Category Archives: National Security Archive
U.S. Covert Intervention/Regime Change in Chile: Planning to Block Election of Allende Long Before September 1970 Election
U.S. Covert Intervention in Chile: Planning to Block Allende Began Long before September 1970 Election Nixon Alerted in Advance to Date of Coup, Retired CIA Operative Writes in Foreign Affairs Archive Commends Long-Awaited Release of State Department Compendium of Records … Continue reading
Special Plans and Double Meanings: Controversies over Deception, Intelligence and Policy Counterterrorism
Special Plans and Double Meanings: Controversies over Deception, Intelligence, and Policy Counterterrorism National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 456 Posted February 20, 2014 Edited by Jeffrey T. Richelson For more information contact: 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu Washington, DC, February 20, … Continue reading
Kennedy’s Last Act: Reaching Out to Cuba
Kennedy’s Last Act: Reaching Out to Cuba NOVEMBER 20, 2013 Kennedy Sought Dialogue with Cuba This Post was originally published in La Jornada. also at NSA http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/kennedys-last-act-reaching-out-to-cuba/ The 50th anniversary of the violent death of U.S. president, John F. Kennedy has yielded a long kept secret: in … Continue reading
Reframing the Iraq War
John Prados Senior Fellow, National Security Archive Posted: October 4, 2010 04:19 PM BIOBecome a Fan Get Email AlertsBloggers’ Index Reframing the Iraq War What’s Your Reaction: Important Fascinating Typical Scary Outrageous Amazing Infuriating Beautiful World News SHARE THIS STORY: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-prados/post_997_b_749773.html … Continue reading
The U.S.’s South Africa Policy at the Time of Mandela’s Arrest
The U.S.’ South Africa Policy at the Time of Mandela’s Arrest DECEMBER 13, 2013 tags: Apartheid, Dean Rusk, Nelson Mandela, South Africa by Lauren Harper Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison by a South African court on June 12, 1964, after being found guilty … Continue reading
Powerful National Security Letters Continue to Go Largely Unchecked
Powerful National Security Letters Continue to Go Largely Unchecked JANUARY 10, 2014 http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/ tags: Doe v. Ashcroft, FBI, judicial review, National Security Letter,NSL, surveillance by Lauren Harper FBI director, James B. Comey, doesn’t agree with the recommendation that NSL requests be subject to judicial review. The intelligence … Continue reading
Nelson Mandela Condemns George W. Bush and War With Iraq, January 30th, 2003
Nelson Mandela Condemns George W. Bush and War With Iraq, January 30th, 2003 Post Categories: Video | Thursday, December 12, 2013, 10:07 Beijing Print “What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think … Continue reading