UNREDACTED: The National Security Archive Blog

Category: Documents

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

Tips, Tricks, and Why You Should Always Appeal FOIA Denials

February 22, 2016
Oscar Mejía Víctores Dead at 85: Guatemalan dictator dies as human rights trials resume

February 8, 2016
Colbert Uses Declassified Doc to Grill Rumsfeld: “It Is Big”

February 3, 2016
The Special Newsweek Edition “DECLASSIFIED” –Even Further Declassified.

December 28, 2015
Pinochet’s Secret Envoy to Kissinger: Contreras

December 22, 2015
1974 U.S. War Game Launched 54 Nuclear Weapons in Iran to “Save” Country from Soviet Invasion, According to Declassified Document in New National Security Archive Publication

December 15, 2015
JFK Assassination Records and the Enduring Lessons from the Assassination Records Review Board

November 24, 2015
Why The Key Able Archer 83 Report Should Be Released Under UK FOIA

November 18, 2015
First Complete Look at the CIA’s National Clandestine Service Org Chart

October 27, 2015
National Declassification Center Not Yet “Releasing All It Can”

October 13, 2015
CIA Declassifies (11) More IG Report Titles

August 11, 2015
Air Force Intelligence Service Redacts Its Role During Able Archer 83

August 7, 2015
Seven decades after Hiroshima, is there still a nuclear taboo?

August 6, 2015
“America classifies way too much information – and we are all less safe for it”

August 3, 2015
USAF Accidentally Launched Rocket into Mexico’s Mapimi Desert 45 Years Ago

July 13, 2015
Infusing the Anemic Official Record on Osama bin Laden, One Document at a Time

May 5, 2015
Information Asymmetry and Obama’s Hacked Emails.

April 27, 2015
Rwanda Peacekeeping Force Commander Roméo Dallaire: “… the living hell that surrounds us…”

April 16, 2015
Salvadoran General Deported from U.S. for Command Role in Human Rights Crimes During El Salvador Civil War

April 9, 2015
“Redaction Poetry” and Overclassification at the US National Archives

April 8, 2015