The Censored History of Able Archer 83: Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Trump administration's ongoing bombing of boats at sea could be setting the stage for a direct attack on Venezuela or even an assassination of President Nicolás Maduro, warns @nsarchive.bsky.social analyst Peter Kornbluh. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gunboat_diplomacy

Is the U.S. Planning to Assassinate Maduro? This morning, Peter Kornbluh of the @nsarchive.bsky.social discussed Trump’s "Gunboat Diplomacy" with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gu...

Peter Kornbluh of the @nsarchive.bsky.social and William LeoGrande write in @foreignpolicy.com about what the Trump administration's military buildup against Venezuela means for Cuba. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/m...

Check out this great new article in the Journal of Strategic Studies by @nsarchive.bsky.social research assistant Walker Gargagliano: "A bolt from the blue: NATO’s misconception of Soviet military strategy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this great new article in the Journal of Strategic Studies by @nsarchive.bsky.social research assistant Walker Gargagliano: "A bolt from the blue: NATO’s misconception of Soviet military strategy" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Peter Kornbluh of the @nsarchive.bsky.social and William LeoGrande write in @foreignpolicy.com about what the Trump administration's military buildup against Venezuela means for Cuba. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/m...

It's a good day to re-read this 2019 piece from @foianate.bsky.social and @nsarchive.bsky.social's Tom Blanton.

Dick Cheney Declassified: The VICE File (click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

ICYMI: The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later www.youtube.com/shorts/7sEiw...

Let's run through some of the highlights from the Gottlieb Church Committee testimony that we published earlier today at the @nsarchive.bsky.social (thread)

The CIA's chief drug and poison maker, in his own words. Yesterday, the @nsarchive.bsky.social published the long-secret transcripts of Sidney Gottlieb's testimony before the staff of the Senate Chuch Committtee. Here's a quick summary. www.youtube.com/shorts/7sEiw...

The CIA's chief drug and poison maker, in his own words. Yesterday, we published the long-secret transcripts of Sidney Gottlieb's testimony before the staff of the Senate Chuch Committtee. Here's a quick summary from senior analyst Michael Evans. www.youtube.com/shorts/7sEiw...

Gottlieb described LSD as “otherworldly,” adding that it “gave you propioceptions,” meaning you were “perceiving feeling in yourself as opposed to feelings of things outside yourself, like seeing a door as opposed to feeling something inside your own body.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Other parts of the deposition focused on Gottlieb’s involvement in CIA assassination plots, especially those targeting Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and its support to the activities of other federal agencies through a project called MHCHAOS. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

In secret Senate testimony from October 1975, Gottlieb said the CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, saying “it was probably not a high pay-off program.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Top Secret Testimony of the CIA's MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Top Secret Testimony of the CIA's MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

This great New York Times article from a few days ago links to several important revelations from the National Security Archive. Links to those resources below. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...

ICYMI: Special shoutout to @nsarchive.bsky.social alumna @laurenleharper.bsky.social featured on @lastweektonight.com's episode on Presidential Libraries!

The United States and Greenland: Episodes in Nuclear History, 1957-1968, Part II: The B-52 Crash and Its Impact nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The Archive's @rsanta.bsky.social talks about her new report on Disappearing Climate Data www.youtube.com/shorts/BNDSe...

Wrote for the @nsarchive.bsky.social about how the Trump administration has significantly ramped up its efforts to remove and alter critical climate resources and data this summer: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Work with @nsarchive.bsky.social or other NGOS in Washington, DC, on international peace & security issues. Apply to @scovillepf.bsky.social by Oct 20 for the spring 2026 semester.

Disappearing Data, Part II: Distorted Science and Deregulation White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Work with @nsarchive.bsky.social or other NGOS in Washington, DC, on international peace & security issues. Apply to @scovillepf.bsky.social by Oct 20 for the spring 2026 semester.

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

Global Trends reports have been published every 4 years since the ‘90s, and provide detailed frameworks of possible future scenarios like climate change challenges and pandemic risks. You can read about these reports in this @nsarchive.bsky.social posting: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Gabbard just eliminated the 2025 Global Trends report—probably one of the most objective and comprehensive intelligence products that helps policymakers craft national security strategy in uncertain futures. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings: Revisiting the Record (click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The "Final Report" also included large, color-coded maps depicting the extent of the physical damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

One newly published record is the “Final Report” of the Manhattan Project’s “Investigative Group,” which includes a detailed medical study on the injuries caused by the explosions along with photographic reports on blast and fire damage. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/334...

80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings: Revisiting the Record New Archival Evidence on Deadly Radiation, Blast and Fire Effects in Hiroshima and Nagasaki nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The intrepid Dr. Bill Burr found these huge, color-coded maps of atomic bomb damage in Hiroshima and Nagasaki folded up inside a box at the National Archives.

80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings: Revisiting the Record New Archival Evidence on Deadly Radiation, Blast and Fire Effects in Hiroshima and Nagasaki nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The National Security Archive is looking for a Social Media and Communications Intern! Follow this link for more information: nsarchive.gwu.edu/archive-look...

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"¿Qué pasó con ese enorme archivo lleno de documentos sobre atrocidades contra los derechos humanos que descubrieron en Guatemala?" Respuestas, de @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

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Invisible, silenciado y casi abandonado: El Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala en su vigésimo aniversario nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

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Invisible, silenciado y casi abandonado: El Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala en su vigésimo aniversario nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...

I dug through the JFK assassination papers to see what I could learn about CIA operations in Colombia during the 1960s and 70s. Here's what I found. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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Interesting declassified documents and analysis from @nsarchive.bsky.social: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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Other records published today show how the CIA manipulated the Colombian news media through covert propaganda operations to secretly plant information in the press. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Another group of CIA records tells the story of a high-level defector from Castro’s Cuba who for several years ran a covert CIA listening post in Bogotá targeting the office of Novosti, the Soviet news agency that was closely associated with the KGB. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

One group of CIA records published today describes how covert surveillance of a Soviet agent in Mexico City in 1968 led to intelligence on the “entire clandestine leadership” of the Colombian Communist Party and the FARC. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Our new posting looks at what we have learned about CIA operations in Colombia during the 1960s from the newly declassified JFK assassination records. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...