Washington D.C., November 4, 2019 – On November 4, 1979, a group calling itself the Students Following the Line of the Imam stormed the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seized control of the ...

Declassified Records Describe Intense U.S. Tracking of Guevara’s Movements, Initial Doubts about His Death, and Hopes that His Violent Demise Would Discourage Revolutionaries in Latin America ...

Washington, D.C., October 1, 2026 - The CIA continues to keep secret major substantive portions of an internal accounting of its activities in Mexico, including information on covert operations ...

Kennedy Warned Israeli Leaders in 1963 That U.S. “Commitment and Support” Could be “Seriously Jeopardized” Absent Inspection of Dimona Reactor U.S. Intelligence Estimated That by Mid-1960s Dimona ...

During their visit to Israel (May 17-May 22), AEC scientists Croach and Staebler visited the Weizman Institute, the Technion, the USAEC-funded swimming pool experimental reactor at Soreq, and finally ...

Donovan kept a typed diary of his meetings, travel and phone calls during the Cuba negotiations. These notes record the progression of events as he pursued the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners, ...

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This document is the press release of a telegram sent by President John F. Kennedy on April 12, 1961, to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev following the successful flight of Yuri Gagarin, the cosmonaut ...

These rich extracts of the CIA’s Inspector General Report on CIA operations in Mexico provide a detailed description of project LINOODLE, which focused on the Mexican countryside and included a ...

On 16 June 1962, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara gave a speech on nuclear policy at the University of Michigan; a major theme was the importance of centralized U.S. control over alliance nuclear ...

This detailed chronology of the creation of the Strategic Air Command and the early years of its operations includes useful information, at pages 207-212, on SAC alert activities and deployments ...

Since 1994, and intensively since 2000, the National Security Archive's Mexico Project has sought to identify and obtain the release of documents from secret government archives on United States and ...