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2008/05/08
Washington Post Profiles the Archive
"The house that FOIA built and a mecca for documents buffs"; Documents "nothing short of astonishing"
2008/05/07
Archive Featured in Fox News Expose on FBI Files
FBI Official Claims Innocent Mistake in Answering "No Records" on Al Qaeda; But FBI Sent "No Records" Response a Second Time Answering Archive's Appeal
2008/05/06
White House Backups are Incomplete, May Not Contain Some Missing E-mails
Court Filing Says White House Cannot Identify Hard Drives in Use When E-mails Were Lost
2008/04/30
Air Force Histories Show Cautious Presidents Overruling Air Force Plans for Early Use of Nuclear Weapons
2008/04/24
Court Sets Deadline for White House Answers on Missing E-mail
Magistrate Judge Cites "Lack of Precision" in White House Statements
2008/04/17
Ruling on Preservation of White House E-Mails Awaited
New Law Proposed to Address Destruction of Electronic Records
2008/04/11 - Update
U.S.
Reconnaissance Satellites: Domestic Targets
Documents
Describe Use of Satellites in Support of Civil Agencies and Longstanding Controversy
2008/04/09
Fighting the War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973
Air Force Histories Reveal CIA Role in Laos, CIA Air Strike Missions, New Evidence on Nuclear Weapons, Air Force Policy Disputes, During Vietnam War Years
2008/03/19
Treasury Wins 2008 "Rosemary Award" as Worst FOIA Agency
National Security Archive Annual Award Cites Shredded Letters, Decade-Long Delays, and Sub-Prime Performance
2008/03/18
Court orders White House to show cause why it should not create forensic copies of all electronic media
Seeks means to protect missing e-mails in response to Archive lawsuit
2008/03/16
Mixed Signals, Mixed Results: How President Bush's Executive Order on FOIA Failed to Deliver - The Knight Open Government Survey
Two Years Later, Freedom of Information Order Still Has Not Produced All That It Promised
2008/03/04
Slain Colombian Insurgent Held Secret Talks with U.S. Diplomats
Declassified State Department Memo Describes Clandestine 1998 Meetings with Colombian Guerrillas Central to Current Saber-Rattling in Andean Region
2008/02/26
White House Ignored Repeated Warnings That E-mails Were at Risk
White House Staff Claims Ignorance about its Own Prior Investigation Into Missing E-mails, Acknowledges it Still Has Not Located E-mails From Over 200 Days
2008/02/22
Southern Cone Rendition Program: Peru's Participation
Operation Condor Crimes Focus of Italian Indictments
2008/02/16
Paramilitaries and the United States: "Unraveling the Pepes Tangled Web"
Documents Detail Narco-Terror Connection to U.S.-Colombia Anti-Escobar Task Force
2008/01/31
National Security Archive and Historical Associations Petition for Release of Rosenberg Grand Jury Records
More Than 50 Years After Spy Trial, Public Interest Outweighs Privacy, National Security Concerns
2008/01/28
Suharto: A Declassified Documentary Obit
2008/01/24
"Secrecy" Film Premieres at Sundance
Archive Director Featured in Q & A
2008/01/20
1978: Clandestine Operation of Argentine Military Intelligence in Mexico
Archive Publishes Spanish-language Briefing Book on Mexican Secret Services Capture of Operatives Attempting to Kill Argentine Insurgents
2008/01/16
White House Admits No Back-Up Tapes for E-mail Before October 2003
Responds to Court's Questions; Claims Not to Know Whether Critical E-mails Were Erased
2008/01/14
In 1974 Estimate, CIA Found that Israel Already Had a Nuclear Stockpile
"Many Countries" Would Soon Have Nuclear Capabilities
2008/01/08
White House Must Answer Questions About Missing White House E-mails, Magistrate Judge Rules
2007/12/18
- Updated Jan 2, 2008
President Signs FOIA Amendment
First FOIA Reform Bill In More Than A Decade Becomes Law
2007/12/14
Archive Argues Against Government Attempt to Dismiss White House E-mail Lawsuit
Dismissal Would Leave No Remedy or Recovery for 5 Million or More Historic Computer Record
2007/12/10
The INF Treaty and the Washington Summit
20 Years Later
2007/12/10
Fujimori on Trial
Secret DIA Intelligence Cable Ties Former President to Summary Executions
2007/12/10
Fujimori on Trial
Secret DIA Intelligence Cable Ties Former President to Summary Executions
2007/11/22
New
Evidence on the Origins of Overkill
First Substantive Release of Early SIOP Histories
2007/11/15
Terrorism
Case of Luis Posada Debated on Capitol Hill
Archive Analyst Peter Kornbluh Shares Declassified
CIA and FBI Intelligence Reports With House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
2007/11/13
Judge Orders Executive Office of the President to Preserve E-mail Backup Tapes
2007/11/09
Space-Based
Early Warning: From MIDAS to DSP to SBIRS
Last DSP satellite to be launched tomorrow
2007/11/05
The Record on CURVEBALL
Declassified Documents and Key Participants Show the Importance of Phony Intelligence in the Origins of the Iraq War
2007/11/02
Kissinger Conspired With Soviet Ambassador to
Keep Secretary of State in the Dark
U.S. State Department and Russian Foreign Ministry Publish Record of Dobrynin-Kissinger "Back Channel" Meetings Based on First-time Access to Classified Soviet-Era Documents
2007/10/29
Archive seeks to discover true extent of missing e-mails at White House
Demands the initiation of discovery to ensure Executive Office of the President cannot render judicial preservation decisions meaningless
2007/10/25
Che Guevara's Hair Auctioned Off
Scrapbook of memorabilia kept by CIA operative who buried Che
renews attention to Guevara's execution, U.S. Role
2007/10/01
Declassifying the "Fact of" Satellite Reconnaissance
The Debate and Documents
2007/10/01
Court Rules Delay in Release of Presidential Papers is Illegal
Fails to Address Authority of Former Vice Presidents to Hold Up Disclosure of Papers
2007/09/28
The Mexico Freedom of Information Program
Archive Launches New Web Page on Transparency in Mexico
2007/09/17
The
Pentagon's Counterspies:
The Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA)
Documents
Describe Organization and Operations of Controversial Agency and
Database
2007/09/14
U.S. Reconnaissance Satellites:
Domestic Targets
Documents Describe Use of Satellites in Support of Civil Agencies
2007/09/10
The Algerian Nuclear Problem,
1991: Controversy over the Es Salam Nuclear Reactor
1991 Controversy over Algerian Nuclear Reactor Led Washington to
Seek Chinese Assistance in Pressing Algiers to Adhere to Nuclear
Nonproliferation Goals
2007/09/05
Archive Sues to Recover 5
Million Missing White House E-mails
2007/09/05
New Court Decisions in Two
Archive Cases
2007/08/14
Pakistan: "The Taliban's Godfather"?
Documents
Detail Years of Pakistani Support for Taliban, Extremists
2007/08/10
The George Polk
Case
CIA Has Lost Records on CBS Reporter Murdered in Greece in 1948,
and Destroyed FOIA File on Case
2007/07/13
Secrecy
and U.S. Satellite Reconnaissance, 1958-1976
Even
at Height of Cold War, U.S. Officials Regularly Argued Internally
for More Transparency
2007/07/12
Congress
Asks Archive to Testify About Overclassification of Records
2007/07/03
Groups
Urge Senate to Enact FOIA Reform on the Law's 41st Birthday
2007/07/02
40
Years of FOIA, 20 Years of Delay
Knight Open Government Survey by National Security
Archive finds agencies mislead Congress on oldest requests
2007/07/01
The
Truth about Triple-A
U.S.
Document Implicates Current, Former Colombian Army Commanders in
Terror Operation
2007/06/21
The CIA's Family
Jewels
Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years; Wiretapped Journalists
and Dissidents
2007/06/15
U.S. Opposed Taiwanese
Bomb during 1970s
Declassified Documents Show Persistent U.S. Intervention
to Discourage Suspicious Nuclear Research
2007/05/25
The
Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev
Archive
Publishes Second Installment of Former Top Soviet Adviser's Journal
2007/05/08
Iraq: The Media
War Plan
Declassified White Paper and PowerPoint Slides on Pentagon's
"Rapid Reaction Media Team" for Iraq
2007/05/03
Documents
Linked to Cuban Exile Luis Posada Highlighted Targets for Terrorism
Bomber's Confessions Point to Explosives Hidden in Toothpaste Tube
that Brought Down Civilian Airliner in 1976
2007/05/03
Archive
and Openness Advocates Urge Court Scrutiny of Government Secrecy
Claims
Amicus brief argues against deference in warrantless wiretapping
case
2007/04/16
Archive
Director Featured on Fox News Sunday As “Power Player of the
Week”
Chris Wallace Interview Features Archive Documents
2007/03/29
Documents Implicate Colombian
Government in Chiquita Terror Scandal
Article by Archive Analyst Featured in The Nation
2007/03/22
Congress Asks Archive General Counsel
to Testify on Reducing Pseudo-Secrets
2007/03/16
Air
Force Wins 2007 Rosemary Award for Worst FOIA Performance
2007/03/14
Archive Testifies in Support of Senate FOIA Reform Efforts
Archive
General Counsel Testifies that FOIA Executive Order Does Not Go
Far Enough to Enforce Compliance with FOIA; Congress Must Mandate
Solutions for Delay, Agency Obstruction on FOIA
2007/03/13
Are
We Safer in the Dark?
Archive
Director Tom Blanton in USA Today
2007/03/12
File Not Found: Agencies Violate Law on Freedom of Information
The
Knight Open Government Survey
2007/03/01
The Presidential Records Act in Crisis
Six Years Since White House Intervened, Five Years
of "Pure Delay"
2007/02/14
TOP
SECRET POLO STEP
Iraq War Plan Assumed Only 5,000 U.S. Troops Still There by December
2006
2007/02/14
House
Subcommittee Asks Archive for FOIA Reform Advice
Archive General Counsel Testifies that Congress Should Mandate Solutions;
Cites 17 Year Delays, Lost Requests, and Agency Obstruction of FOIA
2007/02/07
CIA
Proposed Rule on FOIA Fees Would Burden Requesters and the Agency
National Security Archive Warns that Fee Disuputes Obstruct Open
Government
2007/01/06
Charter
77 After 30 Years
Documenting the Landmark Human Rights Declaration
2006/12/12
Pinochet:
A Declassified Documentary Obit
Archive
Posts Records on former Dictator's Repression, Acts of Terrorism,
U.S. Support
2006/12/11
Solidarity
and Martial Law in Poland: 25 Years Later
U.S. Misread Polish
Leadership, and Was Unprepared for the Crackdown despite Having
a Spy on the Inside
2006/11/24
The Iran-Contra Affair 20
Years On
Documents Spotlight Role of Reagan, Top Aides
2006/11/21
Official
Report Released on Mexico's "Dirty War"
Government
Acknowledges Responsibility for Massacres, Torture, Disappearances
and Genocide
2006/11/10
The
Robert Gates File
The Iran-Contra Scandal, 1991 Confirmation Hearings, and
Excerpts from new book Safe for Democracy
2006/11/04
Post-Saddam
Iraq: The War Game
"Desert Crossing" 1999 Assumed 400,000
Troops and Still a Mess
2006/10/31
CIA
Had Single Officer in Hungary 1956
Declassified
CIA Histories Describe Hungarian Revolution as "Undreamed-of"
2006/10/26
North
Korea's Collapse?
The
End Is Near -- Maybe
2006/10/19
Attorney
General's Report Ignores Serious Problems in Agency FOIA Programs
National
Security Archive Calls for Congressional Oversight
2006/10/13
The
Reykjavik File
Previously Secret U.S. and Soviet Documents on the 1986
Reagan-Gorbachev Summit
2006/10/10
VA
Takes Nine Months to Locate Data on Disability Claims by Veterans
of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Report
Indicates that 1 in 4 Veterans of the Global War on Terrorism Claim
Disabilities
2006/10/05
Bombing of Cuban
Jetliner 30 Years Later
New Documents on Luis Posada Posted as Texas Court Weighs
Release from Custody
2006/10/02
Kissinger's "Salted Peanuts"
and the Iraq War
The National Security Archive Posts Original Document Cited in Bob
Woodward's State of Denial
2006/10/01
The Dead of Tlatelolco
Using the Archives to Examine the Past
2006/09/27
"A
Comprehensive Strategy to Fight Al-Qaeda"?
Rice versus Clinton on January 2001 Clarke Memo
2006/09/22
U.S. Intelligence on Russian
and Chinese Nuclear Testing Activities, 1990-2000
Prospects of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Led China to Accelerate
Testing Schedule
2006/09/20
Letelier-Moffitt
Assassination 30 Years Later
National
Security Archive calls for Release of Withheld Documents Relating
to Pinochet's Role in Infamous Act of Terrorism in Washington, D.C.
on September 21, 1976
2006/09/01
New State Department
Releases on the "Future of Iraq" Project
New Documents Provide Details on Budgets, Interagency Coordination
and Working Group Progress
2006/08/18
How
Many and Where Were
the Nukes?
What the U.S. Government No Longer Wants You to Know about
Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War
2006/08/11
Government Releases
Detailed Information on 9/11 Crashes
Complete Air-Ground Transcripts of Hijacked 9/11 Flight
Recordings Declassified
2006/07/31
Nuclear
Weapons, the Vietnam War, and the "Nuclear Taboo"
Nixon White House Considered Nuclear Options Against North Vietnam,
Declassified Documents Reveal
2006/07/04
Freedom
of Information at 40
LBJ Refused Ceremony, Undercut Bill with Signing Statement
2006/06/14
CIA Claims the Right to Decide What
is News
Archive Sues to Break FOIA Fee Barrier for Journalists
2006/05/26
Massive
Collection of Formerly Secret and Top Secret Transcripts of Henry
Kissinger's Meetings with World Leaders Published On-Line
28,000
Pages of Documents Show Kissinger as Negotiator and Policymaker
in Real-time, Verbatim Talks with World Leaders
2007/05/25
The
Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev
Archive
Publishes First Installment on Author's 85th Birthday
2006/05/12
The
Moscow Helsinki Group 30th Anniversary
From
the Secret Files
2006/05/05
The Vela Incident:
Nuclear Test or Meteoroid?
Documents Show Significant Disagreement with Presidential
Panel Concerning Cause of September 22, 1979 Vela "Double-Flash"
Detection
2006/04/28
Israel
Crosses the Threshold
Senior
Nixon Administration Officials Considered Confronting Israel over
Nuclear Weapons in 1969
2006/04/26
ISOO
Audit Report Exposes Abuse of Classification System
National
Declassification Initiative Needed, Recommends ISOO
2006/04/21
U.S.
National Archives Web Site Uploads Thousands of Diplomatic Cables
A
Major Step for On-Line Research
2006/04/19
Federal
Court Finds Air Force Engages in a Pattern or Practice of Violating
the FOIA
Archive
Lawsuit Forces the Air Force to Process FOIA Requests
2006/04/19
Secret Understanding Between
National Archives and CIA Exposes Framework for Surreptitious Reclassification
Program
U.S. Archivist Promises No More Secret Agreements
2006/04/13
U.S. Intelligence
and the Indian Bomb
Documents Show U.S. Intelligence Failed to Warn of India's
Nuclear Tests Despite Tracking Nuclear Weapons Potential Since 1950s
2006/04/11
Secret
Agreement Reveals Covert Program to Hide Reclassification from Public
National Archives Signed Deal with Air Force to Disguise
Re-review of Open Files and Mislead Researchers on Reasons for Withdrawing
Previously Open Records
2006/04/07
What the President Leaked
Authorized
Leak or Declassification?
The Documents Behind the Bush Administration's Intelligence Disclosures
on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction
2006/03/28
Eyes
on the Bomb
U-2, CORONA, and KH-7 Imagery of Foreign Nuclear Installations
2006/03/23
On 30th Anniversary
of Argentine Coup: New Declassified Details on Repression and U.S.
Support for Military Dictatorship
22,000
people murdered or disappeared by military between 1975 and 1978
according to secret Chilean intelligence report
2006/03/21
U.S.
Intelligence and the French Nuclear
Weapons Program
Documents
Show U.S. Intelligence Targeted French Nuclear Program as Early
as 1946
2006/03/14
Pseudo-Secrets
A
Freedom of Information Audit of the U.S. Government's Policies on
Sensitive Unclassified Information
2006/03/13
Archive
and EPIC Urge Second Circuit to Order Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
Withholding
of photos deprives public of unbiased evidence about abuse by American
troops and command responsibility
2006/03/13
U.S. Intelligence
and the South African Bomb
Documents
Show U.S. Unable to Penetrate Apartheid Regime's Nuclear Weapons
Program
2006/03/13
CIA
Wins 2006 "Rosemary Award" for Worst Freedom of Information
Performance by a Federal Agency
2006/03/12
A
FOIA Request Celebrates Its 17th Birthday
A
Report on Federal Agency FOIA Backlog
2006/03/09
Justice
Department e-mail on wiretapping program released through FOIA
Former
official describes legal defenses as "weak" and "slightly
after-the-fact,"
Guesses they reflected "VP's philosophy… best defense
is a good offense."
2006/02/21
Report
Documents 18 Years of "Dirty War" in Mexico
Special
Prosecutor: State Responsible for Hundreds of Killings, Disappearances
2006/02/21
Declassification
in Reverse
CIA Removes 50 Year Old Documents From Open Stacks at National
Archives
2006/02/13
Department of Justice concedes
it can begin to release internal warrantless surveillance records
on March 3
2006/02/04
Wiretap Debate
Déjà Vu: Electronic Surveillance: From the Cold War
to Al-Qaeda
Documents show Ford White House embraced wiretap law instead
of claiming "inherent" Presidential authority in 1976
despite objections from Rumsfeld, G.H.W. Bush, Kissinger
2006/01/27
Prominent
Historians, Political Scientists Urge Court to Reverse Lower Court
Decision Withholding Two 40-Year-Old Memos to LBJ
Scholars
Remind Court That an Accurate Understanding of Political History
is Integral to a Democratic Society
2006/01/26
Secret Pentagon
"roadmap" calls for "boundaries" between "information
operations" abroad and at home but provides no actual limits
as long as US doesn't "target" Americans
2006/01/24
East
Timor truth commission finds U.S. "political and military support
were fundamental to the Indonesian invasion and occupation"
"Responsibility" chapter published on Web by
National Security Archive
2006/01/19
CIA Secrecy Challenged
on President's Daily Brief
UC Davis Professor Appeals Lower Court Decision Withholding Two
40-Year-Old Memos to LBJ
2005/12/15
Archive
20th Anniversary Update:
Text of Bill Moyers Keynote,
"In the Kingdom of the Half-blind," now available on Archive
Web site
2005/12/14
U.S.-Japan
Relations Declassified
New Web Publication Documents Secret History of Recent
U.S.-Japan Ties, 1977-1992
2005/12/09
Bill
Moyers Headlines Archive 20th Anniversary Celebration
C-SPAN to Broadcast Live Event, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
New
Documents on War on Terrorism - Archive Releases
Pre-9/11 Warning to Saudis That
Osama Bin Laden Might Target Civilian Airliners
2005/12/01
Tonkin Gulf Intelligence
"Skewed" According to Official History and Intercepts
Newly Declassified National Security Agency Documents Show
Analysts Made "SIGINT fit the claim" of North Vietnamese
Attack
2005/11/28
A
Quarter Century of U.S. Support for Occupation
East Timor Truth Commission report uses declassified U.S. documents
to call for reparations from U.S. for its support of Indonesian
invasion and occupation of East Timor from 1975 until U.N. sponsored
vote in 1999
2005/11/23
"To
Have the Only Option That of Killing 80 Million People is the Height
of Immorality"
The Nixon Administration, the SIOP, and the Search for Limited Nuclear
Options, 1969-1974
2005/11/22
To
the Geneva Summit
Perestroika and the Transformation of U.S.-Soviet Relations
2005/11/21
The
Secret History of Dayton
U.S. Diplomacy and the Bosnia Peace Process 1995
2005/11/21
The
Guatemalan Police Archives
Images from Guatemala's secret files of repression
2005/11/18
Drugs
and the Guatemalan Military
A
Report from the Texas Observer
2005/10/26
Alexander
Yakovlev and the Roots of the Soviet Reforms
2005/10/21
Judge
Refuses In Camera Review of CIA Estimate on Iraq
CIA Secrecy Claims to Iraq Intelligence Given Little Scrutiny
Despite CIA's Numerous Public Statements About the Situation in
Iraq
2005/10/18
Saddam's
Iron Grip
Intelligence Reports on Saddam Hussein's Reign
2005/10/16
Paramilitaries
as Proxies
Declassified evidence on the Colombian army's paramilitary "allies"
2005/10/13
White House Ignored CIA Warnings
on Iraq
Postwar
Projections "had little or no impact on policy deliberations"
2005/10/10
Archive
and Openness Advocates Urge Supreme Court: Tell Lower Courts to
Scrutinize Government Secrecy Claims
Amicus
Brief Requests Review of Dismissal of Whistle Blower Case
2005/10/06
Is
it the “Abu Ghraib Protection Act?”
Senate
Measure Could Restrict Access to Crucial Information About Abu Ghraib
2005/09/28
National
Security Archive Marks International Right to Know Day
Commends
State Department for Monitoring Access to Information in Human Rights
Reports
2005/09/20
National Security Archive
Wins 2005 Emmy Award
"Declassified: Nixon in China" Cited by Television
Academy for Outstanding Achievement in News & Documentary Research
2005/09/09
FAA Believed Second
9/11 Plane Heading Towards NY for Emergency Landing
Released 9/11 Hijacking Reports Further Detail Confused
U.S. Response
2005/08/23
North
Korea and the United States: Declassified Documents from the Bush
I and Clinton Administrations
2005/08/18
- Update
Update: The Taliban
File Part IV
Pre-9/11
U.S. Attempts to Drive Bin Laden Out of Afghanistan Repeatedly Unsuccessful,
Documents Show
2005/08/17
State Department
experts warned CENTCOM before Iraq war about lack of plans for post-war
Iraq security
Planning
for post-Saddam regime change began as early as October 2001
2005/08/12
- Update
From
Director of Central Intelligence to Director of National Intelligence
New documents on authorities vested in nation's top intelligence
officer
2005/08/05
The
Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary
Sources
2005/08/04
PENTAGON
RELEASES MORE PHOTOS OF WAR CASUALTY HONOR GUARDS
Freedom of Information Lawsuit Removes Secrecy for Flag-Draped
Casket Ceremonies
2005/08/03
Archive,
Secrecy Experts Urge Court to Scrutinize Government Secrecy Claims
Secrecy Has Increased Exponentially Over Last Four Years,
and Military and Intelligence Officials Say Much of it is Unnecessary
2005/07/15
Judge
Grants Immortality to Presidential Privilege
Withholds Two CIA Daily Briefs to LBJ Despite Release of
35 Others with No Damage to U.S.
2005/07/01
"Consultation
is Presidential Business"
Secret Understandings on the Use of Nuclear Weapons,
1950-1974
2005/06/29
Nixon/Kissinger
Saw India as "Soviet Stooge" in 1971 South Asia Crisis
New Documents Show White House Ignored Regional Nature
of Crisis and Risked Confrontation with Moscow to Look Tough
2005/06/29
Robert
F. Kennedy Urged Lifting Travel Ban to Cuba in '63
Attorney General cited inconsistency "with traditional
American liberties"
2005/06/22
The
Deep Throat File
FBI Memos Detail Mark Felt's Involvement in Efforts
to Identify Secret Watergate Source
2005/06/09
The
Posada File: Part II
Posada Boasted of Plans to "Hit" Cuban
Plane, CIA Document States
2005/06/03
Nixon
and the FBI
The White House Tapes
2005/06/01
National
Intelligence Estimates of the Nuclear Proliferation Problem
The First Ten Years, 1957-1967
2005/05/13
Soviets
Planned Nuclear First Strike to Preempt West, Documents Show
New
Volume of Formerly Secret Records Published on 50th Anniversary
of Warsaw Pact
2005/05/10
D.C.
Circuit Narrows Advisory Committee Openness
Ruling
Effectively Ends Effort to Obtain Information on Cheney Energy Task
Force
2005/05/10
Luis
Posada Carriles: The Declassified Record
CIA and FBI Documents Detail Career in International Terrorism;
Connection to U.S.
2005/05/06
Bush
Administration Claims Presidential Privilege for LBJ Documents
CIA
Refuses Release of 35-Year-Old President's Daily Briefs
2005/04/28
Return
of the Fallen
Pentagon Releases Hundreds More War Casualty Homecoming
Images
2005/04/12
The
Negroponte File
John Negroponte's Chron File from Tenure in Honduras Posted
2005/03/24
Uncovering
the Architect of the Holocaust
The CIA Names File on Adolf Eichmann
2005/03/18
FOIA
Requests to Air Force Lost, Delayed and Ignored
Air Force Sued for a Pattern and Practice of Unresponsiveness to
Freedom of Information Requests
2005/03/17
Nixon
Library Promises Donation of Spliced Tapes/Files to National Archives
After Protest by Historians, New Letters Pledge Unified Collection
2005/03/15
The
Secret Pinochet Portfolio
Former
Dictator's Corruption Scandal Broadens
2005/03/15
Archive
General Counsel Testifies Before Congressional Hearing on "Openness
in Government and Freedom of Information"
2005/03/11
The
National Security Agency Declassified
Internet
wiretapping mixes "protected" and targeted messages, Info
Age requires rethinking 4th Amendment limits and policies, National
Security Agency told Bush administration
2005/03/10
Historians
Ask Congress to Suspend Nixon Transfer
Controversial
Cancellation of Nixon Library Conference Raises Questions About
Planned Move of Nixon Tapes and Presidential Files to Yorba Linda
2005/03/02
Archive
Director Testifies Before Congressional Hearing on "Overclassification
and Pseudo-classification"
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
