
National Security Archive New on our Unredacted Blog: Obama Executive Order on Classification: Reflects Public’s Comments, Makes a Commitment to Declassify Hundreds of Millions of Pages of Historical Materials, Sets the Stage for Reduction in Overclassification
Obama Executive Order on Classification: Reflects Public’s Comments, Makes a Commitment to Declassif
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By now you may have heard that President Obama this week issued a new Executive Order governing Classified National Security Information. Elsewhere details have been reported about why the President had to take action on classification by December 31, 2009. ...

National Security Archive New on our Unredacted blog: Document Friday: Secret Santa, http://bit.ly/7Pt6nA

National Security Archive New on our Unredacted blog - Document Friday: Afghanistan, "Heading Towards a Catastrophe" before 9/11? http://bit.ly/5EFHik
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On April 27, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell read a memo entitled “Preventing an Afghan Humanitarian Situation Crisis.” It warned that Afghanistan was “verge of a widespread and precipitous famine,” ...

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Kyoto Redux? Obama's Challenges at Copenhagen Echo Clinton's at Kyoto:
An Electronic Briefing Book by Bob Wampler, http://bit.ly/7YYI63
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The challenges facing President Obama in the Copenhagen climate negotiations this week directly parallel the domestic and diplomatic constraints that troubled the Clinton administration more than a decade ago in the Kyoto talks, according to internal U.S. ...

National Security Archive New on our Unredacted blog: Truth Commission Blames Colombian State for Palace of Justice Tragedy, http://bit.ly/6sFhN4
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In its final report issued today, Colombia’s Truth Commission on the Palace of Justice asked former President Belisario Betancur (1982-1986) and other members of his government to accept responsibility ...

National Security Archive Fuchs Guest Blogging on American Constitution Society Blog
ACSblog | Open Government: Can the Obama Administration Really Make a Difference? | American Constit
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By Meredith Fuchs. Ms. Fuchs is the General Counsel of the National Security Archive, a private, non-governmental research institution located at George Washington University. A recent discussion on NPR's "Morning Edition" with Ms. ...

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New on our Unredacted Blog: Grandchild of the Disappeared: "The Documents Enable Us to Touch Them ...." Carlos Osorio's personal and moving account of his testimony concerning Operacion Mexico and meeting with the children of the disappeared. During
the dirty war carried out by the military dictatorship in Argentina in...
the 1970s, many of the children of the disappeared were taken from
their parents and either handed over to relatives, given to childless
families within the Army or state security services, or left at the
doors of orphanages across the country. The Grandmothers have launched
an aggressive national campaign to try and find these now-adult
grandchildren.
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I get a call at my hotel room. “Someone wants to talk to you,” says the concierge. Then Sabrina is on the line. “We are all down here, I brought the family,” she says.

National Security Archive New on our Unredacted blog: FOIA Tip 6—The FOIA Process in a Nutshell, http://bit.ly/7ABHRb
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So what happens after you craft that great FOIA letter requesting those docs that will make your article/dissertation/book/life sooo much more interesting? That’s what we’ll be looking at today, the FOIA Process. Follow along with the lovely chart on the right.

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Archive and White House Settle Lawsuit Concerning Millions of Missing Bush White House E-mails
Obama Administration Agrees to Restore Additional Days of Bush White House Records
National Security Archive and White House reach agreement for restoration of missing Bush White Hous
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The National Security Archive (the Archive), Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the White House and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) today entered into an agreement ...

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Kennedy Considered Supporting Coup in South Vietnam, August 1963
Newly Declassified Audio Tapes Reveal JFK Saw Only Negative Choices
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At a critical moment in August 1963, President John F. Kennedy saw only negative choices on Vietnam, according to new audio recordings and documentation posted today by the National Security Archive. Recently declassified tapes of secret White House meetings on the possibility of U.S. ...

National Security Archive New on our Unredacted Blog: Listening to Kennedy an account of what it is like to listen to historic presidential audiorecordings http://bit.ly/68T7I2
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Today the National Security Archive released a an electronic briefing book on its website entitled: “Kennedy Considered Supporting Coup in South Vietnam, August 1963, Newly Declassified Audio Tapes Reveal JFK Saw Only Negative Choices.”

National Security Archive New on our Unredacted blog - Document Friday: Juanita Castro Speaks Her Mind, http://bit.ly/7Qc35M
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This week’s “hot doc” is a December 1969 State Department memcon entitled “Cuban Exile Action-Groups – Plans to Invade Cuba,” which offers a snapshot into the personality ...

National Security Archive New on Unredacted Blog-- A Personal Account of Testifying at a Guatemalan Genocide Trial by Kate Doyle
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The Spanish National Court heard testimony from three expert witnesses in the Guatemalan genocide case last week, including my analysis of Army documents containing evidence of the military’s scorched earth tactics that decimated Mayan communities during 1982. ...

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30th Anniversary of NATO's Dual-Track Decision: The Road to the
Euromissiles Crisis & the End of the Cold War, http://bit.ly/5deB5n
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Thirty years ago, on 12 December 1979, NATO defense and foreign ministers made a landmark decision designed to unify the alliance, but which also contributed to the collapse of detente and helped provide an agenda for the end of the Cold War. ...




















