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CIA Covert Ops: Kennedy Assassination Records Lift Veil of Secrecy

Mar 19, 2025 | Briefing Book](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2025-03-19/cia-covert-ops-kennedy-assassination-records-lift-veil-secrecy)

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DON'T SHRED ON ME!  

USAID documents destruction breaks the law,  

according to National Security Archive

Mar 12, 2025 | News](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2025-03-12/dont-shred-me-usaid-documents-destruction-breaks-law-according-national-security)

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The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See

Feb 28, 2025 | Briefing Book](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project-intelligence/2025-02-28/climate-intelligence)

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The Anwar al-Awlaki File, Explained

Feb 14, 2025 | Briefing Book](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2025-02-14/anwar-al-awlaki-file-explained)

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Disappearing Data:  

Trump Administration Removing Climate Information from Government Websites

Feb 6, 2025 | Briefing Book](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project-foia/2025-02-06/disappearing-data-trump)

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The Panama Canal Treaty Declassified

Feb 3, 2025 | Briefing Book](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2025-02-03/panama-canal-treaty-declassified)

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Nuclear Proliferation and the “Nth Country Experiment”

Jan 23, 2025 | Briefing Book](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2025-01-23/nuclear-proliferation-and-nth-country-experiment)

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Carter and Cuba: A Legacy of Dedicated Diplomacy Toward Normalization

Jan 15, 2025 | Briefing Book](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2025-01-15/carter-and-cuba-legacy-dedicated-diplomacy-toward-normalization)

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Jimmy Carter: A Declassified Obituary

Dec 29, 2024 | Briefing Book](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2024-12-29/jimmy-carter-declassified-obituary)

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CIA Behavior Control Experiments Focus of New Scholarly Collection

Dec 23, 2024 | Briefing Book](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2024-12-23/cia-behavior-control-experiments-focus-new-scholarly)

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[CIA Boss Bugged Himself, French Embassy Break-in & Other Recycled Tales in New JFK Documents Release](https://www.spytalk.co/p/cia-boss-bugged-himself-french-embassy "(opens in a new window)")

_SpyTalk_

Mar 19, 2025

[Unsolved Mystery: The Bombing of Cuba’s Embassy in Washington, DC](https://www.spytalk.co/p/unsolved-mystery-the-bombing-of-cubas "(opens in a new window)")

_SpyTalk_

Mar 13, 2025

[The US President Is Right: It’s Time To Bring Russia In From The Cold – OpEd](https://www.eurasiareview.com/13032025-the-us-president-is-right-its-time-to-bring-russia-in-from-the-cold-oped/ "(opens in a new window)")

_Eurasia Review_

Mar 13, 2025

[USAID Official Orders Destrction of Classified Records, Prompting Legal Action](https://slguardian.org/usaid-official-orders-destruction-of-classified-records-prompting-legal-action/#google_vignette "(opens in a new window)")

_Sri Lanka Guardian_

Mar 13, 2025

[The Nation’s Archivist Should Not Be Political](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/nations-archivist-should-not-be-political-nara-national-archives-records-administration-shogan-wilson-weinstein-trump "(opens in a new window)")

_The Bulwark_

Mar 12, 2025

[USAID keeping reports secret out of fear of Trump retaliation](https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/usaid-keeping-reports-secret-out-of-fear-of-trump-retaliation/ "(opens in a new window)")

_Freedom of the Press Foundation_

Mar 9, 2025

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The Short-lived NATO-Russia Honeymoon

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Apr 4, 2024

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Global Competition and the Deterioration of U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1977-1980

](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB402/)

Nov 12, 2012

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Bordaberry Condemned for 1973 Coup

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Mar 30, 2010

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Authors' Roundtable with Robert S. McNamara

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Apr 27, 1999

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The Cuban missile crisis 40th anniversary (News Release, October 12, 2002)

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Oct 12, 2002

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Senate Threatens First Amendment

](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20000929/)

Sep 29, 2000

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U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time

](https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear-Target-List-Declassified-First-Ever/)

Dec 22, 2015

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Aug 9, 2024

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