
National Security Archive Unredacted: FOIA Tip No. 4—Getting Information about Someone Else, Not Always Easy, http://bit.ly/4ZuRsb
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So you want to know whether your favorite movie star has a hidden past? You want to find out if your parents got into trouble before you were born? You can send a FOIA request for someone else’s ...

National Security Archive Unredacted: Archive Senior Fellow John Prados Talks Secrecy in Oregon, http://bit.ly/6ckIM4
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Appearing before a standing-room-only crowd in Portland, Oregon, last week, National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados spoke on the perils of government secrecy. At the event sponsored by the ...

National Security Archive FOIA Coordinator Yvette Chin appears on NPR's On The Media, http://bit.ly/8HEpjV

National Security Archive Document Friday on Unredacted blog: The 1978 World Cup in Argentina, Part I
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Today, the 1978 World Cup hosted by Argentina is widely remembered for the victorious Argentine team’s “alleged stalling tactics” and the refusal of the defeated Dutch players to honor their hosts at the post-championship ceremony. ...

National Security Archive New from our Unredacted blog: The State of the State Secrets Privilege
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Earlier this week, I attended an all-day conference on “The State of the State Secrets Privilege,” presented by the American University Washington College of Law Collaboration on Government Secrecy.

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Secret messages from senior Soviet officials to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl after the fall of the Berlin Wall led directly to Kohl's famous

National Security Archive New on our Unredacted blog: The China-Pakistan Nuclear Connection Revealed
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An extraordinary article in The Washington Post on November 13, 2009, by R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick broke open the story of Chinese-Pakistani secret nuclear technology sharing during the 1970s and ...

National Security Archive New on our Unredacted blog: LA Times on the Anniversary of El Salvador Jesuit Killings, http://bit.ly/3qG1Om
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A Los Angeles Times article published today features Archive Analyst Kate Doyle discussing the upcoming trial of Salvadoran officials accused in the 1987 assassination of six Jesuit priests in San Salvador. According to the article,

National Security Archive Kate Doyle talks to the LA Times about declassified US document evidence in Spanish trial against Salvadoran officials accused of killing priests 20 years ago.
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A procession is held to mark the 20th anniversary of the slayings of six Jesuit priests and two others in San Salvador. (Jose Cabezas / AFP/Getty Images / November 14, 2009)

National Security Archive Right to Information is the Right to Justice: Declassified Documents & the Assassination of the Jesuits in El Salvador, http://bit.ly/1doPLo
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Twenty years ago today, Salvadoran soldiers entered the campus of the renowned University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador, and brutally murdered the university’s rector, Ignacio Ellacuría, and five other Jesuit priests, along with their housekeeper and her daughter. ...

National Security Archive Still Orphans of the Cold War? President Obama's Decision to Postpone Meeting the Dalai Lama in Historical Context, http://bit.ly/2AgAZ3

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At the Archive, we have lots of practice reading declassified government documents.Since we will be using this space to share with you some documents from our trove of government releases, we thought ...

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Three years before al Qaeda’s attacks on the United States on 9/11, U.S. officials detected an alarming shift in the ideological stance of Taliban leader Mullah Omar toward pan-Islamism – a change that portended a burgeoning alliance between the Afghan regime and Osama bin Laden.

National Security Archive It's Document Friday on our Unredacted blog: “Some Views of the Gorbachev Era,” http://bit.ly/1FqKh4
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Western analysts doubted the early assertion by Mikhail Gorbachev’s former roommate and close friend, Zdenek Mlynar, that the new General Secretary of the USSR was “a reformer who considered politics a means and the needs of the people an end,” according to a 1985 biographical report used by the CIA...

National Security Archive New from Unredacted blog: 50 Years at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: An OAS Policy Roundtable
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On the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights earlier this week, representatives from international organizations, civil society, and academia gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of the inter-American system and reflect on the ongoing challenges. ...






















