The DEA and Ayotzinapa: Intercepted Text Messages Contain Critical Information About the Night in Iguala (Click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

⭐️ Drop Site News, with Unmute Humanity, has launched the Gaza Journalist Fund to help 29 vetted reporters evacuate Gaza City and survive displacement in the south. Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com

el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

I question the editorial judgement of presenting the paramilitarization of armed groups in Michoacán without a strong emphasis on precisely where 70-90% of the weapons are coming from and where the knowhow for explosive-laden drones came from and when it started. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

“What we’re seeing under a second Trump administration is an unprecedented, rapid deletion and distortion of climate data and resources,” climate change researcher @rsanta.bsky.social told @laurenleharper.bsky.social.

"Guatemala's celebrated police archive is a shadow of its former self—a hollowed-out institution operating at drastically reduced levels that has little contact with the public it is supposed to serve." Read the new report on the fragile state of Guatemala's AHPN. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

New report with @katidoyle.bsky.social on 20 years of Guatemala's Historical Archive of the National Police nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

Israel's war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 Palestinians since October 2023. Israel is deliberately starving the people of Gaza while bombing and shooting the Palestinians who come to food distribution sites. To defend that is a massive moral failure.

NEW: We spoke with the families of some of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared to El Salvador in March. Horror stories are already emerging. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I have so many questions

The Trump administration is making it increasingly difficult to obtain federal records and shed light on how it operates. FOIA is "certainly on life support," Lauren Harper told @davelevinthal.com in @msnbc.com.

As federal spending to prepare and respond to the growing threat of weather-related disasters is being slashed, a massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to arms contractors is underway. [1/2] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As many of us have been saying forever: one of the problems with insisting the state focus on targeting “criminals,” as democrats always do, is that criminals are ipso facto whoever the state decides they are—including, eventually, you.

My latest @nsarchive.bsky.social piece is a 45-document deep dive tracing 25+ years of US intel agencies analyzing climate threats--from Arctic ice melt to global food, water, and migration risks. But the docs also reveal a deeply siloed approach to climate intel: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Journalists Association of El Salvador estimates that 40 journalists have had to leave the country in the last month as President Nayib Bukele has escalated his crackdown on his critics. Several are reporters at ICIJ media partner @elfaro.net.

I wrote about death and disappearance at the border, and the bipartisan fascism of the US deportation/detention machine.

Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Lo más reciente del Archivo de Seguridad Nacional sobre la colaboración larga y secreta entre México y los EEUU. @nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...

JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico (click below to read the documents and analysis from @cldorfman.bsky.social) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

23 years ago I published my first @nsarchive.bsky.social electronic briefing book on Colombia. It's way too long (three volumes!), but some of the documents were featured in the @nytimes.com later that month, so all the work was worth it! Gift link below: www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/w...

What does it mean to represent a ghost in court? My latest at @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Archive is troubled to learn that President Trump yesterday fired all nine members of the State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a statutory body that has operated without presidential interference for over 20 years. history.state.gov/about/hac/in...

This is an amazing and important resource. Disappearing people is not “immigration policy.” It’s government repression.

Latin America has a long and brutal legacy of enforced disappearance. But there's an equally long legacy of human rights defenders who have fought back. Join us next Wednesday to hear from Mercedes Doretti @eaafoficial.bsky.social, Juan E. Mendez, and @marcelaturati.bsky.social.

Each one of us knows,” Manal said, “that what’s happening in Gaza is going to happen in the West Bank.” Beautiful piece and beautiful images by @benehrenreich.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...

@nsarchive.bsky.social continues to mine the recent release of JFK docs. Today's posting by Peter and Arturo publishes key documents related to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Peter Kornbluh from the @nsarchive.bsky.social and I were interviewed for this week's episode of the History as it Happens podcast. We discuss the JFK files and CIA covert operations. You can listen to it for free here: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-jfk-files

Here it is in English: El Faro’s blockbuster report on the corrupt system that’s grown out of Bukele’s mass detention policy in El Salvador, especially relevant now given his partnership with the Trump Admin: elfaro.net/en/202505/el...

The UK has sanctioned Alejandro Giammattei, María Consuelo Porras, José Curruchiche, Cinthia Monterroso and three more people whose actions have allegedly undermined democracy and the rule of law in #Guatemala. They will be subject to travel bans and asset freezes. www.gov.uk/government/n...

BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined. Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

SpyTalk: "The most complete, useful and quickly digestible first-out-of the-gate packages you might not have seen came from the National Security Archive, a private research organizaton at [GWU] that specializess in...unearthing long classified Cold War-era documents." www.spytalk.co/p/cia-boss-b...

The National Security Archive has done a quick review of the new JFK papers and found not bombshells about the assassination but other revelations about CIA operations in Latin America & around the world in the 60s, including breaking into the French embassy in DC. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

New Posting: Kennedy Assassination Records Lift Veil of Secrecy on CIA Covert Ops (click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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…and erases history

The National Security Archive sued the State Department for access to cables from the Dissent Channel, which are formal critiques of US policy by employees of the State Department. Click here to read more about that: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

"This month the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project published a selection of materials and webpages relating to environmental justice and climate change that have been deleted from federal agency websites." Click below to read. www.salon.com/2025/02/27/i...

"As Henry Kissinger told President Gerald Ford, this is not an issue we want to confront the world on. It looks like pure colonialism." The Archive's Peter Kornbluh speaks with PBS about the Panama Canal treaty. Click below to read. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Argentina's Dirty War was featured by @60minutes.bsky.social in a story on the military's death flights used to "disappear" thousands of people. The National Security Archive published extensively on U.S. support for the military dictatorship. Click here to read: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Extraordinary work on Ayotzinapa case below from Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social and her colleagues at the National Security Archive nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/mexico-...

It would be easier to assess the potential risks (and scale) of the CIA's alleged pivot to focus on narcotics if its budget weren't classified. (Luckily the CIA's never done anything wrong in Latin America before, so why worry?)

Many of the people waiting to cross the border, some with appointments for asylum hearings, are now stranded. The shelters that received US aid to provide for them are now cut off. It’s a double whammy. Maya Averbuch went to Juarez for this report. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Peter Kornbluh on the history of the Panama Canal treaty negotiations and why it matters now. www.youtube.com/shorts/LhM3a...

National Security Archive senior analyst Peter Kornbluh: “As the U.S. threatens a return to an era of gunboat diplomacy in Panama, the historical record of the Canal Zone negotiations reflects the pragmatic promise of actual diplomacy to advance U.S. interests.” @nsarchive.bsky.social

As usual, @nsarchive.bsky.social's timing is *chef's kiss* Declassified NSC memo shows Kissinger told Ford that continued U.S. control over the Panama Canal “looks like pure colonialism”

I worked at the ex-ESMA in 2016, which was facing an assault at the time from Macri's government. The resilience of human rights and memory workers in Argentina is a testament to their unwavering commitment to non-repetition of state violence. ❤️

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Jimmy Carter: A Declassified Obituary nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

New piece up on @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...