Category Archives: National Security Archive
The CIA and Signals Intelligence
The CIA and Signals Intelligence Formerly Top-Secret Multi-Volume History Details Spy Agency’s Conflicts with NSA and Military over SIGINT Role Additional Declassified Documents Describe CIA Domestic and Foreign SIGINT Activity CIA Role Often Put It in Direct Competition with NSA, … Continue reading
National Security Archive Sues State Department Over Kissinger Telcons
Archive Sues State Department Over Kissinger Telcons 700 Transcripts Still Withheld, Eight Years after Appeal Threat of suit in 2001 led to recovery of Kissinger documents Digital National Security Archive has published 15,000 to date National Security Archive Electronic Briefing … Continue reading
The Merchant of Death’s Account Book
The Merchant of Death’s Account Book Declassified Documents Reveal More Information on Government’s Opportunistic Relationship with World’s Biggest Arms Smuggler, Sarkis Soghanalian U.S. Cooperated with Arms Dealer Despite Record of Smuggling, Weapons Sales to Saddam Hussein, and Reported Ties to … Continue reading
US Senate Report on CIA Torture
Torture Report Finally Released Senate Intelligence Committee Summary of CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program Concludes CIA Misled Itself, Congress, the President about Lack of Effectiveness Committee Details 20 Most Frequent CIA Claims that Torture Stopped Terrorist Plots, Cites CIA’s Own … Continue reading
CIA Reactions to JFK Assassination Included Fear of Possible Strike Against U.S.; Desire to ‘Bond’ With LBJ
CIA Reactions to JFK Assassination Included Fear of Possible Soviet Strike against U.S.; Desire to “Bond” with LBJ Web Posting Features New Articles from The CIA’s In-House Journal, “Studies in Intelligence” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 493 Posted … Continue reading
Iran-Contra Revisited: New Declassified Documents Revealing Serial Criminality
Iran-Contra Revisited New Book Places Reagan at Center of 1980s Scandal Lack of Legal or Legislative Closure to Affair Opened Path to Future Presidential Abuses Narrative Spotlights Iranian, Israeli, Nicaraguan Perspectives National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 483 Posted … Continue reading
Studies by Once-Top-Secret Government Entity Portrayed Terrible Costs of Nuclear War
Studies by Once Top Secret Government Entity Portrayed Terrible Costs of Nuclear War After Briefing on Likely Death Tolls, JFK Remarked: “And We Call Ourselves the Human Race” Net Evaluation Subcommittee Nevertheless Initially Projected U.S. Prevailing in Global Nuclear Conflict … Continue reading