. Blight and janet M. Lang) on the Cuban Missile Crisis (starting in 1988), followed by a project (in the …
Eleven Possibilities for Pentagon Papers' "11 Words"
[Legacy Posting]… STRIKES (IV. C. 9 (a), p. 63): During the Saigon political crisis of January 1965, in which General Nguyen Khanh made … Pentagon Papers analyst notes that, “In the midst of the crisis General Westmoreland obtained his first authority to … role in Vietnam. At the height of a Saigon political crisis in the spring of 1955, the investment sunk into the …
Operation Desert Storm: Ten Years Later
[Legacy Posting]… four principles that would guide U.S. policy during the crisis--including the "immediate, complete, and unconditional … of combat operations and key assessments made during the crisis." It includes both a chronological account of events …
Dubious Secrets
[Legacy Posting]… that John F. Kennedy "traded" as part of the Cuban missile crisis settlement. Although an open secret, official secrecy … One of the most sensitive features of the Cuban missile crisis was the Kennedy-Khrushchev secret trade of Soviet … Kennedy came close to hinting at it in his memoir of the crisis, Thirteen Days. Nevertheless, the facts of the trade …
Dubious Secrets
[Legacy Posting]… February 21, 2014 Dubious Secrets of the Cuban Missile Crisis Defense Department Deletes Khrushchev's Public … Jupiter Missiles in Turkey 50-Year-Old Document on the Crisis Released in Glaringly Different Versions The …
… LBJ's Personal Role in Decision-Making during the Crisis; National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book … ago today. Three weeks later, he lamented both that the crisis had cost American lives and that it had turned out … along with other information Johnson received during the crisis, turned out to be erroneous – a possibility LBJ …
The Rwandan Refugee Crisis: Before the Genocide
[Legacy Posting]… The Rwandan Refugee Crisis: Before the Genocide Link … by the international community to address the refugee crisis became enmeshed in political in-fighting inside the …
Tiananmen at 25 Years
[Legacy Posting]… implies may contribute, along with other factors, to a "crisis of legitimacy" for the Communist Party. Document 4: Cable from DIA Headquarters to [excised], "Crisis in Beijing: ((Deng)) Xiaoping Reportedly Dead; … going into detail about the day-to-day unfolding of the crisis. The authors offer assessments of why martial law was …
Studies by Once Top Secret Government Entity Portrayed Terrible Costs of Nuclear War
[Legacy Posting]… 2014 – On the morning of 20 July 1961, while the Berlin Crisis was simmering, President John F. Kennedy and the … year, policymakers asked the NESC to look more closely at crisis management issues. A report in late 1963 focused on …
The Kissinger Telcons: The Dobrynin File
[Legacy Posting]… in the Middle East raised the risk of the East-West crisis that both Dobrynin and Kissinger had worked hard to … informs Dobrynin confidentially about a "major domestic crisis" [resignation of Spiro Agnew] and suggests that there …
The 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War Part II
[Legacy Posting]… Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis By Robert Beckhusen, Wired, May 16, 2013 The USSR and … to General Richard G. Stilwell, "bringing a coalition from crisis to war is demanding. We must continue to practice …
The Kissinger Telcons
[Legacy Posting]… by the Watergate scandal and this latest political crisis came only days into the Middle East war. Apparently … Middle East, the government budget, the Nigerian crisis, and a Nixon foreign policy statement. As with most of … base at Cienfuegos, Cuba caused a mini-U.S-Soviet crisis in the fall of 1970. A developing crisis in Jordan …
Did NATO Win the Cold War?
[Legacy Posting]… on Soviet decision-making during the 1968 Czechoslovak crisis were published by the National Security Archive in the … its reluctance to intervene militarily in the Polish crisis were published in Moscow ("Dokumenty `Komissii … defensive to offensive in 1961 in the course of the Berlin crisis 1958-61 as Khrushchev prepared to violate the Allied …
The Nixon Administration and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1972-1974
[Legacy Posting]… was going to test emerged in the wake of the South Asian crisis, when the Nixon White House tilted toward Pakistan, … low priority by suggesting that if New Delhi ever faced a crisis with Beijing it could not count on Washington for … Minister Gandhi's intentions during the recent South Asian crisis and whose cover was subsequently blown through press …
… and raising pressures for launch-on-warning in a crisis. Adding to the confusion was the fact that … exercise had not given the President more options for crisis-confrontation situations [see Document 1 below] led … Employment Policy to provide guidance for targeting in a crisis [see Document 21] Yet the ink had hardly dried on …
Reconnaissance Flights and Sino-American Relations
[Legacy Posting]… regularly operated from Taiwan since the 1958 U.S.-China crisis over the Taiwan Strait. Further, the new policy … PRC ambassadors to Poland began during the Taiwan Straits crisis of 1958 and continued intermittenly through early …
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