National Security Archive
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NSA: Did Nixon Even Read the CIA’s Daily Briefs?
President Richard Nixon may never have even read the President’s Daily Briefs partially declassified and released by the CIA with great fanfare on August 24, 2016. The CIA’s claim that the PDBs were “the primary vehicle for summarizing the day-to-day sensitive intelligence and analysis … for the White House” is partly true, but Nixon’s prejudices… Continue reading
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NSA: CIA Cover-Up on Chile
Forty-three years after the U.S.-supported military coup in Chile, the Central Intelligence Agency continues to withhold information on what it knew about planning for the putsch, and what intelligence it shared with President Richard Nixon, according to redacted documents posted today by the National Security Archive. Continue reading
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NSA: U.S. Policy in Argentina Declassified
The Obama Administration today released what it called “the first tranche” of declassified documents on repression in Argentina, fulfilling a commitment to open long-secret U.S. intelligence archives made by President Obama when he visited Buenos Aires on March 24, 2016, on the 40th anniversary of the military coup. Continue reading
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NSA: Bikini A-Bomb Tests July 1946
Underwater Atomic Blast Contaminated Test Ships Making Them “Radioactive Stoves” Declassified Documents, Films and Photographs Depict Tests “Able” and “Baker” and Removal of Bikinians Continue reading
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Historical Documents Withheld Under FOIA’s Sprawling B5 Exemption Could be Freed
Historical documents – like the CIA’s history of the Bay of Pigs invasion — will no longer be able to be hidden under FOIA’s B5 exemption if the President signs FOIA reform passed today by Congress. The bill (S. 337) was introduced by Senators John Cornyn, Chuck Grassley, and Patrick Leahy, in the Senate, and… Continue reading
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FOIA Commands Headlines as Law Approaches 50th Anniversary
Today the National Security Archive celebrates the Freedom of Information Act’s upcoming 50th birthday by highlighting 50 of the year’s biggest news stories made possible by FOIA. The diverse front-page news shows how FOIA can impact human rights, government accountability, and even what you eat. Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Operation Condor Verdict: GUILTY!
Washington D.C., May 27, 2016 – As a federal tribunal in Buenos Aires announced guilty verdicts in the historic prosecution of eighteen Argentine military officers for participating in the coordinated, cross-border system of repression known as “Operation Condor,” the National Security Archive today hailed the ruling as a “major milestone for the principle of human… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary – 1976
Marking the 95th birthday of one of glasnost’s true champions, the posting provides an insider’s view of the workings of the Soviet government and its leadership, and of the emerging challenges posed by Eurocommunism and by human rights in the wake of the Helsinki Accords. Continue reading
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Will China Help Pakistan Get the Bomb?
Recently declassified State Department intelligence reports – posted today by the National Security Archive – illuminate a range of important questions about nuclear weapons in world politics during the 1950s and 1960s, including whether new nuclear weapons states would raise the risks of nuclear proliferation. Continue reading
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National Security Archive Launches Cyber Vault Web Site
30 March 2016 — National Security Archive New Resource Will Acquire and Publish Primary Documents on All Aspects of Cyber Activity National Security Archive Alert View the posting Washington, D.C., March 30, 2016 – The National Security Archive is pleased to announce the launch of its new Cyber Vault project web site. Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Obama Brings ‘Declassified Diplomacy’ To Argentina
Washington, March 18, 2016 – As President Obama prepares to go to Argentina next week on the 40th anniversary of the military coup, the National Security Archive hailed his decision to declassify hundreds of still secret CIA and Defense Department records on the repression during the military dictatorship. The documents, whose release the Archive’s Carlos… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: The Gorbachev File – British and CIA Assessments, Presidential Letters and Summit Conversations Illuminate Perestroika and the End of the Cold War
Marking the 85th birthday of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the National Security Archive at George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org) today posted a series of previously classified British and American documents containing Western assessments of Gorbachev starting before he took office in March 1985, and continuing through the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Continue reading
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Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report in 1975; Removed Section on CIA Assassination Plots
The Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities, over the objections of senior Commission staff, according to internal White House and Commission documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University. The changes included removal of an entire… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: The United States and Cyberspace: Military Organization, Policies, and Activities
21 January 2016 — National Security Archive The United States and Cyberspace: Military Organization, Policies, and Activities National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 539 Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson Posted – January 20, 2016 For more information contact: The National Security Archive 202/944-7000, nsarchiv@gwu.edu Washington, DC, January 20, 2016 — U.S. military activities in cyberspace Continue reading
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National Security Archive: U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
December 22, 2015 – The SAC [Strategic Air Command] Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, produced in June 1956 and published today for the first time by the National Security Archive www.nsarchive.org, provides the most comprehensive and detailed list of nuclear targets and target systems that has ever been declassified. As far as can be… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: Obama’s Back Channel to Cuba: Events Leading to Historic Breakthrough Revealed in Updated Book
18 December 2015 — National Security Archive Obama’s Back Channel to Cuba: Events Leading to Historic Breakthrough Revealed in Updated Book Award-winning Back Channel to Cuba Published in Spanish National Security Archive News Alert Edited by Peter Kornbluh For more information, contact: Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000, peter.kornbluh@gmail.com Washington, DC, December 18, 2015 – On the first Continue reading
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National Security Archive: The Clinton White House and Climate Change: The Struggle to Restore U.S. Leadership
11 December 2015 — National Security Archive The Clinton White House and Climate Change: The Struggle to Restore U.S. Leadership Early U.S. Optimism Frustrated by Disputes over Greenhouse Gas Goals, Role of Developed and Developing Countries, Other Enduring Challenges High-Level Documents Track Internal Debates and Public Disappointments, Prefiguring the Road to Paris 2015 National Security Continue reading
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National Security Archive 2 December 2015: U.S. Climate Change Policy in the 1980s
Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush actively promoted measures to combat climate change, with Reagan in 1987 overruling objections within his own Cabinet to a major proposed treaty to protect the ozone layer, according to recently declassified records posted today by the George Washington University-based National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org). As world leaders, including President… Continue reading
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National Security Archive: DIA Declassified: A Sourcebook
The Defense Intelligence Agency, established in 1961, is one of the United States government’s largest intelligence organizations – employing 17,000 individuals, including thousands stationed overseas. Its 2013 fiscal year budget request was for $3.15 billion. Yet, the DIA is also one of the more secretive agencies in the U.S. intelligence community, regularly denying access to… Continue reading
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