20 Years of "Unearthing Major Revelations"

20 Years of "Unearthing Major Revelations"

National Security Archive Documents and
Selected Headlines/Stories They Generated

December 9, 2005

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1. Pentagon Photographs of Iraq War Casualties, 4/05
"Hundreds of Photos of Caskets Released"
By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post
April 29, 2005

2. Clarke to Rice, "Presidential Policy Initiative/Review -- The Al-Qida Network," 1/25/01
"'01 Memo to Rice Warned of Qaeda and Offered Plan"
By Scott Shane
New York Times
February 12, 2005

3. "Briefing Notes for Rumsfeld Visit to Baghdad," 3/24/84
"Rumsfeld Visited Baghdad in 1984 to Reassure Iraqis, Documents Show"
By Dana Priest
Washington Post
December 19, 2003

4. "Telecon, Secretary Laird, 11/21/69 3:50 p.m."
"Kissinger Tapes Describe Crises, War and Stark Photos of Abuse"
By Elizabeth Becker
New York Times
May 27, 2004

5. Guatemala Death Squad Diary, (uncovered 1999)
"Looking into the Secret Archives of Guatemala's Bureaucracy of Murder"
By Ginger Thompson and Mireya Navarro
New York Times
May 20, 1999

6. Oliver North Notebooks, 6/25/86 & 8/6/86
"Notebook Reveals North-Bush Meeting"
By George Lardner Jr. and Walter Pincus
Washington Post
May 9, 1990

7. Caribbean Map and Deck Log Book of USS Beale, 10/62
"Cuban Missile Crisis Was Worse Than Imagined"
Associated Press
October 13, 2002

8. "Activities of Cuban Exile Leader Orlando Bosch during His Stay in Venezuela," 10/14/76
"Cuba 'Plane Bomber' [Luis Posada Carriles] Was CIA Agent"
BBC News, World Edition
May 11, 2005

9. "DRV Reports Shooting at Two Enemy Aircraft," 8/4/64, and "White House Staff Meeting, 5 August 1964"
"Vietnam War Intelligence 'Deliberately Skewed,' Secret Study Says"
By Scott Shane
New York Times
December 2, 2005

10. White House E-Mail on Iran-Iraq War (2 versions with different deletions), 1/21/87
"Suit Targets White House Messages"
By Fred Kaplan
Boston Globe
July 17, 1989

11. Memorandum of Conversation between Kissinger and Argentine Foreign Minister, 6/6/76
"Kissinger Approved Argentinian 'Dirty War'"
By Duncan Campbell
The Guardian
December 6, 2003

12. Diary Entry from Warsaw Pact Gen. Viktor Anoshkin on Polish Crisis, 12/13/81
"Old Cold War Enemies Exhume One Battlefield"
By Jane Perlez
New York Times
November 11, 1997

13. "First Meeting of Branch 4 Task Force, 9 March 1960," 3/9/60
"1961 Invasion of Cuba Still Vivid"
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
March 25, 2001

14. "Summary of the Existing Plans for Emergency Use of Nuclear Weapons," 9/23/64
"Military Got Authority to Use Nuclear Arms in 1957"
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post
March 21, 1998

15. "Operation Condor," 8/23/76
"Documents Shed Light on Assassination of Chilean in U.S."
By Christopher Marquis and Diana Jean Schemo
New York Times
November 14, 2000

16. FBI Document on Library Awareness Program, 9/25/87
"Documents Disclose F.B.I. Investigations of Some Librarians"
By David Johnston
New York Times
November 7, 1989

17. "Inspector General's Survey of the Cuban Operation," 10/61
"The CIA Secret Kept for 37 Years"
By Peter Kornbluh
Washington Post
March 15, 1998

18. "History of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons," 2/78
"U.S. Violated Nuclear Arms Pledge in Japan, Records Show"
By Judith Miller
New York Times
December 12, 1999

19. "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation," 7/63
"Army's Project X Had Wider Audience"
By Dana Priest
Washington Post
March 6, 1997

20. "[Excised] Views on Trained Cats [Excised] for [Excised] Use," 1967
"Project: Acoustic Kitty: Wiring Up Cats as Mobile Spies … "
By Julian Borger
Guardian Unlimited
September 11, 2001

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