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January 31, 2013
Guatemalan Genocide on Trial
Court Case Begins Today against Former Dictator Rios Montt; 30-year Struggle for Justice leads to Landmark Prosecution

January 18, 2013
Alan Gross Case Spotlights U.S. Democracy Programs in Cuba
Lawsuit Filed by Family Yields Documentation on "Operational" Nature of USAID Effort

January 17, 2013
The Zero Dark Thirty File
Lifting The Government's Shroud Over the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden.

January 8, 2013
Space-Based Early Warning: From MIDAS to DSP to SBIRS
Cold-War DSP System Is Now in the Process of Transition to SBIRS. (UPDATE of November 8, 2007 Post)

December 21, 2012
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Was Not a Grand Design But a Grand Entanglement Resulting from Faulty Intelligence, Excessive Secrecy, and a Paralyzed Leadership, According to Conference of Former Decision-Makers
Proceedings from 1995 Conference Reveal Soviet Motivations and U.S. Internal Reactions to Soviet Move.

December 21, 2012
Lifting the Veil on Colombia's "Emerald Czar"
Declassified Cable Links Víctor Carranza's Alias to 1997 Miraflores Massacre.

December 14, 2012
The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case: The CIA's 1987 Damage Assessment Declassified
New Details on What Secrets Israel Asked Pollard to Steal.

December 12, 2012
U.S. Had Plans for "Full Nuclear Response" In Event President Killed or Disappeared during an Attack on the United States
Both USSR and China Were To Be Targeted Simultaneously, Even If Attack Were Conventional or Accidental, and Regardless of Who Was Responsible.

December 7, 2012
U.S. Court of Appeals Rejects CIA's Motion to Squash Lawsuit on Bay of Pigs History
National Security Archive Freedom of Information Case to Receive Full Hearing.

December 4, 2012
Outdated Agency Regs Undermine Freedom of Information
Majority of Agencies Have Not Updated FOIA Rules to Meet Either Obama's 2009 Order or Congress's 2007 Law.

November 27, 2012
Declassified Documents Trace U.S. Policy Shifts on Use of Commercial Satellite Imagery from 1970s to Today
Lack of Control over Foreign Developments, Desire to Promote American Firms, and Potential Benefits Vied with National Security Concerns.

November 19, 2012
Declassified Pentagon History Provides Hair-Raising Scenarios of U.S. Vulnerabilities to Nuclear Attack through 1970s
Study Specifically Addresses U.S. Strategic Command-Control-and-Communications [C3] Systems.

November 12, 2012
Global Competition and the Deterioration of U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1977-1980
Third World Competition Damaged Superpower Relations at Pivotal Moment, According to Conference of Former Decision-Makers.

November 6, 2012
Declassified 1964 National Intelligence Estimate Predicts India's Bomb But Not Israel's
New Release Reports Country-by-Country Nuclear Capabilities, Fresh Data on Global Proliferation Trends in Mid-1960s.

October 27, 2012
Mikoyan's "Mission Impossible" in Cuba: New Soviet Evidence on the Cuban Missile Crisis

October 24, 2012
The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Submarines and the Risk of Nuclear War

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