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2005/02/10
9/11
Commission Staff Report on FAA Failings Published on Web
Document
Updates Previous Archive Posting on Censorship of Aviation Warnings
Leading up to 9/11
2005/02/10
Bush
Administration's First Memo on al-Qaeda Declassified
Document
Central to Clarke-Rice Dispute on Bush Terrorism Policy Pre-9/11
2005/02/04
The
CIA and Nazi War Criminals
National
Security Archive Posts Secret CIA History Released Under Nazi War
Crimes Disclosure Act
2005/01/21
Public
Interest in Hidden CIA Operational Records Is High
National
Security Archive Files Comments on CIA's Decennial Review of Operational
Files
2004/12/23
Professor
Sues CIA for President's Daily Briefs
Vietnam
Expert Seeks Historic PDBs from Johnson Years; Challenges CIA Blanket
Policy of Non-Release
2004/12/21
New
Documentary Reveals Secret U.S., Chinese Diplomacy Behind Nixon's
Trip
Chinese
Marshal Received Top Secret Intelligence Briefing from Kissinger
in 1972
2004/12/17
From
Director of Central Intelligence to Director of National Intelligence
2004/12/14
The
Spy Satellite So Stealthy that the Senate Couldn't Kill It
Secret
Program First Described in Book by Archive Senior Fellow
2004/12/14
The
Case Against Pinochet
Ex-Dictator
Indicted for Condor Crimes
2004/11/30
Archive joins library and public interest
groups supporting access to special interests in Cheney's energy
task force
The
National Security Archive files an amici curiae brief with
the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit
2004/11/23
Veto Battle 30 Years Ago
Set Freedom of Information Norms
Scalia,
Rumsfeld, Cheney Opposed Open Government Bill Congress Overrode
President Ford's Veto of Court Review
2004/11/17
The
Velvet Revolution Declassified
Inaugural
Volume of the New Václav Havel Library Publishes
State Department Cables from Prague 1989
2004/10/29
Pentagon
Censors Chain of Command on Abu Ghraib
Taguba
Report Named Names of Abusers and Commanders
2004/10/27
"The
Master of the Game"
Paul
H. Nitze and U.S. Cold War Strategy from Truman to Reagan
2004/10/20
Archive Sues
CIA for Speedy Review of Key Iraq Document
CIA
Determines that Document Did Not Concern a Matter of Public Urgency
2004/10/15
Archive
Calls on CIA and Congress to Address Loophole Shielding CIA Records
From the Freedom of Information Act
20th
anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency Information Act of
1984
2004/10/14
Government
Censors Aviation Warnings Leading up to 9/11
New
"Sensitive Security Information" Claim Blacks Out Titles
of Alerts
2004/10/04
Professor
Sues Pentagon to Make Public Honor Guard Photos From Dover Air Base
Challenges
1991 Policy to Censor Images of War Casualties' Return
2004/10/01
The
Kissinger State Department Telcons
Telcons Show Kissinger Opposed Human Rights Diplomacy;
Secretary of State Tapped Own Phone Calls
2004/09/25
Chile 1964: CIA Covert Support
in Frei Election Detailed
Operational and Policy Records Released for First Time
2004/09/11
The Taliban File
Part IV
Mullah Omar Called Washington in 1998, New Documents Show
2004/08/27
Kissinger to Argentine
Generals in 1976: "If there are things that have to be done,
you should do them quickly"
Newly declassified document shows Secretary of State gave strong
support early on to the military junta
2004/08/04
The Gulf of Tonkin
Incident, 40 Years Later
Flawed Intelligence and the Decision for War in Vietnam
2004/08/02
U.S. Listed Colombian
President Uribe Among "Important Colombian Narco-Traffickers
in 1991"
Then-Senator "Dedicated to Collaboration with the Medellín
Cartel at High Government Levels"
2004/07/13
The Creation of
SIOP-62
More Evidence on the Origins of Overkill
2004/07/09
CIA
Whites Out Controversial Estimate on Iraq Weapons
Main Subject of Today's Senate Intelligence Report
Remains Largely Secret
2004/07/09
Indonesia's 1969
Takeover of West Papua Not by "Free Choice"
Document Release Marks 35th Anniversary of Controversial
Vote and Annexation
2004/06/24
Supreme Court Refuses to Approve
the Immunity from Discovery Sought by Vice President Cheney
Remands Case on Energy Task Force to
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
2004/06/23
The Interrogation
Documents
Debating U.S. Policy and Methods
2004/06/22
Mohammad Mosaddeq
and the 1953 Coup in Iran
New Volume Reexamines a Seminal Event in Modern Middle
Eastern History
2004/06/17
Art
Before Power
New Jenny Holzer Exhibition Showcases Archive's Documents
2004/06/10
Lifting
of Pinochet's Immunity Renews Focus on Operation Condor
Documents Indicate 1976 Terror Attack in Washington Might
Have Been Prevented
2004/05/31
After the Revolution
Lázaro Cárdenas and the Movimiento de Liberación
Nacional
2004/05/26
The
Kissinger Telcons
Archive Celebrates
Release of Previously Sequestered Telephone Records
2004/05/12
Prisoner
Abuse: Patterns from the Past
Cold
War U.S. Interrogation Manuals Counseled "Coercive
Techniques"
2004/05/06
Intelligence and
Vietnam
The Top Secret 1969 State Department Study
2004/04/30
Presidential
Records Act Lawsuit Reconsidered
Archive, Historians Ask Judge to Reconsider Dismissal
2004/04/19
The
Blind Man and the Elephant
Reporting on the Mexican Military
2004/04/12
Update:
The President's Daily Brief
The
Declassified August 6, 2001 PDB and More
2004/04/08
The
President's Daily Brief Coverup
Archive
Calls for Declassification of the President's Daily Brief
2004/04/07
The
U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994
The
Assassination of the Presidents and the Beginning of the "Apocalypse"
2004/03/31
Brazil Marks 40th
Anniversary of Military Coup
Declassified Documents Shed Light on U.S. Role
2004/03/24
The
U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994
Information, Intelligence and the U.S. Response
2004/03/19
The Taliban File Part III
Pakistan
Provided Millions of Dollars, Arms, and "Buses Full of Adolescent
Mujahid" to the Taliban in the 1990's
2004/03/14
Mexico:
Prelude to Disaster
José López Portillo and the Crash of 1976
2004/03/11
Librarians/Archivists/Public Interest
v. Vice President Cheney
National Security Archive Joins Amicus Brief in Supreme
Court Versus Government Secrecy Around Energy Task Force
2004/03/05
China, Pakistan, and the
Bomb
The Declassified File on U.S. Policy, 1977-1997
2004/02/26
The
Oliver North File
His Diaries, E-Mail, and Memos on the Kerry Report, Contras
and Drugs
2004/02/18
Ed Koch Threatened With Assassination
in 1976
New book reveals "Condor" agents discussed plan to
kill former New York congressman/mayor
2004/02/11
Update
on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
2004/02/04
Dear
Mr. President: Lessons on Justice from Guatemala
The latest release from the Archive's Mexico Project
2004/02/03
Nixon
on Chile Intervention
White
House tape acknowledges instructions to block Salvador Allende
2004/01/30
Taliban
File Update: U.S. Pressed Taliban to Expel Usama bin Laden Over
30 Times
Only
three approaches in first year of Bush administration
2004/01/20
Rebellion
in Chiapas and the Mexican Military
2004/01/14
"It
Is Certain There Will be Many Firestorms"
New
evidence on the origins of overkill
2003/12/18
The
Saddam Hussein Sourcebook
Declassified secrets from the U.S.-Iraq relationship
2003/12/11
Nixon's Trip to China
Records now completely declassified, including Kissinger intelligence
briefing and assurances on Taiwan
2003/08/28
The Search for Truth
The declassified record on human rights abuses in Peru
2003/08/18
Nixon's Mexico Tapes
Secret recordings from the Nixon White House on Luis Echeverría
and much much more
2003/06/10
The Corpus Christi Massacre
Mexico's attack on its student movement, June 10, 1971
2003/05/21
Dubious
Secrets
Declassified documents show excessive secrecy, arbitrary and
subjective classification decisions
2000/08/08
Archive wins Freedom of Information
ruling versus CIA
Federal judge rejects CIA’s attempt “neither to confirm or deny” existence
of CIA biographies of former Communist leaders
2000/08/02
Lawsuit
calls CIA secrecy claims "facially incredible"
Archive challenges CIA stonewalling on 50-year-old operations in Iran,
Italy
2000/07/17
The
"Death Squad Protection" Act
Senate measure would restrict public access to crucial human rights
information in DIA "operational files"
2000/06/30
Chile:
The Horman and Teruggi Killings
New information on the murders of U.S. citizens Charles Horman and
Frank Teruggi by the Chilean military
2000/06/29
New FOIA Exemption Proposed by Senate
Proposed Freedom of Information Act exemption would restrict public
access to crucial human rights information
2000/06/26
The National Security Agency Declassified
Newly-declassified documents detail restrictions on the identification
of U.S. persons in National Security Agency reporting
2000/06/01
The
Guatemalan Military: What the U.S. Files Reveal
Archive releases comprehensive report and database on Guatemalan security
forces
2000/05/24
U.S.
Planning for Nuclear War in Europe
Documents from 1963-64 detail Kennedy and Johnson administraiton plans
for nuclear war in Europe
2000/05/09
U.S.
Humanitarian Interventions
Critical interagency report presents lessons learned from Kosovo,
Sudan, Afghanistan, Hurricane Mitch and other operations
2000/05/03
The
ULTRASENSITIVE Bay of Pigs
Newly released portions of Taylor Commission report provide critical
new details on Operation Zapata
2000/03/23
Chile:
The Letelier Assassination
New CIA document on Pinochet and the assassination of Orlando Letelier
2000/03/17
Archive
Honored with Polk Award
Staff awarded special 1999 George Polk Award as an "essential journalistic
resource"
2000/03/14
The
CIA in Latin America
Declassified documents on a "distinguished" career
2000/01/28
The
National Security Agency Declassified
ECHELON: Declassifed documents confirm existence of global communications
intelligence sharing program
1999/10/08
Chile: The Charles Horman Case
State Department release on Chile shows suspicions of CIA involvement
in Charles Horman "Missing" case
1999/06/30
CIA, STATE,
NSC Documents Declassified on Chile
Administration release applauded; Concern expressed on withheld U.S.
records
1999/05/27
DIA
Scoops Cox Report
1984 Defense Intelligence Estimate details Chinese nuclear espionage
1999/05/20
Guatemala:
"Death Squad Dossier"
Logbook details human rights abuses by Guatemalan security forces
in 1980s
1999/05/13
Archive
Sues CIA
Cites broken promises on declassification
1999/04/27
Vietnam:
Argument Without End
Authors' roundtable with Robert S. McNamara
1998/10/23
The CIA and
Human Rights in Honduras
Secret report admits "inaccurate" reporting to Congress
1998/09/11
25th Anniversary
of Chilean Coup
Declassified documents detail abuses by Chilean military; U.S. role
in Chile
1998/06/04
Bay
of Pigs Declassified: The Secret CIA Report
New National Security Archive documents reader to be published in
September 1998
1998/06/04
CIA Bay of
Pigs Documents Declassified
After-action report recommended covert operations against Castro be
abandoned
1998/05/13
India and
Pakistan: On the Nuclear Threshold
Archive publishes previously secret documents on South Asian nuclear
programs
1998/03/19
Nuclear History
First documented evidence that U.S. presidents predelegated nuclear
weapons release authority to the military
1998/02/22
CIA Critique
on Bay of Pigs Declassified
Withheld 36 years, IG report blasts CIA handling of Cuba invasion
1998/01/20
New Report
Criticizes Declassification Delays on Human Rights in Honduras
Honduran human rights commissioner decries lack of U.S. documentation
for inquiry
1997/10/17
Human Rights
in Latin America
Archive leads campaign for declassification of documents on human
rights abuses
1997/05/14
U.S.
Nuclear Weapons on Okinawa
Newly released documents fuel NHK documentary
