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CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran’s Coup: The agency finally owns up to its role in the 1953 operation. 26 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
This posting also appears on ForeignPolicy.com. Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country’...
The Secret History of the U-2: A just-released CIA report pulls the covers off America’s most famous spy plane — and Area 51. 26 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
This posting also appears on ForeignPolicy.com. On February 21, 1955, Richard M. Bissell, a senior CIA official, wrote a check on an agency account for $1.25 million and mailed it to the home of Kelly...
The CIA Declassifies Area 51 16 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
The CIA has just declassified Area 51, thanks to a FOIA request submitted by Archivist Jeffrey Richelson. By responding to the Archive’s FOIA request with a less redacted version of the CIA history, ‘...
FRINFORMSUM 8/15/2013: Answers for Brazil, ‘No Spy’ Pacts with Germany, and a Confusing report from the National Declassification Center. 16 Aug 2013 | 01:40 am
John Kerry’s first visit to Brazil as Secretary of State might be a bumpy one thanks to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance practices. Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota...
Revisiting the Radiation Files 13 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
Nuclear technician and recovering cancer patient Charles Varnadore got relocated to an office full of “drums of radioactive waste” after complaining to his Oak Ridge National Laboratory bosses about s...
FRINFORMSUM 8/9/2013: NSA Revelations Might Play a Part in Upcoming German Elections, NSC Records Still Not Subject to the FOIA, and More 9 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
International fallout from Edward Snowden’s revelations of NSA surveillance methods continues this week, and might play a role in Germany’s upcoming elections. The German newspaper Der Spiegel reports...
Migration Declassified: ICE’s Controversial Secure Communities Program 6 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
Recently, Laura Kauer of the Archive’s Mexico/Migration Project launched a new round of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on what has become one of the most controversial immigration enforcem...
FRINFORMSUM 8/1/2013: Senator Al Franken Calls James Clapper’s Timely Declassification “Ad Hoc Transparency.” 1 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled senior intelligence officials during a tense hearing on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs yesterday. Senator Al Franken calle...
Government Records: Human Rights Evidence 30 Jul 2013 | 11:30 pm
I had the privilege of presenting at the 10th biennial International Association of Genocide Scholars conference in Siena, Italy this past June. A wide range of scholars presented on the theme of “The...
UPDATE: The USS Pueblo: “The cost of this deployment to the nation in terms of the amount of cryptologic material compromised was enormous.” 30 Jul 2013 | 08:51 pm
UPDATE 30 July 2013: The renovated Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang is now proudly displaying a new centerpiece –the USS Pueblo, an American SIGINT ship captured by North Korea...
