In a handwritten note, Pres. Carter seems to dismiss Brzezinski's call for military action to incite the "downfall" of Khomeini: "We need to list everything that Khomeini would not want to see occur and which would not incite condemnation of U.S. by other nations." nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/197...
Very cool to see the @nsarchive.bsky.social’s work on disappearing climate data featured in @postopinions.bsky.social!
I’d also point readers to the excellent work of @envirodgi.bsky.social and @publicenvirodata.bsky.social, the experts in environmental data preservation!
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In 2017, a mandatory review request by the @nsarchive.bsky.social forced the CIA to release previously redacted portions of an internal history on the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Documenting U.S. planning for the Iran strike will be harder than documenting the lead-up to the Iraq War thanks to this admin's animosity to record-keeping.
Still, docs released through FOIA re Iraq provide offer a road map of what to ask for.
The best examples are from @nsarchive.bsky.social.
Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence
Via @thebulletin.org by Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social of the @nsarchive.bsky.social. thebulletin.org/2026/02/deny...
Banner image shots a collage of notable moments and actors in US-Iran relations.
The @nsarchive.bsky.social is one of the best resources on the web on the declassified history of U.S.-Iran relations, the 1953 coup, the 1979 hostage crisis, and more.
nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/iran...
Ten years ago, the CIA released a controversial internal history of the Bay of Pigs operation. Read it here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala --
@nsarchive.bsky.social publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Other key records posted today include cables from the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala, which in the immediate aftermath of the massacre named the military as responsible. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Published today for the first time today, "Plan Victoria 82" is an essential Guatemalan army document describing its counterinsurgency strategy during the year of the Dos Erres massacre. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/338...
The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala --
@nsarchive.bsky.social publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
From the @nsarchive.bsky.social today, primary documents and court records related to the recent federal court ruling in Ottawa that "revoke[d] the Canadian citizenship of a Guatemalan military officer who participated in a horrific and notorious massacre of hundreds of innocent civilians in 1982."
The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala --
@nsarchive.bsky.social publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence
thebulletin.org/2026/02/deny...
Amazing work by @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social for @nsarchive.bsky.social on the snatch operation against Panama's Noriega and its implications for the Maduro operation. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
(4) Building on @lucatrenta.bsky.social work, Barr argued that CIA could support foreign coup d'états even if the coup likely resulted in the killing of the foreign head of state (Noriega or now Maduro). This Barr memo is still classified, but it is described by Barr himself and a CIA lawyer
(3) That Congress' power of the purse had limits and could not prohibit expenditures of the CIA reserve contingencies fund for covert ops nor force the President to notify Congress of covert ops within 48 hours
(2) that the Posse Comitatus Act which restricted the use of the military for law enforcement purposes did not apply to U.S. operations overseas
More importantly, it highlights a series of legal opinions that Bill Barr wrote as head of the Office of Legal Counsel that argued (1) that the President could violate international law
It shows that the CIA was concerned that Noriega might spill the beans on some of the sordid actions that powerful individuals in Washington were involved in.
Here is my new article for @nsarchive.bsky.social It is based on documents I found at the George H. W. Bush Library that deal with the lead up to the "snatch" operation against Panama's Noriega in 1989 and how that op served as the key precedent for the Maduro op
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The UNFCCC laid the groundwork for Clinton, Obama, and Biden to lead on global climate action.
Now, Trump’s decision to sever ties with the landmark treaty will only further isolate the U.S. on the world stage.
@nsarchive.bsky.social
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Great new EBB today from Dr. Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi on
how the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” set the stage for the “Snatch” operation in Venezuela nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Great power unilateralism and climate change are not a good combination. @rsanta.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
In pulling out of the UNFCCC, President Trump has sent a clear signal that the US will have no part in multileral debates about climate change. But this is a sharp divergence from past Republican administrations.
My latest for the @nsarchive.bsky.social:
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Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
“There is a supreme irony here—that it is Vladimir Putin who is the defender of international law against the law of force,” said Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive. www.spytalk.co/p/time-machi...
Time Machine: When Putin Warned Bush About Dangers of Regime Change www.spytalk.co/p/time-machi...
The Bush-Putin Transcripts: How Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush Bonded Over Terrorism
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