UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog

Category: Documents

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

Nuclear Weapons Accidents “Simply a Fact of Life:” Declassified State Department History on Palomares and Thule Clean-up and Negotiations

October 16, 2013
The Cat’s out of the Bag, So Declassify it Already

October 11, 2013
The Department of Defense List of 32 “Accidents Involving Nuclear Weapons”

October 9, 2013
The Must Read 2013 Secrecy Report is Out.

October 7, 2013
CBP Stonewalling on Border Shootings

October 4, 2013
Harold Agnew’s ‘Cold War’ Series Interview

October 4, 2013
Ngo Dinh Diem in the Crosshairs

October 2, 2013
Guatemalan Army Officer Convicted in U.S. Courtroom for Lying about Dos Erres Massacre

October 1, 2013
FOIA Request Filed for National Security Agency Watch List that Included “Threats” MLK, Muhammad Ali, and Senator Church

September 25, 2013
Secret Cold War Documents Reveal NSA Spied on Senators …along with journalists, civil rights leaders, Muhammad Ali and a Washington Post humor columnist.

September 25, 2013
“Intellectual Authors” of Guatemalan Forced Disappearances Convicted.

September 23, 2013
The US and Brazil: A Complicated Partnership

September 20, 2013
Deciphering North Korea’s “Persistent Demand” to be Taken Seriously

September 13, 2013
Kissinger and Chile: The Declassified Record on Regime Change

September 12, 2013
As US-Russian Relations Worsen, A Look Back at the ‘Cold War’ Series

September 6, 2013
FRINFORMSUM 9/5/2013: Secret Budget Reveals DNA Tests Confirm bin Laden’s Death, Operation Hemisphere Far Larger than NSA Surveillance Programs, and More

September 5, 2013
Declassified Documents Provide Evidence of Human Rights Violations in Inocente Orlando Montano’s Immigration Fraud Case

August 30, 2013
CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran’s Coup: The agency finally owns up to its role in the 1953 operation.

August 26, 2013
The Secret History of the U-2: A just-released CIA report pulls the covers off America’s most famous spy plane — and Area 51.

August 26, 2013
The CIA Declassifies Area 51

August 16, 2013