7 December 2018 — National Security Archive
Category: National Security Archive
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
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 638 Continue reading
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
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 635
Gina Haspel CIA Torture Cables Declassified
10 August 2018 — National Security Archive
National Security Archive Wins FOIA Lawsuit for Thailand Black Site Reports
Haspel described extended sessions of physical violence and waterboarding; CIA cables detail contract psychologists Mitchell and Jessen working for Haspel
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 636
NSA: CyberWar Map
6 June 2018 — National Security Archive
New Feature of Cyber Vault Project
Washington D.C., June 6, 2018 – The National Security Archive’s Cyber Vault Project announces the launch of the CyberWar Map. An interactive resource, it is both a visualization of state-sponsored cyberattacks and an index of documents in the Archive’s Cyber Vault relevant to the subject.
Oliver North’s Checkered Iran-Contra Record
16 May 2018 — National Security Archive
Pattern of Deception and Questionable Judgment Highlighted by Declassified Documents
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 628
National Security Archive: The Guatemala Genocide Ruling, Five Years Later
10 May 2018 — National Security Archive
U.S. policy and the dictator, General Efraín Ríos Montt – “a man of great personal integrity and commitment”
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 627 Continue reading
The CIA Black Sites Program and the Gina Haspel Nomination
10 May 2018 — National Security Archive
