From National Security ArchiveWashington, D.C., September 28, 2020 – The National Security Archive mourns the death of our friend and inspiration, the human rights legend and distinguished physicist Yuri Orlov. Founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group in 1976, Yuri Fedorovich passed away on September 27 at the age of 96. The Archive’s tribute to Yuri Orlov, … [Read more...] about <div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/nsarchive_square_thumbnail/public/thumbnails/image/photo01_0.jpg?itok=fTnvMSlC" width="100" height="100" alt="Yuri Orlov, professor of physics" title="Yuri Orlov, professor of physics"></div></div>
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From National Security ArchiveWashington, D.C., September 24, 2020 - When White House lawyers tried to block publication of former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s book, The Room Where it Happened, a National Security Council classification specialist confronted them, suggesting they were only intervening "because the most powerful man in the world said … [Read more...] about <div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/nsarchive_square_thumbnail/public/thumbnails/image/collage_3.jpg?itok=C4AIhxyN" width="100" height="100" alt="The Bolton Book Saga" title="The Bolton Book Saga"></div></div>
Japanese Banks Funding Global Biodiversity Destruction
From Shingetsu News Agency CD (Portland) — The world’s largest banks, including three Japanese banks, provided more than US$2.6 trillion in loans and underwriting to economic sectors last year that were linked to the global biodiversity crisis, doing little to monitor, let alone curb, damage to life-sustaining ecosystems. Bankrolling Extinction, a new … [Read more...] about Japanese Banks Funding Global Biodiversity Destruction
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From National Security ArchiveWashington, D.C., October 26, 2020 - In the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, the Cyber Vault has reviewed the respective 2020 platforms of the Democratic and Republican parties and how they propose to address issues of cyber and technology policy. To avoid confusion, it is worth noting that the Republican National Committee … [Read more...] about <div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/nsarchive_square_thumbnail/public/thumbnails/image/party_platforms_and_cyber_policy.jpg?itok=-AqPUWOz" width="100" height="100" alt="party platforms and cyber policy" title="ebb729"></div></div>
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From National Security ArchiveWashington D.C., October 22, 2020 - On October 23, 1970, one day after armed thugs intercepted and mortally wounded the Chilean army commander-in-chief, General Rene Schneider, as he drove to work in Santiago, CIA Director Richard Helms convened his top aides to review the covert coup operations that had led to the attack. “[I]t was … [Read more...] about <div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/nsarchive_square_thumbnail/public/thumbnails/image/schneider-official-portrait.jpg?itok=Cw_dDyBI" width="100" height="100" alt="Schneider official portrait" title="Schneider official portrait"></div></div>