A story about the ICE detention of a former Chilean intelligence operative that features documents published by the National Security Archive is on the front page of today's New York Times. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

25 years ago, for the first time ever, the National Security Archive published all 3 versions of the Pentagon Papers, a leaked document tracking the historical context of the Vietnam War.

Who defines the line of government transparency?

50 years ago, the CIA released a pamphlet celebrating the spies of the American Revolution after it was caught surveilling American citizens. Coincidence? No.

The National Security Archive is looking for an intern for the Mexico Project! Follow this link for more information: nsarchive.gwu.edu/mexico-proje...

From 2021: "On June 7, 1981 ... Israel attacked and partially destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear research reactor at Tuwaitha, using U.S. supplied F-15 and F-16 aircraft to carry out the attack." nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

"The documents describe an extraordinary secret mission: In the autumn of 1994, the team of 31 Americans slipped quietly into a remote area of Kazakhstan to secure the 1,320 pounds of weapons-grade uranium and airlift it safely out of the country to the [US]." nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...

The @nsarchive.bsky.social has published a new document collection, "CIA Covert Operations: The Truman Years, 1946-1953," now available from ProQuest as part of the Digital National Security Archive.

In 1975, the former CIA chief of station in Congo was interviewed by members of the Senate "Church Committee" which was investigating various CIA abuses, including the assassination plot against Lumumba. (Source: JFK assassination records)

Nice quote from the Archive's @rsanta.bsky.social in a new article from Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/1603202...

In a handwritten note, Pres. Carter seems to dismiss Brzezinski's call for military action to incite the "downfall" of Khomeini: "We need to list everything that Khomeini would not want to see occur and which would not incite condemnation of U.S. by other nations." nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/197...

The @nsarchive.bsky.social is one of the best resources on the web on the declassified history of U.S.-Iran relations, the 1953 coup, the 1979 hostage crisis, and more. nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/iran...

Published today for the first time today, "Plan Victoria 82" is an essential Guatemalan army document describing its counterinsurgency strategy during the year of the Dos Erres massacre. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/338...

Here's one that made the cut: Secretary of State Kissinger giving a "green light" to the "dirty war" abuses in Argentina: "[O]ur basic attitude is that we would like you to succeed...The quicker you succeed the better.”

To celebrate 40 years, we published the “Top 40” declassified documents from our first four decades. What's your favorite? How about Oliver North's handwritten reminder to call up the former Treasury secretary in re: blocking a Ford Foundation grant to the Archive? nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

A top secret NSC email from 1986(!) describes how assistant secretary of state Elliott Abrams had to be discouraged from publicly praising Hasenfus. The NSC thought it would contribute to the perception that the U.S. government "inspired and encouraged [the] private lethal aid effort."

Eugene Hasenfus, whose 1986 capture in Nicaragua exposed the Iran-Contra scandal, has died at 84. The National Security Archive has published important documents on Hasenfus and the "off-the-shelf" covert operations run by the Reagan White House to sustain the Contra war.

In defying Ford's request, Sen. Church said "the national interest is better served by letting the American people know the true and complete story." Publication of the report in 1975 effectively outlawed targeted assassinations of foreign leaders as a policy instrument for 50 years.

President Ford urged Sen. Church not to publish the assassinations report, arguing that to do so would "do grievous damage to our country." In his reply, Church said "the national interest is better served by letting the American people know the true and complete story."

Another is the CIA's long secret internal report on the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was decalassified in 1998 after a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Secrity Archive. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB... nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...

One is a declassified report from 1995 titled "CIA and Guatemala Assassination Proposals 1952-1954" written by the CIA History Staff. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...

A 1946 British government report published today found that people near the detonations were killed “several times over” by the various effects of the nuclear explosions and postulated a “standardized kill rate” of 50,000 fatalities for an atomic bomb. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/334...

The "Final Report" also included large, color-coded maps depicting the extent of the physical damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

One newly published record is the “Final Report” of the Manhattan Project’s “Investigative Group,” which includes a detailed medical study on the injuries caused by the explosions along with photographic reports on blast and fire damage. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/334...

The National Security Archive is looking for a Social Media and Communications Intern! Follow this link for more information: nsarchive.gwu.edu/archive-look...

Other records published today show how the CIA manipulated the Colombian news media through covert propaganda operations to secretly plant information in the press. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The listening post was run by Manuel Villafana, a Bay of Pigs veteran and a former Cuban military attaché who defected in the early years of the revolution. Cover for the operation was provided by another Cuban expat, Manuel Machado Llosa. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Another group of CIA records tells the story of a high-level defector from Castro’s Cuba who for several years ran a covert CIA listening post in Bogotá targeting the office of Novosti, the Soviet news agency that was closely associated with the KGB. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

One group of CIA records published today describes how covert surveillance of a Soviet agent in Mexico City in 1968 led to intelligence on the “entire clandestine leadership” of the Colombian Communist Party and the FARC. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

A sampling of documents from the collection published today includes Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's readout of his Aug 1976 meeting with the Shah of Iran, in which Kissinger proposed a U.S. “buy back” of used fuel rods from Iran and said that a Iranian reprocessing program was unacceptable.