Articles by National Security Archive
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The CIA Black Sites Program and the Gina Haspel Nomination
George Washington University, National Security Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
9 May 2018—Today’s nomination hearing for Gina Haspel to be CIA director provides an opportunity for the agency and Haspel to fill in the blanks on the CIA “black sites” and interrogation program. The National Security Archive has already identified key questions about Haspel’s record [see box below]. Today, the Archive provides the basis for an evidence-based review of the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program, posting a selection of the most recent versions of declassified documents that reveal the RDI’s background.
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The National Security Archive, George Washington University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2015
April 15, 2015 – Despite denials for decades, the U.S. has finally declassified information affirming its knowledge of Israel’s Dimona nuclear program since 1960. Included in the report are a myriad of other documents indicating dubious practices on the part of the U.S., Israel, the UK and even international agencies.
→ read full article(Português) Documentos secretos dos EUA revelam técnicas de tortura durante ditadura militar no Brasil
National Security Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
Em junho/2014 o Vice Presidente Joseph Biden entregou à presidenta Dilma documentos que revelam técnicas de tortura empregadas durante a ditadura militar brasileira.
→ read full articleUNREDACTED: Declassified Documents Given by Biden to Rousseff Detail Secret Dictatorship-Era Executions, “Psychophysical” Torture in Brazil
Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2014
“One of the most detailed reports of torture ever declassified by the US government,” it was among 43 State Department documents that Vice President Joseph Biden turned over to President Dilma Rousseff during the World Cup competition on June 17 [2014], for use by the Brazilian National Truth Commission.
→ read full articleChiquita Sues to Block Release of Files on Colombia Terrorist Payments
Michael Evans – The National Security Archive,
15 Apr 2013
Two years ago, the Archive published “The Chiquita Papers,” a declassified collection of more than 5,000 pages of internal Chiquita documents turned over to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of a criminal investigation of more than $1.7 million in payments to the AUC over six years, and for nearly three years after the group was formally designated as a terrorist organization. That case resulted in a 2007 sentencing agreement in which Chiquita admitted to more than ten years of payments to a variety of Colombian guerrilla and paramilitary groups.
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