UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog

Category: Documents

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

Growing FOIA Backlogs Should Prompt More Automatic Declassification, Proactive Disclosure; DNI Haines Says Too Much Classified Info Hurts National Security; Obama Presidential Records Now Subject to FOIA, and Much More in this Week’s Super-Sized FRINFORMSUM 1/27/2022

January 27, 2022
New “After Ayotzinapa” Podcast Episode Investigates US Connection to 2014 Mass Iguala Kidnapping

January 24, 2022
Episode 1 of “After Ayotzinapa” Podcast Premieres Tomorrow, January 15

January 14, 2022
New NSArchive/Reveal News Podcast Coming 1/15, a New Domestic Terrorism Unit, and More: FRINFORMSUM 1/13/2022

January 13, 2022
Weekend Read: Social Media, USPS Surveillance, and the Capitol Attack

January 7, 2022
2021 Documents in Review: Earliest Known 2001 Afghanistan Strategy Paper

December 21, 2021
2021 Documents in Review: Anatoly Chernyaev’s 1981 Diary

December 15, 2021
2021 Documents in Review: Earliest Known CIA Plot to Assassinate Raul Castro

December 10, 2021
2021 Documents in Review: Document Details Averted Meeting Between Kissinger and Argentina Military Ahead of 1976 Coup

December 3, 2021
New DNSA Collection Documents CIA Covert Operations During The Eisenhower Years

December 1, 2021
2021 Documents in Review: Declassified State Department Review of the Havana Syndrome

November 19, 2021
2021 Documents in Review: State Department Employees Sign Dissent Channel Calling on Agency to Denounce January 6 Riot

November 12, 2021
President Biden: Don’t Let the Clock Run Out on Critical Transparency Fixes

September 14, 2021
New Digital National Security Archive Collection Features Thousands of Declassified Memos from Donald Rumsfeld’s Last Two Years in Office

May 28, 2021
Advocates push Biden for swift action on Accountability 2021 recommendations

March 19, 2021
Coalition Asks Biden to do More for FOIA, Transparency: FRINFORMSUM 2/25/2021

February 25, 2021
FOIA Shows Weak Enforcement of Endangered Species Act, Biden Issues First National Security Directive, CDC Report on the “Havana Syndrome”, and More: FRINFORMSUM 2/4/2021

February 4, 2021
Capitol Riot Documents, White House Visitor Logs are Back, Trump’s Presidential Library Website Launched, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM 1/22/2021

January 22, 2021
New Year, New Transparency Trouble-Spots To Watch: FRINFORMSUM 1/7/2021

January 7, 2021
New Digital National Security Archive Collection Publishes Thousands of Declassified “Snowflakes” from Rumsfeld’s Pentagon

December 18, 2020