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President's Daily Briefs from Kennedy and Johnson Finally Released (Eight Years After Archive, Professor Larry Berman Lawsuit)
Sep 16, 2015 | Briefing Book
Washington, D.C., September 16, 2015 - Today the CIA and the LBJ Library are releasing online a collection of 2,500 declassified President’s Daily Briefs (PDBs) from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
The Anwar al-Awlaki File
Sep 15, 2015 | Briefing Book
Related Materials The Lessons of Anwar al-Awlaki Four years after the United States assassinated the radical cleric in a drone strike, his influence on jihadists is greater than ever. Was there a better way to stop him? The New York Times Magazine, August 27, 2015   About the Book: "Scott Shane has done a masterful job of fleshing out the missing link in the evolution of Al Qaeda."  Lawrence Wright
Overhead Imagery: The U.S. Target
Aug 24, 2015 | Briefing Book
Related links NASA's Secret Relationships with U.S. Defense and Intelligence Agencies April 10, 2015 U.S. Reconnaissance Satellites: Domestic Targets April 11, 2008 U.S. Satellite Imagery, 1960-1999 April 14, 1999 FBI spy plane zeroes in on Dearborn area The Detroit News August 5, 2015   Bookmark and Share  
Washington Post Op-Ed Highlights Dubious Secrets
Aug 1, 2015 | Briefing Book
The Washington Post article "America classifies way too much information - and we are all less safe for it" By Tom Blanton July 31 at 8:06 PM Tom Blanton is director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University. Warning: If you hold a security clearance, reading this column could expose you to information that potentially violates your security agreement. Reading this column will certainly expose you to information that is currently classified by some securocrats, though not by others.
White House Efforts to Blunt 1975 Church Committee Investigation into CIA Abuses Foreshadowed Executive-Congressional Battles after 9/11
Jul 20, 2015 | Briefing Book
Washington, D.C., July 20, 2015 - Forty years ago this year, Congress’s first serious inquiry into CIA abuses faced many of the same political and bureaucratic obstructions as Senate investigators have confronted in assessing Intelligence Community performance since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
New Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony Released!
Jul 14, 2015 | News
Washington, D.C., July 15, 2015 - The newly released grand jury testimony by Ethel Rosenberg's brother David Greenglass suggests he committed perjury on the witness stand in the Rosenberg spy trial, according to experts who analyzed the documents released today and posted by the National Security Archive.
The Pentagon's Spies
Jul 6, 2015 | Briefing Book
Related Postings Torture Report Finally Released December 9, 2014 The Pentagon’s Counterspies September 17, 2007 The Interrogation Documents July 13, 2004   More Archive Resources on U.S. Intelligence: U.S. Intelligence Project Operation Desert Storm: Ten Years After The NRO Declassified The National Security Agency Declassified U.S. Satellite Imagery, 1960-1999 The US Intelligence Community By Jeffrey T. Richelson The US Intelligence Community By Jeffrey T. Richelson  
The Gas Centrifuge Secret: Origins of a U.S. Policy of Nuclear Denial, 1954-1960
Jun 29, 2015 | Briefing Book
Washington, D.C., June 29, 2015 – Long before Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities – based on gas centrifuge technology – became the center of international negotiations, the U.S. tried to deny that same technology to any country that sought it. In 1954, Washington prohibited a company in occupied Germany from selling gas centrifuges to Brazil, according to declassified documents published today for the first time by the National Security Archive and the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP).
The National Security Archive and Historical Associations Win Lawsuit for David Greenglass Testimony
May 19, 2015 | News
Washington, D.C., May 19, 2015 - The National Security Archive together with leading U.S. historical associations today won a petition for the release of key remaining grand jury records from the prosecution of accused spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were indicted in 1951, convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union, and executed in 1953. In today's ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Alvin K.
LBJ Regretted Ordering U.S. Troops into Dominican Republic in 1965, White House Tapes Confirm; Yet He Insisted, "I'd do the same thing right this second."
Apr 28, 2015 | Briefing Book
Washington, D.C., April 28, 2015 – President Lyndon Johnson regretted sending U.S. troops into the Dominican Republic in 1965, telling aides less than a month later, "I don't want to be an intervenor," according to new transcripts of White House tapes published today (along with the tapes themselves) for the first time by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org). Johnson ordered U.S. Marines into Santo Domingo 50 years ago today.

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