The Prague Spring 1968: A National Security Archive Document Reader (National Security Archive Cold War Readers)
Sunlight Foundation (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nancy Scola’s live-blogging of the release. OMB Watch’s take. Steven Aftergood from the Federal of American Scientists. National Security Archive’s Meredith Fuchs. Andrea DiMaio finds the participation and public engagement pieces wanting. Sunlight Labs’ Clay Johnson on OGD for developers.
Deeplinks (Free subscription) | yesterday
... government timetable” is summarized in an excellent analysis by Meredith Fuchs of the National Security Archive). Many of the requirements are fairly concrete; for instance, within 60 days, each agency must create an “Open Government Webpage” to serve as the gateway for agency activities related to implementation of the OGD, including the receipt of public comments....
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
National Security Archive - President George H.W. Bush approached the Malta summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago this week determined to avoid arms control topics and simply promote a public image of "new pace and purpose" with him "leading as much as Gorbachev"; but realized from his face-to-face discussions that Gorbachev was offering an arms...
Rantburg (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... detailed and written by hand on lined notepaper, the diary has come to light in the U.S. National Security Archive. It tells the story of a 'special relationship' not between Britain and America - but between the British Labour Party and Soviet communists. It was a relationship that lasted more than 30 years, right up to Margaret Thatcher's arrival as Prime Minister in 1979 and beyond....
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
National Security Archive - The Guatemalan army, under the direction of military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt, (photo) carried out a deliberate counterinsurgency campaign in the summer of 1982 aimed at massacring thousands of indigenous peasants, according to a comprehensive set of internal records presented as evidence to the Spanish National Court and posted today by the ...
thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
More truth unearthed about those dark, horrific, Iran-Contra years in Central America. Shame none of the secret USAmerican organizers and funders of such atrocities will ever be held accountable in a court of law. Operation Sofia: Documenting Genocide in Guatemala National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 297 The Guatemalan army, under the direction of military ruler [...]
