23 August 2013 — williambowles.info
This week, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the CIA-MI6 overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossaddegh, on 19th August 1953, the (US) National Security Archive has released documents confirming the details of the coup and the grubby US-UK involvement.(i)
23 August 2013 — williambowles.info
This week, to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the CIA-MI6 overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossaddegh, on 19th August 1953, the (US) National Security Archive has released documents confirming the details of the coup and the grubby US-UK involvement.(i)
28 November 2011 — Global Research – The National Security Archive – 2011-11-25
Reagan Briefed In Advance on Each Group of Missiles Sold to Iran
Presidential ‘Exposure’ and roles detailed in Special Prosecutor Reports
28 November 2011 — Global Research – The National Security Archive – 2011-11-25
Reagan Briefed In Advance on Each Group of Missiles Sold to Iran
Presidential ‘Exposure’ and roles detailed in Special Prosecutor Reports
8 June 2011 — National Security Archive
Contacto: Kate Doyle – 646/670-8841 kadoyle@gwu.edu
Hoy, el National Security Archive publica en su sitio de web una copia del informe “Del Silencio a la Memoria: Revelaciones del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional”. Además del informe, el Archivo publica una copia del discurso de Kate Doyle (directora del Proyecto de Documentación de Guatemala) que ella dio durante la ceremonia del anuncio de la publicación del informe. La ceremonia se celebró en la Universidad de San Carlos en Guatemala City, Guatemala en el 7 junio 2011.
Today, the National Security Archive publishes a copy of the report “Of Silence to the Memory: Revelations of the Historical File of the National Police”. Besides the report, the File publishes a copy of the speech of Kate Doyle (director of the Project of Documentation of Guatemala) who gave it at the ceremony of the announcement of the publication of the report. The ceremony was celebrated in in the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 7 June 2011.
***An English version of the electronic briefing book will be posted soon.***
See the complete posting on the Archive’s web site.
26 May, 2011 — National Security Archive
Documents from Nixon and Ford Administrations Show U.S. Assistance for French Nuclear Forces Earlier Than Previously Reported
Kissinger Sought to make French “Drool” for Nuclear Aid
29 November, 2010 — Unredacted
The five news organizations that Wikikeaks provided the documents to under embargo did a good job synthesizing and reporting the 251,287 cables leaked by someone with access to that information. That said, document hounds (including historians, IR/polisci people, and concerned citizens) know that to really understand the contents and significance of the records you need to get your hands dirty–perusing them and reading them with your own eyes.
Here is a guide to reading Department of State documents. Here is a good list of common acronyms found in the documents.
Basically what I’m doing is starting at the highest level (cables to or from the SecState or with high clearances) and reading haphazardly, looking for other cables referenced and sometimes using tags.) As of now, only 243 cables are available on the wikileaks site. [update: 278 have now been released] If you find any good ones, leave them in the comments!! Without further ado:
07STATE152317 North Korea shipped ballistic missile parts to Iran via China.
09PARIS1254 ‘The French observed that some in Russia have concluded their interests are served by keeping the west ‘tied down in an Afghanistan quagmire’ and by sustaining the status quo in Iran.
09BAGHDAD1103 ‘IRGC-QF [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Quds Force] leadership took advantage of the vacuum which surrounded the fall of Saddam Hussein and the entry of Coalition Forces into Iraq in 2003, using the opportunity to send operatives to Iraq when little attention was focused on Iran.’
09STATE47326 Washington intrigued by the government of Iran’s decision ‘to remove anti-American slogans and art from Tehran’s buildings.’
10STATE15856 US is concerned a Turkish firm may be selling US-made grenade launchers to Iran.
10STATE17263 ‘In their [Russia’s] analysis, the missile programs of Iran and the DPRK are not sufficiently developed, and their intentions to use missiles against the U.S. or Russia are nonexistent, thus not constituting a ‘threat’ requiring the deployment of missile defenses.’
09MANAMA642 Soft power? ‘King Hamad asked General Petraeus for his help in encouraging U.S. aircraft manufacturers to participate in the inaugural Bahrain Air Show.’
09STATE119085 In from the cold?
09TRIPOLI771 Already widely reported, but ‘SUBJECT: A GLIMPSE INTO LIBYAN LEADER QADHAFI’S ECCENTRICITIES’ is a classic.
Just a smattering, I’ll add more as I come across them (and so can you!)
11 August, 2010 — National Security Archive
Government Officials Since Eisenhower Have Seen Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban as Vital for Curbing Nuclear Proliferation, According to Declassified Documents
State Department Memos Shows Consternation Created by Jimmy Carter’s Offer to Deng Xiaoping to Assist Chinese Underground Testing
For more information, contact:
William Burr – wburr@gwu.edu or 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, August 11, 2010 – The next nuclear policy challenge for the Obama administration, right after Senate action on the New START Treaty, will be Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which President Obama sees as a condition for a world free of nuclear weapons. As he declared in his Hradcany Square speech, “After more than five decades of talks, it is time for the testing of nuclear weapons to finally be banned.” U.S. presidents since Dwight D. Eisenhower have sought, sometimes only rhetorically, a comprehensive test ban of nuclear testing in all environments (underground, atmospheric, underwater and outer space).
Becomes First Latin American President Successfully Prosecuted for Attacking the Constitution
National Security Archive Posts Declassified Evidence Used in Trial
U.S. Documents Implicated Bordaberry in Repression
Washington, DC, March 30, 2010 – For the first time in Latin America, a judge has sent a former head of state to prison for the crime of an “Attack against the Constitution.” In an unprecedented ruling last month in Montevideo, former Uruguayan President Juan María Bordaberry was sentenced to serve 30 years for undermining Uruguay’s constitution through an auto-coup on June 27, 1973, and for being a participant in nine disappearances and two political assassinations committed by the security forces while he was president between 1972 and 1976.
Declassified U.S. documents provided as evidence in the case by the National Security Archive show Bordaberry as justifying his seizure of extra-constitutional powers on June 27, 1973, by telling the U.S. Ambassador that “Uruguay’s democratic traditions and institutions… were themselves the real threat to democracy.” Another document, written within days after the coup, shows that the police were ordered to launch, in coordination with the military, “intelligence gathering and operations of a ‘special’ nature”–references to death squad actions that ensued.
“These declassified U.S. documents,” said Carlos Osorio, who heads the National Security Archive’s Southern Cone project, “helped the Court open the curtain of secrecy on human rights crimes committed during Bordaberry’s reign of power.”
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