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Presidents Day Weekend Document Friday.
Happy President’s Day weekend! Having spent years combing through all these guys’ documents, I kinda feel like I know em –in a weird way. It’s always pretty cool to see them all together. Would...
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John Moss’s Decade-Long Fight For FOIA, as Chronicled in “People’s Warrior”...
On October 3 2011, Michael R. Lemov author of People’s Warrior: John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumers Rights will attend a book signing at Busboys and Poets. People’s...
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Document Friday: The Origins of “Glomar” Declassified.
On 19 March 1975, the New York Times’ front page included Seymour Hersh’s headline story, “C.I.A. Salvage Ship Brought Up Part of Soviet Sub Lost in 1968, Failed to Raise Atom Missiles.” This was the...
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Document Friday: Why Kissinger Thought the CIA was Blackmailing Him
By Tom Blanton This post can also be found on ForeignPolicy.com The CIA director was blackmailing the secretary of state; a nuclear deal with Iran was in the works; and the U.S. president wanted to...
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The USS Pueblo: “The cost of this deployment to the nation in terms of the...
Last week’s episode of AMC’s Mad Men featured a passing reference to the USS Pueblo, an American SIGINT ship captured by North Korean forces on January 23, 1968, and the only commissioned US Navy ship...
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The Documents behind the Birth of FISA, the Invisible Hand Granting NSA’s...
A recent New York Times article highlighted the problematic and excessively secretive nature of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court, the entity that gives the National Security...
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