National Security Archive

"The heroic excavators of government secrets" - Author Stephen Kinzer on 40 years of the National Security Archive @stephenkinzer @NSArchive bostonglobe.com/2025/12/01/opi…

Americas long standoff with Cuba: Archive senior analyst Peter Kornbluh spoke with CBC Radio cbc.ca/radio/frontbur…

@MuckRock @FOIANate @MarshallProj @NSArchive @LaurenLeHarper of the @FreedomofPress wrote about DHS unlawfully firing a FOIA officer during Sunshine Week. freedom.press/the-classified…

Nuestro artículo ahora en @elpais_america @NSArchive

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship in Argentina. The National Security Archive has published hundreds of declassified U.S. documents over the years on the coup, Operation Condor, and the U.S. role in supporting the regime. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala -- @NSArchive publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence #post-heading" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebulletin.org/2026/02/deny-d…

NEXT TUESDAY 2/17 1PM: please join RS's @KelleyBVlahos @arturojimenezb @NSArchive and Jack Cheevers as they take a deep dive into "Kennedy’s Coup: How Diem’s Assassination Became Our Foreign Policy Albatross" quincyinst.org/events/kennedy…

ICYMI🔔2026 began with EPA FOIA rollbacks that limit how marginalized groups access information about the environmental issues happening in their own backyards. My latest (and more transparency news) for the @NSArchive’s Unredacted: unredacted.com/2026/02/03/mos…

Looking forward to participating in this webinar @QuincyInst on Fabruary 17 at 1:00pm to discuss a new book by Jack Cheevers on the 1963 coup and assassination of Diem in South Vietnam. You can sign-up here. quincyinst.org/events/kennedy…

In pulling out of the UNFCCC, President Trump has sent a clear signal that the US will have no part in multileral debates about climate change. But this is a sharp divergence from past Republican administrations. My latest for the @NSArchive: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

Great new EBB today from Dr. Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi on how the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” set the stage for the “Snatch” operation in Venezuela nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

Time Machine: When Putin Warned Bush About Dangers of Regime Change - By Michael Isikoff spytalk.co/p/time-machine…

Supreme Irony alert: On eve of 2003 invasion of Iraq, Putin warned Bush about the dangers of "regime change" and violating the UN charter. "We should not substitute the law of force for international law," he told Bush in newly declassified transcript of their 3/18/03 phone call. @NSArchive @talk_spy spytalk.co/p/time-machine…

The history of U.S.-Greenland relations is a lot more interesting that most people think and includes the secret deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons there in 1958 and the 1968 crash of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber near Thule Air Base. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

The Bush-Putin Transcripts: How Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush Bonded Over Terrorism nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…

Five years on, the Trump administration is still trying to erase what happened on January 6, 2021. The @NSArchive’s Capitol Riot Sourcebook shines a light on what the government knew and when, and what it did (and didn’t do) about the insurrection. nsarchive.gwu.edu/sourcebook/202…

The Archive's Rachel Santarsiero has a new piece published today in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on how the EPA has been erasing climate data from its website. @BulletinAtomic @RSanta_notClaus thebulletin.org/2026/01/epas-d…

National Security Archive Editorial Director Michael Evans spoke with Natasha Zouves of @NewsNation about CIA behavior control experiments and MKULTRA. youtube.com/watch?v=4XXGSO…

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