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Claire Dorfman

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Analyst, Asst. Director, Mexico Project @nsarchive.bsky.social

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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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...
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The Long Shadow of Dos Erres
Washington, D.C., February 24, 2026 - After a decade-long investigation and a trial lasting more than five weeks, a federal court in Ottawa has ruled to revoke the Canadian citizenship of a Guatemalan...
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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...
Banner image shots a collage of notable moments and actors in US-Iran relations.
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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
CIA Intelligence Assessment: "The Strait of Hormuz: A Vulnerable Lifeline," Secret, July 1979.
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Wrote a chronology of 2025’s biggest data losses (and restorations!) for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social’s April Passport issue. Be sure to also check out the issue’s moving tribute to my former @nsarchive.bsky.social colleague Bill Burr. Bill, you are so missed.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 03/02/2026
Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
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A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My comment in this week's @newyorker.com is about an American nightmare two decades in the making. DHS agencies that have long operated with relative impunity are becoming the personal army of an authoritarian President. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Why the D.H.S. Disaster in Minneapolis Was Predictable
For decades, ICE and Border Patrol have operated with fewer constraints than typical law-enforcement agencies.
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Incredible piece from @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social today on Bill Barr, Noriega, and the kidnapping of Maduro. Barr can also be remembered for dismantling the Cienfuegos case in 2020 by dropping drug trafficking and money laundering charges against Mexico's former SecDef. The more things change..!
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Anonymous @youranonnews.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
BTW, this video is getting scrubbed by CBS/Weiss on copyright claims all over the place. As usual, @ddosecrets.com steps up. You can grab it here when the youtube or other copies go down: www.ddosecrets.com/article/insi...
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Inside CECOT - Distributed Denial of Secrets
A copy of the 60 Minutes' segment Inside CECOT, which was censored by Bari Weiss shortly before it was due to air. Through an apparent error, the segment was briefly uploaded to the Global TV app bef...
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The "rock 'n' roll asault" on Noriega: during the invasion of Panama, U.S. troops blasted music over loudspeakers at the Vatican Embassy, where Noriega had taken refuge. We got the SOUTHCOM playlist through FOIA. It's kind of...amazing
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Bill❤️
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Today we published our 40 top documents to celebrate 40 years of @nsarchive.bsky.social. One of my favorites: Kissinger tells Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs "the illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer."
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Eugene Hasenfus, whose 1986 capture in Nicaragua exposed the Iran-Contra scandal, has died at 84. The National Security Archive has published important documents on Hasenfus and the "off-the-shelf" covert operations run by the Reagan White House to sustain the Contra war.
A declassified White House email from 1986 about the downing of the plane flown by Hasenfus.
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 04/10/2025
May there be a million more boats, until Palestine is free 🇵🇸
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Release the Hostages! Break the Siege!
Nearly 500 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla—including my friend and comrade Logan—have been taken prisoner by Israel for attempting to deliver aid to the victims of US-backed genocide in Gaza.
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The DEA and Ayotzinapa: Intercepted Text Messages Contain Critical Information About the Night in Iguala (Click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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The DEA and Ayotzinapa
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12/09/2025
⭐️ Drop Site News, with Unmute Humanity, has launched the Gaza Journalist Fund to help 29 vetted reporters evacuate Gaza City and survive displacement in the south. Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com
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Gaza Journalist Fund
Supporting Journalists Evacuating Gaza City and Surviving Displacement in the South
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
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Invisible, silenciado y casi abandonado: El Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala en su vigésimo aniversario
Washington, D.C., 4 de septiembre de 2025 - Hace veinte años, un grupo de investigadores de derechos humanos en Guatemala se topó con un enorme archivo que contenía millones de registros históricos pe...
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El Parece @elparece.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I question the editorial judgement of presenting the paramilitarization of armed groups in Michoacán without a strong emphasis on precisely where 70-90% of the weapons are coming from and where the knowhow for explosive-laden drones came from and when it started. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
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With Drones and I.E.D.s, Mexico’s Cartels Adopt Arms of Modern War
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 26/08/2025
“What we’re seeing under a second Trump administration is an unprecedented, rapid deletion and distortion of climate data and resources,” climate change researcher @rsanta.bsky.social told @laurenleharper.bsky.social.
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How climate change researcher Rachel Santarsiero makes FOIA work
The challenges are steep, but persistence can pay off
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Guatemala's celebrated police archive is a shadow of its former self—a hollowed-out institution operating at drastically reduced levels that has little contact with the public it is supposed to serve." Read the new report on the fragile state of Guatemala's AHPN. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
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Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New report with @katidoyle.bsky.social on 20 years of Guatemala's Historical Archive of the National Police nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
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Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...
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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Israel's war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 Palestinians since October 2023. Israel is deliberately starving the people of Gaza while bombing and shooting the Palestinians who come to food distribution sites. To defend that is a massive moral failure.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/07/2025
NEW: We spoke with the families of some of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared to El Salvador in March. Horror stories are already emerging. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I have so many questions
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15/07/2025
The Trump administration is making it increasingly difficult to obtain federal records and shed light on how it operates. FOIA is "certainly on life support," Lauren Harper told @davelevinthal.com in @msnbc.com.
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Opinion | It's not just the Epstein files. The Trump administration is withholding all kinds of public records.
Freedom of Information Act requests are regularly being ignored and rebuffed.
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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
As federal spending to prepare and respond to the growing threat of weather-related disasters is being slashed, a massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to arms contractors is underway. [1/2] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Deadly floods could be new normal as Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn
Trump’s ‘cuts and chaos’ to agencies are opposite of what’s needed for era of worsening weather disasters, experts say
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 01/07/2025
As many of us have been saying forever: one of the problems with insisting the state focus on targeting “criminals,” as democrats always do, is that criminals are ipso facto whoever the state decides they are—including, eventually, you.
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Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for criminal offenses
Memo says those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My latest @nsarchive.bsky.social piece is a 45-document deep dive tracing 25+ years of US intel agencies analyzing climate threats--from Arctic ice melt to global food, water, and migration risks. But the docs also reveal a deeply siloed approach to climate intel: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Spying on Climate: Inside the Intelligence Community’s Environmental Legacy
Washington, D.C., June 30, 2025 – For decades, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has viewed climate change as a serious national security threat that will create “new and compounded stresses on peo...
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ICIJ @icij.org · 30/06/2025
The Journalists Association of El Salvador estimates that 40 journalists have had to leave the country in the last month as President Nayib Bukele has escalated his crackdown on his critics. Several are reporters at ICIJ media partner @elfaro.net.
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At least 40 journalists have fled El Salvador, fearing imprisonment - ICIJ
The country’s press association said reporters have been forced to leave the Central American country amid the government’s crackdown on dissent.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 25/06/2025
I wrote about death and disappearance at the border, and the bipartisan fascism of the US deportation/detention machine.
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“I don’t know where the bones come from”
On death and dehumanization at the border, and the long arc of American fascism
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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A House Divided: Washington, Langley, Saigon, and the Plot Against Diem
Washington, D.C., May 22, 2025 - Early in the morning of October 7, 1963, the top leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gathered in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence (DC...
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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Lo más reciente del Archivo de Seguridad Nacional sobre la colaboración larga y secreta entre México y los EEUU. @nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
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La CIA y México espiaron a diplomáticos cubanos y soviéticos hasta 1994
Fueron "reclutados", sin que supieran: Ricardo Garibay, Manuel Carballido, Alicia Reyes y Francisco Zendejas, entre otros intelectuales.
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico (click below to read the documents and analysis from @cldorfman.bsky.social) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico
Washington, D.C., May 19, 2025 – Mexico welcomed CIA espionage activities in Mexico during the Cold War and even initiated some of them, according to recently declassified documents published today by...
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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
23 years ago I published my first @nsarchive.bsky.social electronic briefing book on Colombia. It's way too long (three volumes!), but some of the documents were featured in the @nytimes.com later that month, so all the work was worth it! Gift link below: www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/w...
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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
What does it mean to represent a ghost in court? My latest at @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in U.S. Courts
Even as the Administration refuses to reveal the names of those it has deported under the Alien Enemies Act, a network of lawyers and advocates is fighting to keep their cases alive.
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Archive is troubled to learn that President Trump yesterday fired all nine members of the State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a statutory body that has operated without presidential interference for over 20 years. history.state.gov/about/hac/in...
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Authority and Responsibilities - Historical Advisory Committee - About Us - Office of the Historian
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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is an amazing and important resource. Disappearing people is not “immigration policy.” It’s government repression.
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Latin America has a long and brutal legacy of enforced disappearance. But there's an equally long legacy of human rights defenders who have fought back. Join us next Wednesday to hear from Mercedes Doretti @eaafoficial.bsky.social, Juan E. Mendez, and @marcelaturati.bsky.social.
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Each one of us knows,” Manal said, “that what’s happening in Gaza is going to happen in the West Bank.” Beautiful piece and beautiful images by @benehrenreich.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...
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After Nonviolence, by Ben Ehrenreich
The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
@nsarchive.bsky.social continues to mine the recent release of JFK docs. Today's posting by Peter and Arturo publishes key documents related to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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JFK Files: Revelations from the Covert Operations High Command
Washington, D.C., April 7, 2025 - Just six months before the 1964 military coup that overthrew the government of João Goulart in Brazil, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Plans Richard Helms...
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Peter Kornbluh from the @nsarchive.bsky.social and I were interviewed for this week's episode of the History as it Happens podcast. We discuss the JFK files and CIA covert operations. You can listen to it for free here: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-jfk-files
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History As It Happens: The JFK Files
Why was director Oliver Stone testifying on Capitol Hill today? After his 1991 film "JFK" reignited conspiracy theories about President Kennedy's assassination, Congress authorized the release of mill...
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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Here it is in English: El Faro’s blockbuster report on the corrupt system that’s grown out of Bukele’s mass detention policy in El Salvador, especially relevant now given his partnership with the Trump Admin: elfaro.net/en/202505/el...
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For Sale in Bukele’s Prisons: Calls, Letters, Conjugal Visits
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Víctor Aguilar @vmaguilar.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The UK has sanctioned Alejandro Giammattei, María Consuelo Porras, José Curruchiche, Cinthia Monterroso and three more people whose actions have allegedly undermined democracy and the rule of law in #Guatemala. They will be subject to travel bans and asset freezes. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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UK sanctions corrupt actors in Guatemala
The UK has sanctioned seven corrupt actors whose actions have undermined democracy and the rule of law in Guatemala.
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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: More journalists have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 than in both World Wars and other major wars, combined. Our new report outlines the costs of war to journalists – and the journalism we all rely on. [THREAD, 1/8] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
SpyTalk: "The most complete, useful and quickly digestible first-out-of the-gate packages you might not have seen came from the National Security Archive, a private research organizaton at [GWU] that specializess in...unearthing long classified Cold War-era documents." www.spytalk.co/p/cia-boss-b...
"But to us, the most complete, useful and quickly digestIble first-out-of the-gate packages you might not have seen came from the National Security Archive, a private research organizaton at George Washington University that specializes in these kinds of things, which is to say, unearthing long classified Cold War-era documents."
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The National Security Archive has done a quick review of the new JFK papers and found not bombshells about the assassination but other revelations about CIA operations in Latin America & around the world in the 60s, including breaking into the French embassy in DC. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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CIA Covert Ops: Kennedy Assassination Records Lift Veil of Secrecy
Washington D.C., March 19, 2025 - On the day of President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in January 1961, “47 percent of the political officers serving in United States embassies were CAS”—intelligenc...
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New Posting: Kennedy Assassination Records Lift Veil of Secrecy on CIA Covert Ops (click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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CIA Covert Ops: Kennedy Assassination Records Lift Veil of Secrecy
Washington D.C., March 19, 2025 - On the day of President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in January 1961, “47 percent of the political officers serving in United States embassies were CAS”—intelligenc...
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Claire Dorfman @cldorfman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
…and erases history
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National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The National Security Archive sued the State Department for access to cables from the Dissent Channel, which are formal critiques of US policy by employees of the State Department. Click here to read more about that: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Department of State’s Dissent Channel Revealed
Washington D.C., March 15, 2018 - A US Foreign Service officer warned that “blatantly illegal” Congressional requests, including the use of a diplomatic pouch to smuggle gemstones and utilizing embass...
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