The
Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev
Former Top
Soviet Adviser's Journal Chronicles Final Years of the Cold
War
The
Moscow Helsinki Group 30th
Anniversary
From the Secret
Files
To the Geneva
Summit
Perestroika
and the Transformation of U.S.-Soviet Relations
The
Secret History of Dayton
U.S. Diplomacy and the Bosnia
Peace Process 1995
Alexander
Yakovlev and the Roots of the Soviet
Reforms
Soviets
Planned Nuclear First Strike to Preempt West, Documents
Show
New Volume of
Formerly Secret Records Published on 50th Anniversary of Warsaw
Pact
The
Velvet Revolution Declassified
Inaugural Volume of the New Václav Havel Library Publishes
State Department Cables from Prague 1989
The 1956 Hungarian
Revolution
A History in
documents
Uprising in East
Germany, 1953
Shedding light on a major Cold War
flashpoint
"Solidarity's
Coming Victory: Big or Too Big?"
Poland's revolution as
seen from the U.S. embassy
U.S.
Planning for War in Europe, 1963-64
Declassified U.S. documents complement recent release of
Warsaw Pact war plans
Why There
Was No Crackdown on the Revolutions of 1989
New documents
from Soviet/East European archives
Did NATO
Win the Cold War?
Latin
America
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
Report Documents 18 Years of "Dirty War" in
Mexico
Special
Prosecutor: State Responsible for Hundreds of Killings,
Disappearances
The
Guatemalan Police Archives
Images from Guatemala's
secret files of repression
Drugs
and the Guatemalan Military
A Report from the
Texas Observer
Paramilitaries as Proxies
Declassified
evidence on the Colombian army's anti-guerrilla "allies"
Robert
F. Kennedy Urged Lifting Travel Ban to Cuba in
'63
Attorney General
cited inconsistency "with traditional American liberties"
The
Posada File: Part II
Posada Boasted of
Plans to "Hit" Cuban Plane, CIA Document States
Luis
Posada Carriles: The Declassified Record
CIA and FBI Documents Detail Career in International Terrorism;
Connection to U.S.
The
Negroponte File
John Negroponte's
Chron File from Tenure in Honduras Posted
The
Secret Pinochet Portfolio
Former Dictator's Corruption
Scandal Broadens
The
Case Against Pinochet
Ex-Dictator Indicted for Condor Crimes
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
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"
Lifting
of Pinochet's Immunity Renews Focus on Operation
Condor
Documents Indicated 1976 Terror Attack in
Washington Might Have Been Prevented
After
the Revolution
Lázaro Cárdenas and the Movimiento de
Liberación Nacional
The
Blind Man and the
Elephant
Reporting on the Mexican Military
Brazil
Marks 40th Anniversary of Military Coup
Declassified
Documents Shed Light on U.S. Role
Mexico:
Prelude to Disaster
José López
Portillo and the Crash of 1976
The
Oliver North File
His Diaries,
E-Mail, and Memos on the Kerry Report, Contras and
Drugs
Ed
Koch Threatened With Assassination in 1976
New book reveals
"Condor" agents discussed plan to kill former New York
congressman/mayor
Dear
Mr. President: Lessons on Justice from Guatemala
The Latest
Release from the Archive's Mexico Project
Nixon
on Chile Intervention
White House tape
acknowledges instructions to block Salvador Allende
The
Dawn of Mexico's Dirty War
Lucio Cabañas and the
Party of the Poor
Kissinger
to Argentines on Dirty War: "The quicker you succeed the
better"
Documents show Secretary
of State gave green light to junta
Kennedy
& Castro: The Secret History
Initiative with Castro
aborted by assassination, declassified documents show
Mexico's
Southern Front
Guatemala and the Search
for Security
The Tlatelolco
Massacre
New declassified U.S. documents on Mexico and
the events of 1968
The Search for
Truth
The declassified record
on human rights abuses in Peru
Nixon's Mexico
Tapes
Secret recordings from the Nixon White House on
Luis Echeverría and much much more
Before
Democracy
Memories of Mexican elections
The
Corpus Christi Massacre
Mexico's attack on its student
movement, June 10, 1971
Human Rights and
the Dirty War in Mexico
Operation
Intercept
Nixon, Mexico and the perils of unilateralism
Pentagon and CIA
Sent Mixed Message to Argentine Military
Double
Dealing
Mexico's foreign policy toward Cuba
Argentine Junta
Security Forces Killed Disappeared Activists, Mothers and
Nuns
Argentine
Military Believed U.S. Gave Go-ahead for Dirty War
New
State Department documents show conflict between Washington and US
Embassy in Buenos Aires over signals to the military dictatorship at
height of repression in 1976
State
Department Opens Files on Argentina's Dirty War
New
Documents Describe Key Death Squad Under Former Army Chief
Galtieri
"Montesinos: Blind
Ambition"
The Peruvian Townsend Commission report and
declassified U.S. documentation
Nixon: "Brazil
helped rig the Uruguayan elections," 1971
Documents reveal
U.S. efforts to influence Uruguayan presidential election
Freedom of
Information in Mexico
Government proposal follows
public pressure for transparency
War
in Colombia
Guerrillas, Drugs and Human Rights in
U.S.-Colombia Policy, 1988-2002
Conflicting
Missions
Secret Cuban documents on history of Africa
involvement
Peru
in "The Eye of the Storm"
Declassified U.S. documentation
on human rights abuses and political violence
Shoot-Down in
Peru
The secret U.S. debate over intelligence sharing in
Peru and Colombia
Public Diplomacy
and Covert Propaganda
The
declassified record of Ambassador Otto Juan Reich
"Fujimori's
Rasputin"
The declassified
files on Peru's former Intelligence Chief, Vladimiro
Montesinos
New
Information on the Murders of U.S. Citizens Charles Horman and Frank
Teruggi by the Chilean Military
Newly-declassified documents from CIA, FBI and State
Department
The
Guatemalan Military: What the U.S. Files Reveal
Archive
releases comprehensive report and database on Guatemalan security
forces
The
ULTRASENSITIVE Bay of Pigs
Newly released portions of
Taylor Commission report
The CIA
in Latin America
Declassified documents on a
"distinguished" career
Guatemala:
Colonel Byron Lima Estrada
Declassified documents on former intelligence chief and
alleged mastermind behind the Gerardi murder
Guatemalan
"Death Squad Dossier"
Army log reveals the fate of scores
of Guatemalan citizens "disappeared" during the mid-1980s
Béisbol
Diplomacy with Cuba
U.S. Policy
in Guatemala, 1963-1993
Mexico:
The Tlatelolco Massacre
Declassified U.S. documents on the
events of 1968
Chile
and the United States
Declassified documents related to
the military coup of September 11, 1973
The
Death of Che Guevara: Declassified
CIA and
Assassinations
The Guatemala 1954 Documents
The
Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations
Nuclear
History
The
Vela Incident: Nuclear Test or Meteorite?
Documents
Show Significant Disagreement with Presidential Panel Concerning Cause
of September 22, 1979 Vela "Double-Flash" Detection
Israel
Crosses the Threshold
Senior Nixon
Administration Officials Considered Confronting Israel over Nuclear
Weapons in 1969
U.S.
Intelligence and the French Nuclear
Weapons Program
Documents Show U.S.
Intelligence Targeted French Nuclear Program as Early as
1946
U.S.
Intelligence and the South African Bomb
Documents Show U.S.
Unable to Penetrate Apartheid Regime's Nuclear Weapons
Program
"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
The
Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
A Collection
of Primary Sources
"Consultation
is Presidential Business"
Secret Understandings on the Use of Nuclear Weapons,
1950-1974
National
Intelligence Estimates of the Nuclear Proliferation
Problem
The First Ten Years,
1957-1967
The
Creation of SIOP-62
More Evidence on the Origins of
Overkill
"It Is
Certain There Will be Many Firestorms"
New evidence on
the origins of overkill
The
Making of the Limited Test Ban Treaty
1958-1963
1960s "Nth
Country Experiment" Foreshadows Today's Concerns Over the Ease of
Nuclear Proliferation
North
Korea and Nuclear Weapons
The declassified U.S. record
Nixon's
Nuclear Ploy
An online
companion piece to an article appearing in the January/February 2003
issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The
Secret History of the ABM Treaty,1969-1972
National
Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 60
First
Strike Options and the Berlin Crisis, 1961
New documents
from the Kennedy Administration
Eisenhower and
Nuclear Predelegation
First declassification of
Eisenhower's instructions predelegating use of nuclear weapons
Launch on
Warning
The development of U.S. capabilities,
1959-1979
The
United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-1964
Companion documents to Winter 2000/2001 edition of
International Security
Missile
Defense 30 Years Ago: Deja Vu All Over Again?
NMD
Questions Parallel ABM Debate During Johnson, Nixon
Administrations
U.S.
Planning for War in Europe, 1963-64
Declassified U.S. documents complement recent release of
Warsaw Pact war plans
The
Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program
Problems of intelligence
collection and analysis, 1964-1972
U.S.
Nuclear Weapons Deployments in Chichi Jima and Iwo
Jima
United
States Secretly Deployed Nuclear Bombs In 27 Countries and Territories
During the Cold War
New
Archival Evidence on Taiwanese "Nuclear Intentions",
1966-1976
U.S.
Nuclear Weapons and Okinawa
Israel and
the Bomb
Newly
Declassified Documents on Advance Presidential Authorization of
Nuclear Weapons Use
U.S. Presidents
Predelegated Nuclear Weapons Release Authority to Military
Commanders
The
U.S. Atomic Energy Detection System (AEDS)
India
and Pakistan -- On the Nuclear Threshold
China and East
Asia
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
U.S.-Japan
Relations Declassified
New Web
Publication Documents Secret History of Recent U.S.-Japan Ties,
1977-1992
A
Quarter Century of U.S. Support for
Occupation
National
Security Archive provides more than 1,000 documents to East Timor
Truth Commission after Bush administration refuses cooperation
North
Korea and the United States
Declassified Documents
from the Bush I and Clinton Administrations
New
Documentary Reveals Secret U.S., Chinese Diplomacy Behind Nixon's
Trip
Chinese Marshal
Received Top Secret Intelligence Briefing from Kissinger in
1972
Indonesia's
1969 Takeover of West Papua
Document Release Marks
35th Anniversary of Controversial Vote and Annexation
Intelligence
and Vietnam
The Top Secret 1969 State Department
Study
China,
Pakistan, and the Bomb
The Declassified File
on U.S. Policy, 1977-1997
Nixon's
Trip to China
Now completely
declassified, including Kissinger intelligence briefing and assurances
on Taiwan
JFK and
the Diem Coup
JFK tape reveals
high-level Vietnam coup plotting in 1963
North
Korea and Nuclear Weapons
The Declassified U.S. Record
Negotiating
U.S.-Chinese Rapprochement
New American and Chinese
documention leading up to Nixon's 1972 trip
Henry
Kissinger's Secret Trip to China
The Beijing-Washington
Back-Channel, September 1970-July 1971
East Timor
Revisited
Ford, Kissinger and the Indonesian invasion,
1975-76
The
Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969
U.S. reactions and
diplomatic maneuvers
The
U.S. "Tiananmen Papers"
New documents reveal U.S.
perceptions of Chinese political crisis
Reconnaissance
Flights and Sino-American Relations
Policy developments
and a Hainan Island incident, 1969-1970
The
United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-1964
Companion documents to Winter 2000/2001 edition of
International Security
Tiananmen
Square 1989
The declassified history
Record
of Richard Nixon-Zhou Enlai Talks, February 1972
China
and the United States
From hostility to engagement
The
United States, China, and the Bomb
U.S. Intelligence
Community
The
Vela Incident: Nuclear Test or Meteorite?
Documents
Show Significant Disagreement with Presidential Panel Concerning Cause
of September 22, 1979 Vela "Double-Flash" Detection
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
Eyes on
the Bomb
U-2, CORONA, and KH-7 Imagery of Foreign Nuclear
Installations
U.S.
Intelligence and the French Nuclear
Weapons Program
Documents Show U.S.
Intelligence Targeted French Nuclear Program as Early as
1946
U.S.
Intelligence and the South African Bomb
Documents Show U.S.
Unable to Penetrate Apartheid Regime's Nuclear Weapons
Program
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
The
National Security Agency Declassified
Update
Internet
wiretapping mixes "protected" and targeted messages, Info Age requires
rethinking 4th Amendment limits and policies, National Security Agency
told Bush administration
From
Director of Central Intelligence to Director of National
Intelligence
The
Spy Satellite So Stealthy that the Senate Couldn't Kill
It
Secret Program
First Described in Book by Archive Senior Fellow
The
Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later
Flawed
Intelligence and the Decision for War in Vietnam
CIA
Whites Out Controversial Estimate on Iraq
Weapons
Main Subject of Today's Senate
Intelligence Report Remains Largely Secret
The
Interrogation Documents
Debating U.S. Policy and
Methods
Prisoner Abuse: Patterns
from the Past
Cold War U.S.
Interrogation Manuals Counseled "Coercive Techniques"
Eyes on
Saddam
U.S. overhead imagery of Iraq
The
U-2, OXCART, and the SR-71
U.S. aerial espionage in the
Cold War and beyond
Science,
Technology and the CIA
From satellites to psychics
The
Pentagon's Spies
Documents detail histories of once secret
spy units
Reconnaissance
Flights and Sino-American Relations
Policy Developments
and a Hainan Island Incident, 1969-1970
The
NRO Declassified
The creation and
evolution of America's secretive spy satellite agency
The
National Security Agency Declassified
Updated Newly
declassified directive governs interception of communications
involving "U.S. persons"
U.S.
Satellite Imagery, 1960-1999
Middle East and South
Asia
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
Saddam's
Iron Grip
Intelligence
Reports on Saddam Hussein's Reign
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
CIA
Whites Out Controversial Estimate on Iraq
Weapons
Main Subject of Today's Senate
Intelligence Report Remains Largely Secret
Mohammad
Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran
New Volume
Reexamines a Seminal Event in Modern Middle Eastern History
The
Saddam Hussein Sourcebook
Declassified secrets from the
U.S.-Iraq relationship
The October War and
U.S. Policy
Kissinger gave green
light for Israeli offensive violating 1973 cease-fire
Eyes on
Saddam
U.S. overhead imagery of Iraq
Shaking
Hands with Saddam Hussein
The U.S. tilts toward Iraq,
1980-1984
Iraq
and Weapons of Mass Destruction
The
Tilt: The U.S. and the South Asian Crisis of 1971
U.S.
Propaganda in the Middle East
The early Cold War
version
Operation Desert
Storm: Ten Years After
Documents shed light on role of
intelligence, stealth technology and space systems in the Gulf
War
The
Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953
20
Years after the Hostages
Declassified documents on Iran
and the United States
The September 11th
Sourcebooks
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
Bush
Administration's First Memo on al-Qaeda
Declassified
Document Central
to Clarke-Rice Dispute on Bush Terrorism Policy Pre-9/11
Volume
I - Terrorism and U.S. Policy
Volume II -
Afghanistan: Lessons from the Last War
Volume III -
BIOWAR
The Nixon administration's decision to end U.S.
biological warfare programs
Volume IV - The
Once and Future King?
From the secret
files on King Zahir's reign in Afghanistan, 1970-1973
Volume V -
Anthrax at Sverdlovsk, 1979
U.S. intelligence on the
deadliest modern outbreak
Volume VI -
The Hunt for Bin Laden
Background on the role of Special
Forces in U.S. military strategy
Volume
VII - The Taliban File
Taliban
File Update: U.S. Pressed Taliban to Expel Usama bin Laden Over 30
Times
Only three
approaches in first year of Bush administration
The
Taliban File Part III
Pakistan Provided
Millions of Dollars, Arms, and "Buses Full of Adolescent Mujahid" to
the Taliban in the 1990's
The
Taliban File Part IV
Mullah Omar Called Washington in
1998, New Documents Show
Update:
The Taliban File Part IV
Pre-9/11 U.S. Attempts to
Drive Bin Laden Out of Afghanistan Repeatedly Unsuccessful, Documents
Show
FAA
Believed Second 9/11 Plane Heading Towards NY for Emergency
Landing
Released 9/11 Hijacking Reports Further Detail
Confused U.S. Response
Humanitarian
Interventions
The U.S. and the
Genocide in Rwanda 1994
The
Assassination of the Presidents and the Beginning of the
"Apocalypse"
The
U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda
1994
Information,
Intelligence and the U.S. Response
The US
and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994
Evidence of
inaction
Lessons
Learned from U.S. Humanitarian Interventions Abroad Lessons
learned from Kosovo, Sudan, Afghanistan, Hurricane Mitch and other
operations
Government
Secrecy
U.S.
National Archives Web Site Uploads Thousands of Diplomatic
Cables
A Major Step for On-Line
Research
Pseudo-Secrets
A Freedom of
Information Audit of the U.S. Government's Policies on Sensitive
Unclassified Information
A FOIA Request Celebrates Its 17th Birthday
A Report on Federal
Agency FOIA Backlog
Declassification
in Reverse
CIA Removes 50 Year Old Documents From Open
Stacks at National Archives
Rumsfeld's
Roadmap to Propaganda
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
Return of the
Fallen
Freedom of Information Lawsuit
Removes Secrecy for Flag-Draped Casket Ceremonies
The
Deep Throat File
FBI Memos Detail
Mark Felt's Involvement in Efforts to Identify Secret Watergate
Souce
Nixon
and the FBI
The White House
Tapes
Bush
Administration Claims Presidential Privilege for LBJ
Documents
CIA Refuses
Release of 35-Year-Old President's Daily Briefs
Return of the
Fallen
Pentagon Releases Hundreds More
War Casualty Homecoming Images
Uncovering
the Architect of the Holocaust
The CIA Names File
on Adolf Eichmann
The CIA
and Nazi War Criminals
National Security
Archive Posts Secret CIA History Released Under Nazi War Crimes
Disclosure Act
Professor
Sues CIA for President's Daily Briefs
Vietnam Expert
Seeks Historic PDBs from Johnson Years; Challenges CIA Blanket Policy
of Non-Release
Pentagon
Censors Chain of Command on Abu
Ghraib
Taguba Report
Named Names of Abusers and Commanders
Professor
Sues Pentagon to Make Public Honor Guard Photos From Dover Air
Base
Challenges 1991
Policy to Censor Images of War Casualties' Return
The
Kissinger State Department Telcons
Telcons Show
Kissinger Opposed Human Rights Diplomacy;
Secretary of State Tapped
Own Phone Calls
The
Kissinger Telcons
Archive
Celebrates Release of Previously Sequestered Telephone
Records
The
President's Daily Brief
The Declassified
August 6, 2001 PDB and More
Justice
Delayed is Justice Denied
The ten oldest pending
FOIA requests in the federal government
The
Freedom of Information Act on Its 37th Birthday
Archive
features 20 news stories based on FOIA
Dubious
Secrets
Declassified documents show excessive secrecy,
arbitrary and subjective classification decisions
The
Ashcroft Memo
"Drastic" change or "more thunder than
lightning"?
Trading
Democracy?
Documents from NAFTA's secret tribunals
CIA
Stalling State Department Histories
Archive Posts One
of the Two Disputed Volumes on Web
State historians
conclude U.S. passed names of communists to Indonesian Army, which
killed at least 105,000 in 1965-66
The
Pentagon Papers
Secrets, lies and audiotapes
The
Death Squad Protection Act
Senate
measure would restrict public access to crucial human rights
information
