12 February 2019 — National Security Archive
Category: National Security Archive
What the CIA Tells Congress (Or Doesn’t) about Covert Operations:The Barr/Cheney/Bush Turning Point for CIA Notifications to the Senate
7 February 2019 — National Security Archive
William P. Barr Defended Expanded Presidential Authority and Limiting Notification of Congress about Certain Covert Operations during Iran-Contra Affair
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 659
A New Phase in the Great Game: U.S., Soviets, India, Pakistan vied to shape a new Afghanistan in late 1980s
1 February 2019 — National Security Archive
U.S. Ambassadors Dean and Raphel warned Washington unconditional support to Pakistan and fundamentalist factions of mujahedin was destabilizing the region
Reagan administration supported India’s active role in connection with Soviet withdrawal, but changed position when Delhi tried to keep extreme fundamentalists from coming to power
Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program was major Indian concern in connection with U.S. aid to Islamabad; New Delhi and Washington consulted closely on arms control, cables show
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NSA: Cybersecurity: When Hackers Went to the Hill — Revisiting the L0pht Hearings of 1998
9 January 2019 — National Security Archive
Landmark Senate Hearings Exposed Risks and Threats That Are Still Being Confronted
Declassified Records Offer Roadmap to Often Incomplete U.S. Government and Industry Response
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 655
NATO’s Original Purpose: Double Containment of the Soviet Union and “Resurgent” Germany
11 December 2018 — National Security Archive
French Told U.S. that West Germany Could Join NATO as Long as There Was “No Independent Wehrmacht”
State Department Intelligence Saw NATO as a “Place” to Help West Germany “Satisfy its Reasonable Aspirations and Contain any Potential Unreasonable Ones”
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 652
Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush at Governors Island in 1988
7 December 2018 — National Security Archive
Previously Secret Documents from Soviet and U.S. Files on the 1988 Summit in New York, 30 Years Later
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 651
NSA: Tommy Thompson The Kremlinologist
November 19 2018 — National Security Archive
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 648
Washington D.C., November 19, 2018 – Today, the National Security Archive is publishing a set of documents to commemorate the life and achievements of long-time diplomat and presidential adviser Llewellyn Thompson and highlight the publication of a biography of him written by his daughters, Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson, The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E. Thompson, America’s Man in Cold War Moscow (Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs, 2018). The posting includes never-before-published translations of Russian memcons with Khrushchev and Thompson’s cables from Moscow.
NSA: The Soviet Side of the 1983 War Scare
6 November 2018 — National Security Archive
Politburo Member Warned that NATO Exercise Could Have Masked a First Strike
Soviet Documents Include 1981 KGB Orders and 1984 Military Analysis of Able Archer 83
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 647
The Clinton-Yeltsin Relationship in Their Own Words
2 October 2018 — National Security Archive
Clinton Presidential Library Releases Memcons and Telcons of the 1990s
“We’ll build the partnership on the basis of our friendship, yours and mine, and we’ll do so for the sake of world peace”
“I understand your point Bill, and I will act as you suggest I should, especially since this is part of past practice established between you and me, and it has never failed us in the past” (Yeltsin to Clinton, September 12, 1998)
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 640
NSA: New – Cyber Glossary
September 2018 — National Security Archive
Washington D.C., September 19, 2018 – The National Security Archive’s Cyber Vault today presents a new resource for the cybersecurity community, journalists, students, and the general public – a detailed glossary of terms.
U.S. Nuclear War Plan Option Sought Destruction of China and Soviet Union as “Viable” Societies
15 August 2018 — National Security Archive
Pre-delegation Instructions Excluded Yugoslavia from Attack on “Sino-Soviet” Nations
The SIOP Revisited
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Excessive U.S. sanctions could push Iran “over the brink”: UAE official to U.S. in 1995
8 August 2018 — National Security Archive
Allies warned Clinton escalating sanctions could “pose risks for the entire region”
Declassified lessons on difficulties of implementing effective measures toward Iran
