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NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
Slavic Studies Panel Addresses “Who Promised What to Whom on NATO Expansion?”
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"There’s this incredible level of absurdity in the classification system. We can show example after example where all it takes is one 'securocrat' to override the better judgement of whole institutions."
https://unredacted.com/…/…/the-u-s-has-way-too-many-secrets/
Engaging North Korea II: Evidence from the Clinton Administration
Perry: U.S. Planned for War during 1994 Nuclear Crisis, but Understood “War Involves Many Casualties”
U.S. Confronted Pyongyang on Missiles but Also Worried a “Starving North Korea” Could Create a “Dangerously Chaotic Situation”
...Declassified Transcripts, Reports and Cables Spell Out U.S. and Allied Concerns, Options
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/…/engaging-north-korea-ii-evidenc…
In this week's FOIA news round-up:
- FOIA’s foreseeable harm standard tested in court
- DIA refuses to release Michael Flynn records
- and privacy tech – circa 1944
More on these stories and more here: https://unredacted.com/…/foias-foreseeable-harm-standard-t…/
“Bolsheviki appear to have control of everything here” moving “faster and faster towards – what?” U.S. diplomats’ and John Reed’s accounts of the 1917 Russian Revolution
https://unredacted.com/…/bolsheviki-appear-to-have-control…/
The latest from the National Security Archive's Nuclear Vault: U.S. Presidents and the Nuclear Taboo
Cold War U.S. Commanders-in-Chief Repeatedly Expressed Aversion to Going Nuclear; Even Eisenhower Changed Thinking
JFK: “Once One Resorts to Nuclear Weapons One Moves into a Whole New World”
...During Vietnam, CIA Analysts Worried Nuke Use Would Expose U.S To “Widespread and Fundamental Revulsion That [It] Had Broken the …Taboo”
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/…/201…/us-presidents-nuclear-taboo
National Security Archive shared ProPublica's post.
Trump White House tried to block public access to visitor logs of five federal offices.
Then Property of the People's Operation 45 sued the administration.
A FOIA Request Shows How Portions of the Proposed Texas Border Wall Could Bisect A Retirement Community, Wildlife Preserves, and More
https://unredacted.com/…/foia-shows-texas-border-wall-coul…/
In Memoriam: Jeffrey T. Richelson, 1949-2017
Author of Essential Reference Works on Top Secrets, Indefatigable User of the Freedom of Information Act, Provider of Primary Sources to Students and the World
The National Security Archive mourns the passing of our most senior fellow, Dr. Jeffrey T. Richelson, prolific Freedom of Information Act requester and critically-praised author of extraordinary reference works on intelligence, nuclear weapons, China, terrorism, military use...s of space, and espionage.
Dr. Richelson passed away on Saturday, November 11, 2017, at his home in Los Angeles after a months-long battle against cancer, according to his brother, Charles. He was 67.
Jeff ranks among the founders of the National Security Archive vision – that systematic Freedom of Information Act requests could force the government to open files that otherwise would remain secret indefinitely, and once open, these files could enrich scholarship and journalism and the public debate on issues like nuclear weapons and spying that very much needed public attention and skepticism.
Jeff never sought the spotlight for open government achievements that would have been impossible without him. But his work lives on, not just in his marvelously useful books but in the cornucopia of sources he made possible for generations of students and experts to come.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/…/memoriam-jeffrey-t-richelson-19…
Unearthing Soviet Secrets in Ukraine’s Archives
https://unredacted.com/…/unearthing-soviet-secrets-in-ukra…/
The FBI consulted its Public Affairs Office, not its Advisory Board, before removing public information on crime in the U.S. from its website.
More on this story and more in our weekly Freedom of Information news round-up:
https://unredacted.com/…/fbi-consults-public-affairs-offic…/
What Would Cheney Advise Trump on North Korea?
https://unredacted.com/…/what-would-cheney-advise-trump-on…/
Engaging North Korea: Evidence from the Bush I Administration
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney Told Allies Military Force Could Jeopardize Initial Diplomatic Strategy with Pyongyang
Declassified Documents Underscore Delicate Balancing Act with Seoul to Align Political, Diplomatic and Security Interests
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Join the National Security Archive's John Prados this Thursday at the International Spy Museum in D.C. for a discussion of his new book, The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness.
The book is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Langley-Into-Hea…/…/1620970880
The National Security Archive is proud to join the coalition urging the finalization and implementation of the "Release to One, Release to All" disclosure policy. Read the letter, spearheaded by Cause of Action Institute and the Sunlight Foundation, here.
CoA Institute teams up with 21 transparency groups to fight for broader disclosure of government records, urges Trump administration to finalize “Release to One, Release to All” FOIA policy.
Records unsealed by the Reporters Committee, National Security Archive, and others last year shed light on an unsuccessful government attempt to prosecute The Chicago Tribune in a World War II leak investigation.
