CONFIDENTIAL – The End of the USSR, 20 Years Later
The End of the USSR, 20 Years Later Moscow Conference Debates Breakup of the Soviet Union Documents Show U.S.-Soviet Cooperation on Regional Conflicts in 1991 Gorbachev Decries Lack of Western Aid to Support Perestroika National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 364 Washington D.C., November 24, 2011 – Marking the 20th anniversary of the breakup…
CIA History of DCI William Colby Finally Qualifies as “Non-Secret”
DCI William Colby speaks during a National Security Council meeting on the situation on Vietnam. April 28, 1975. Clockwise, left to right, Colby; Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Secretary of State; Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State; President Ford: James Schlesinger, Defense Secretary; William Clements, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Vice President Nelson Rockefeller; General George S. Brown,…
Bombing of Cuban Jetliner 30 Years Later
Bombing of Cuban Jetliner 30 Years LaterNew Documents on Luis Posada Posted as Texas Court Weighs Release from Custody Colgate Toothpaste Disguised Plastic Explosives in 1976 Terrorist Attack Confessions, Kissinger Reports, and Overview of Posada Career Posted National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 202 This November 5, 1976, report from FBI director Clarence Kelly…
The Robert Gates File – The Iran-Contra Scandal
Click here for ordering information The Robert Gates File The Iran-Contra Scandal,Confirmation Hearings, and Excerpts from new book Safe for Democracy National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 208 Related article “Robert Gates: A Look at the Record” By Tom Blanton and Peter Kornbluh The New York Times May 27, 1991 Praise for Safe for…
Official Report Released on Mexico’s “Dirty War”
Detainee profile included in Chaper 8 of the Special Prosecutor’s report, which details the role of the DFS in forced disappearances. Official Report Released on Mexico’s “Dirty War” Government Acknowledges Responsibility for Massacres, Torture, Disappearances and Genocide National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 209 Posted – November 21, 2006 For more information contact Kate…
TOP-SECRET FROM THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE-PINOCHET: A Declassified Documentary Obit
Archive Posts Records on former Dictator’s Repression, Acts of Terrorism, U.S. Support National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 212 The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability By Peter Kornbluh A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of 2003 Washington D.C., October 18, 2011 – As Chile prepared to bury General Augusto…
TOP-SECRET -DOCUMENTS IMPLICATE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT IN CHIQUITA TERROR SCANDAL
Company’s Paramilitary Payoffs made through Military’s ‘Convivir’ U.S. Embassy told of “potential” for groups “to devolve into full-fledged paramilitaries” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 217 U.S. intelligence assessments like this 1997 CIA report were consistently pessimistic about the prospects that the Colombian military would take on illegal paramilitary groups. Washington D.C., October 18,…
TOP-SECRET FROM THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE – Who Killed Jaime Garzón?
Jaime Garzón (Photo – Semana.com) Who Killed Jaime Garzón? Document Points to Military/Paramilitary Nexus in Murder of Popular Colombian Comedian Garzón Had Been “Deeply Troubled” by Meeting with Senior Army Officer Ongoing Impunity in 12-year-old Case Spurs Inter-American Commission Complaint National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 360 Washington, D.C., October 13, 2011 – Twelve…
TOP-SECRET – CHE GUEVARA’S HAIR AUCTIONED OFF
CHE GUEVARA’S HAIR AUCTIONED OFF Scrapbook of memorabilia kept by CIA operative who buried Che renews attention to Guevara’s execution, U.S. Role Selling of history, including captured Cuban records, intercepts and communications, raises questions about future access National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 232 Washington, DC, October 3, 2011 – As a lock of Che Guevara’s…
TOP-SECRET – Fujimori on Trial
FUJIMORI ON TRIAL SECRET DIA INTELLIGENCE CABLE TIES FORMER PRESIDENT TO SUMMARY EXECUTIONS National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 237 Washington, DC, October 3, 2011: As disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori goes on trial in Lima, Peru, for human rights atrocities, the National Security Archive posted a declassified Defense Intelligence Agency cable tying him…
TOP-SECRET – Localizar y detener al Dr. Goiburú
Documentos del Archivo del Terror de Paraguay implican a Fuerzas de Seguridad paraguayas y argentinas en el secuestro National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 239 – Part III Editado por Carlos Osorio y Marianna Enamoneta Publicado – Diciembre 21, 2007 Para más información contactar a: Carlos Osorio: (202) 994-7061 cosorio@gwu.edu Peter Kornbluh: (202) 994-7116 peter.kornbluh@gmail.com…
TOP-SECRET – EN EL 15 ANIVERSARIO DEL ARCHIVO DEL TERROR
EN EL 15 ANIVERSARIO DEL ARCHIVO DEL TERROR EL NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE PONE EN LINEA 60,000 REGISTROS DE LA POLICIA SECRETA DEL DICTADOR STROESSNER Bajo convenio de cooperación con la Corte Suprema de Justicia del Paraguay, el Archive lanza simultáneamente en Asunción el Archivo del Terror Digital (ATD) Más de 300,000 documentos digitalizados para fortalecer…
TOP-SECRET – SOUTHERN CONE RENDITION PROGRAM: PERU’S PARTICIPATION
Former Peruvian President General Enrique Morales Bermudez (left) and and his Army chief Pedro Richter Prada (right) are among 140 South American military officers indicted in the investigation. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 244 Washington, D.C., September 21, 2011 – Declassified U.S. documents posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive…
TOP-SECRET – NEW KISSINGER ‘TELCONS’ REVEAL CHILE PLOTTING AT HIGHEST LEVELS OF U.S. GOVERNMENT
NEW KISSINGER ‘TELCONS’ REVEAL CHILE PLOTTING AT HIGHEST LEVELS OF U.S. GOVERNMENT Nixon Vetoed Proposed Coexistence with an Allende Government Kissinger to the CIA: “We will not let Chile go down the drain.” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 255 Washington D.C., September 19, 2011 – On the eve of the thirty-fifth anniversary of…
TOP-SECRET – COMPLETE PENTAGON PAPERS AT LAST!
June 13, 1971: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers. COMPLETE PENTAGON PAPERS AT LAST! All Three Versions Posted, Allowing Side-by-Side Comparison National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 359 Posted – September 16, 2011 Edited By John Prados For more information contact: John Prados – 202/994-7000 The Complete Pentagon PapersA Side-By-Side…
TOP-SECRET – 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 1968 – Verdad Bajo Resguardo
Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (right) and Government Minister Luis Echeverría Alvarez 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 1968 – Verdad Bajo Resguardo National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 258 Mexican army soldiers with detainees from the Tlatelolco massacre, October 2, 1968 Washington D.C., September 17, 2011 – We have arrived at the fortieth anniversary of…
TOP-SECRET – Trujillo Declassified
Citizens of Trujillo gather at a memorial for the victims (Semana.com) Trujillo Declassified Documenting Colombia’s ‘tragedy without end’ Documents Detail U.S. Concerns about Impunity in Major Human Rights Case National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 259 “Justice, Reparation, Memory, Truth”: Stones at the entrance to the memorial for the victims of the Trujillo massacre.…
TOP-SECRET – “Body count mentalities” Colombia’s “False Positives” Scandal, Declassified
Gen. Mario Montoya Uribe announces his resigation as Colombian Army Commander in November 2008. (Photo credit: Semana.com) Body count mentalities” Colombia’s “False Positives” Scandal, Declassified Documents Describe History of Abuses by Colombian Army National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 266 Washington, D.C., September 16, 2011 – The CIA and senior U.S. diplomats were aware…
TOP-SECRET-NEW KISSINGER ‘TELCONS’ REVEAL CHILE PLOTTING AT HIGHEST LEVELS OF U.S. GOVERNMENT
NEW KISSINGER ‘TELCONS’ REVEAL CHILE PLOTTING AT HIGHEST LEVELS OF U.S. GOVERNMENT Nixon Vetoed Proposed Coexistence with an Allende Government Kissinger to the CIA: “We will not let Chile go down the drain.” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 255 m Washington D.C., September 13, 2001- On the eve of the thirty-fifth anniversary of…
TOP-SECRET – FUJIMORI FOUND GUILTY OF HUMAN RIGHTS CRIMES
UJIMORI FOUND GUILTY OF HUMAN RIGHTS CRIMES National Security Archive Posts Declassified Evidence Used in Trial U.S. Documents Implicated Fujimori in Repression, Cover-up National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 274 Washington, DC, September 13 – As a special tribunal in Peru pronounced former president Alberto Fujimori guilty of human rights atrocities, the National Security…
TOP-SECRET – ROBERT F. KENNEDY URGED LIFTING TRAVEL BAN TO CUBA IN ’63
Source: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library ROBERT F. KENNEDY URGED LIFTING TRAVEL BAN TO CUBA IN ’63 Attorney General cited inconsistency with “our views as a free society” State Department overruled RFK proposal to withdraw prohibitions on travel Documents Record First Internal Debate to Lift Ban National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 158 Washington D.C.…
TOP-SECRET-Breaking the Silence The Mexican Army and the 1997 Acteal Massacre
Mexican troops training at a Military Camp in Chiapas. (Photo courtesy of Adolfo Gutiérrez) Breaking the Silence The Mexican Army and the 1997 Acteal Massacre National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 283 Washington, D.C., September, 2011 – As Mexicans debate last week’s Supreme Court ruling vacating the conviction of 20 men for the Acteal massacre, newly…
TOP-SECRET-State Department Cable says Colombian Army Responsible for Palace of Justice Deaths, Disappearances
Colombian security forces lead survivors of the Palace of Justice across the street to the Casa del Florero. [Photo: Revista Semana] Document Introduced as Evidence in Trial of Col. Alfonso Plazas Vega National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 289 Updated – September 2001 Secrets and Lies: The U.S. Embassy and Col. Plazas Vega Col.…
TOP-SECRET-Operation Sofia: Documenting Genocide in Guatemala
Army occupation of Río Azul model village, Nebaj, Quiché. Photograph courtesy of Jean-Marie Simon, Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny. Operation Sofia: Documenting Genocide in Guatemala National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 297 September 10, 2011, Washington, DC – The Guatemalan army, under the direction of military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt, carried out a deliberate…
TOP-SECRET-Archival Evidence of Mexico’s Human Rights Crimes: The Case of Aleida Gallangos
Roberto Antonio Gallangos Cruz, following his detention on July 26, 1968, in the midst of the student protests. The photograph was part of the Mexican intelligence files compiled by DFS agents, and made available in the AGN years later. [Source: AGN, DFS files, 11-235, Legajo 30, Folio 17] Archival Evidence of Mexico’s Human Rights Crimes:…
TOP-SECRET – Operación México: Programa argentino de rendición extraordinaria revelado por documentos desclasificados
En julio de 1978, fuerzas de seguridad argentinas, enviaron documentación a sus pares en Paraguay buscando al fugado Jaime Dri, único testigo sobreviviente de la Operación México. Operación México: Programa argentino de rendición extraordinaria revelado por documentos desclasificados Analista del National Security Archive presenta nueva evidencia ante un tribunal argentino Septiembre 9, 2009, Washington, DC…
TOP-SECRET – Archival Evidence of Mexico’s Human Rights Crimes: The Case of Aleida Gallangos
Roberto Antonio Gallangos Cruz, following his detention on July 26, 1968, in the midst of the student protests. The photograph was part of the Mexican intelligence files compiled by DFS agents, and made available in the AGN years later. [Source: AGN, DFS files, 11-235, Legajo 30, Folio 17] rchival Evidence of Mexico’s Human Rights Crimes:…
TOP-SECRET: KISSINGER BLOCKED DEMARCHE ON INTERNATIONAL ASSASSINATIONS TO CONDOR STATES
Washington, DC, September 1, 2011 – Only five days before a car bomb planted by agents of the Pinochet regime rocked downtown Washington D.C. on September 21, 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions sent to, but never implemented by, U.S. ambassadors in the Southern Cone to warn military leaders there against orchestrating “a…
TOP-SECRET: The United States vs. Rito Alejo del Río
Former Colombian Army Gen. Rito Alejo del Río Rojas (ret.) The United States vs. Rito Alejo del Río Ambassador Cited Accused Colombian General’s Reliance on Death Squads “Systematic” Support of Paramilitaries “Pivotal to his Military Success” Infamous General a “Not-So-Success” Story of U.S. Military Training National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 327 Former U.S.…
TOP-SECRET: THE CIA FILE ON LUIS POSADA CARRILES
T THE CIA FILE ON LUIS POSADA CARRILES A FORMER AGENCY ASSET GOES ON TRIAL IN THE U.S National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 334 Washington, D.C., January 11, 2011 – As the unprecedented trial of Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles begins this week in El Paso, Texas, the National Security Archive today posted…
TOP-SECRET: Landmark Conviction in Colombia’s Palace of Justice Case
Former Colombian Army Col. Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega (ret.) [Photo: Revista Semana] andmark Conviction in Colombia’s Palace of Justice CaseFirst-Ever Criminal Sentence Handed Down in Infamous Army AssaultDeclassified Documents Implicate Colonel, Army, in Civilian Killings, Disappearances National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 319 The Palace of Justice burned to the ground during military efforts…
TOP-SECRET:TO SAVE DAN MITRIONE NIXON ADMINISTRATION URGED DEATH THREATS FOR URUGUAYAN PRISONERS
Dan Mitrione TO SAVE DAN MITRIONE NIXON ADMINISTRATION URGED DEATH THREATS FOR URUGUAYAN PRISONERS In Response Uruguayan Security Forces Launched Death Squads to Hunt and Kill Insurgents National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 324 President Richard M. Nixon Secretary of State William Rogers U.S. ambassador to Uruguay Charles Adair Uruguayan Foreign Minister Jorge Peirano…
TOP-SECRET: The United States vs. Rito Alejo del Río
Former Colombian Army Gen. Rito Alejo del Río Rojas (ret.) The United States vs. Rito Alejo del Río Ambassador Cited Accused Colombian General’s Reliance on Death Squads “Systematic” Support of Paramilitaries “Pivotal to his Military Success” Infamous General a “Not-So-Success” Story of U.S. Military Training National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 327 Former U.S.…
TOP-SECRET: THE CIA FILE ON LUIS POSADA CARRILES
Washington, D.C., August 28, 2011 – As the unprecedented trial of Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles begins this week in El Paso, Texas, the National Security Archive today posted a series of CIA records covering his association with the agency in the 1960s and 1970s. CIA personnel records described Posada, using his codename, “AMCLEVE/15,” as…
27 Years Later, Justice for Fernando García
Family snapshot of Nineth de García, daughter Alejandra and husband Fernando before his abduction on February 18, 1984. Photo from “Guatemala, The Group for Mutual Support,” An Americas Watch Report. [Courtesy of Jean-Marie Simon] Update on the conviction of the Guatemalan police officers responsible for Fernando García’s “forced disappearance” Washington, D.C., February 18, 2011 –…
“Learn from History”, 31st Anniversary of the Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero
Archbishop Romero minutes after he was shot celebrating mass at a small chapel located in a hospital called “La Divina Providencia” at around 6:30pm on March 24, 1980. Washington, D.C., August 27, 2011 – Thirty one years ago tomorrow, El Salvador’s Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot and killed by right-wing assassins seeking to silence…
TOP-SECRET:Los documentos de Chiquita
Este es un fragmento de una nota manuscrita de 2000 en la que se describe que Chiquita pagó a grupos armados por seguridad y no como una extorsión. National Security Archive.Haga clic en la foto para ampliar. Cientos de memorandos internos de la multinacional bananera Chiquita Brands, desclasificados por el National Security Archive, muestran que…
TOP-SECRET: The Chiquita Papers-Banana Giant’s Paramilitary Payoffs Detailed in Trove of Declassified Legal, Financial Documents
March 2000 notes of Chiquita Senior Counsel Robert Thomas indicate awareness that payments were for security services. Banana Giant’s Paramilitary Payoffs Detailed in Trove of Declassified Legal, Financial Documents Evidence of Quid Pro Quo with Guerrilla, Paramilitary Groups Contradicts 2007 Plea Deal Colombian Military Officials Encouraged, Facilitated Company’s Payments to Death Squads More than 5,500…
TOP-SECRET: CIA SUED FOR ‘HOLDING HISTORY HOSTAGE’ ON BAY OF PIGS INVASION
The Houston, a supply ship for the CIA’s invasion force, was sunk by Cuban T-33s on the morning of April 17, 1961 (CIA photo) Washington, D.C., April 14, 2011 – Fifty years after the failed CIA-led assault on Cuba, the National Security Archive today filed a FOIA lawsuit to compel the Agency to release its…
TOP-SECRET FROM THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVES: The Report of the Historical Archives of the National Police
Members of the archive’s National Advisory Board stand with Ana Carla Ericastilla, director of the General Archives of Central America (front, center), Gustavo Meoño (back, right), representatives from several embassies (back), and National Security Archive’s Kate Doyle at release of the report, “Del Silencio a la Memoria” at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala…
TOP SECRET CIA ‘OFFICIAL HISTORY’ OF THE BAY OF PIGS: REVELATIONS
TOP SECRET CIA ‘OFFICIAL HISTORY’ OF THE BAY OF PIGS: REVELATIONS ‘Friendly Fire’ Reported as CIA Personnel Shot at Own Aircraft New Revelations on Assassination Plots, Use of Americans in Combat National Security Archive FOIA Lawsuit Obtains Release of Last Major Internal Agency Compilation on Paramilitary Invasion of Cuba Washington, D.C., August 24, 2011 –…
TOP-SECRET FROM THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVES: Did NATO Win the Cold War?
Documentary supplement to the article “Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall,” by Vojtech Mastny, Foreign Affairs 78, no. 3 (May-June 1999): 176-89 April 23, 1999 This documentary supplement to the article, “Did NATO Win the Cold War? Looking over the Wall,” has been prepared on the occasion of the Washington summit…
TOP-SECRET FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY: POLANDS REVOLUTION
On April 5 Poland celebrates the twelfth anniversary of the signing of the Round Table Agreements — a landmark power-sharing agreement negotiated by representatives of the Communist Polish government, leaders of the long-outlawed union Solidarity, and leaders of the Catholic Church that allowed for the first free elections in Eastern Europe in nearly 50 years. …
TOP-SECRET: The Velvet Revolution Declassified
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2011 – Fifteen years ago today, a modest, officially sanctioned student demonstration in Prague spontaneously grew into a major outburst of popular revulsion toward the ruling Communist regime. At that point the largest protest in 20 years, the demonstrations helped to spark the Velvet Revolution that brought down communism in Czechoslovakia…
TOP-SECRET: The Velvet Revolution Declassified
Washington, D.C., August 18, 2011 – Fifteen years ago today, a modest, officially sanctioned student demonstration in Prague spontaneously grew into a major outburst of popular revulsion toward the ruling Communist regime. At that point the largest protest in 20 years, the demonstrations helped to spark the Velvet Revolution that brought down communism in Czechoslovakia…
TOP-SECRET: KISSINGER CONSPIRED WITH SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO KEEP SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE DARK
Henry Kissinger and Anatoly Dobrynin in the Map Room at the White House, March 17, 1972 (Source: Soviet-American Relations: the Détente Years, 1969-1972 The Kissinger Transcripts: The Top-Secret Talks With Beijing and Moscow Edited by William Burr Washington, DC, August 17, 2011 – Then-national security adviser Henry A. Kissinger colluded with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin…
TOP-SECRET: The INF Treaty and the Washington Summit
Washington D.C., August, 2011 – Previously secret Soviet Politburo records and declassified American transcripts of the Washington summit 20 years ago between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev show that Gorbachev was willing to go much further than the Americans expected or were able to reciprocate on arms cuts and resolving regional…
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