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New - February 2, 2010
Seeing human rights in the "proper manner"
The Reagan-Chun Summit of February 1981


January 15, 2010
The Air Force versus Hollywood
Documentary on "SAC Command Post" Tried to Rebut "Dr. Strangelove" and "Fail Safe"


December 18, 2009
Kyoto Redux?
Obama's Challenges at Copenhagen Echo Clinton's at Kyoto


December 14, 2009
National Security Archive and White House Reach Agreement for Restoration of Missing Bush White House E-mails


December 11, 2009
Kennedy Considered Supporting Coup in South Vietnam, August 1963
Newly Declassified Audio Tapes Reveal JFK Saw Only Negative Choices


December 10, 2009
Thirtieth Anniversary of NATO's Dual-Track Decision
The Road to the Euromissiles Crisis and the End of the Cold War
New Documents from the Archive's Nuclear Vault


December 8, 2009
Operación México: Programa argentino de rendición extraordinaria revelado por documentos desclasificados
Operation Mexico: Secret Argentine Rendition Program Illuminated by Declassified Documents
(English)


December 3, 2009
Bush and Gorbachev at Malta
Previously Secret Documents from Soviet and U.S. Files on the 1989 Meeting, 20 Years Later


December 3, 2009
Jacobo Timerman hizo Tambalear a la Dictadura Argentina
La Administración de Carter dio prioridad a este caso; la liberación de Timerman estremeció a la Junta Militar en 1979


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Haiti Tragedy

January 15, 2010
The National Security Archive Mourns the Loss of Lisa Mbele-Mbong

We were tremendously saddened to learn of the untimely death on January 12 of our friend and former colleague, Lisa Mbele-Mbong, who was killed in the collapse of the UN Mission building during the earthquake in Haiti. Lisa was a human rights officer and team leader in the Policy and Planning Unit of MINUSTAH, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, based in Port-au-Prince.

Lisa and Nady, 1999

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January 15, 2010
White House E-mail Archiving Plan Revealed
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January 4, 2010
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Public Engagement Impacts Presidential Action


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