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May 10, 2012
CIA ALLOWED TO SUSTAIN COVER-UP OF BAY OF PIGS HISTORY
Judge Denies Declassification of Final Volume of CIA Official Report on Invasion of Cuba.

May 3, 2012
Update: The Guatemalan Death Squad Diary and the Right to Truth
National Security Archive Expert Testifies before International Court.

April 27, 2012
New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program
Findings that General Zia Had "Lied" About Pakistani Nuclear Activities Conflicted with U.S. Afghanistan Priority.

April 26, 2012
Taylor Verdict Milestone for International Justice
Liberian Warlord Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity During Sierra Leone's Civil War. Freedom of Information Documents Detail Human Rights Abuses in Liberia.

April 10, 2012
The SOLO File: Declassified Documents Detail "The FBI's Most Valued Secret Agents of the Cold War"
Morris Childs Talked to Mao, Khrushchev, Suslov, Ponomarev - Carried Soviet Funds for American Communists (with Brother Jack) - Reported Back to the FBI for Two Decades.

April 3, 2012
The Zelikow Memo: Internal Critique of Bush Torture Memos Declassified
Document sheds light on disputes over treatment of detainees.

April 1, 2012
Reagan On The Falkland/Malvinas: "Give[] Maggie enough to carry on..." Haig to Thatcher: "We are not impartial."
New U.S. Documents Show Washington Sided with British in Early April 1982 While Publicly Declaring Neutrality.

March 23, 2012
The Pursuit of Justice in Guatemala
There are two winds blowing in Guatemala today. One is for justice, and the other is the right-wing outrage that swept retired general Otto Pérez Molina to the presidency in November.

March 23, 2012
Underground Facilities: Intelligence and Targeting Issues
U.S. Intelligence : Hiding of Military Assets by "Rogue Nations" and Other States a Major Security Challenge for 21st Century

March 12, 2012
Holder Responds to Rosemary Award

March 1, 2012
The 3 A.M. Phone Call
False Warnings of Soviet Missile Attacks during 1979-80 Led to Alert Actions for U.S. Strategic Forces.

February 14, 2012
Justice Department Wins Rosemary Award for Worst Open Government Performance in 2011
National Security Archive cites selective leaks prosecutions, business-as-usual secrecy arguments in litigation, and retrograde information regulations.

February 13, 2012
INTEL WARS
The Lessons for U.S. Intelligence From Today's Battlefields.

February 3, 2012
NSArchive's Kate Doyle wins Prestigious ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism

February 3, 2012
The Pakistani Taliban's Coming Divide
How the Death of Its Leader Could Be Bad for the United States. ForeignAffairs.com Features article by archive analyst.

January 15, 2012
Cracking a Vietnam War Mystery
New Book, Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam, Uses Long-Hidden Communist Sources to Explore a Potential Missed Opportunity for Peace in 1966.

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