UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog

Category: Documents

Includes “Document Friday” posts as well as other posts that focus on government documents

Why Senator Rockefeller Will Lift his Hold on the FOIA Improvement Act

December 7, 2014
The Soviet Battlefield Development Plan

November 20, 2014
CIA Hides Overclassification Recommendations with “Withhold it Because you Want to” Exemption Five; Senate FOIA Exemption Five Reform Vote on Thursday

November 18, 2014
Annals of Overclassification

November 18, 2014
Iran-Contra: Who Leaked Ronald Reagan’s 1985-1986 Arms-for-Hostages Deals?

November 4, 2014
Vietnamese Struggle With Their Past: History of the Southern Resistance

October 31, 2014
First Page of Paramount Able Archer 83 Report Declassified by British Archive; Remainder of “The Detection of Soviet Preparations for War Against NATO” Withheld.

October 27, 2014
Gough Whitlam, Former Australian PM who Criticized 1972 US Bombing of Hanoi, Dies at 98

October 22, 2014
David Greenglass’ False Grand Jury Testimony Against his Sister Ethel Rosenberg “The Smoking Gun” in Espionage Case, Still Classified

October 16, 2014
Declassified U.S. Documents Help Fill Void Left by Thailand’s Silence on 38th Anniversary of Thammasat University Massacre

October 10, 2014
Open Government Advocates Encourage Classification Reform Committee to Improve the MDR Process and “Rescue Declassification”

September 30, 2014
The FOIA Request that Cost Agency Employee Jeffrey Scudder His Job Finally Results in CIA Posting Trove of Studies in Intelligence Articles

September 22, 2014
Archival Neglect: Flooding of FBI Archives Destroyed Hundreds of Thousands of Pages of Files Related to Civil Rights Movement History

September 16, 2014
The CIA Misapplies FOIA Exemptions to Continue its Covert Attack on Mandatory Declassification Review. And Why it Matters.

August 19, 2014
Black Holes in the Predecisional Universe: Agencies Gain a New Justification for Secrecy

August 6, 2014
OGIS Begins Posting its Final Response Letters

August 1, 2014
National Security Agency Refuses to Release Documents on Mysterious Death of UN Secretary-General Over 50 Years Ago

July 16, 2014
Decades-Old Rwandan Genocide Documents Withheld under B(5) FOIA Exemption, Researchers Forced to look Abroad for Transparency

July 10, 2014
Making Maliki and Karzai: How Washington Produced Unhelpful Allies in the Middle East

July 8, 2014
The Senate Tackles B(5) FOIA Reform

June 24, 2014