National Security Archive

 From National Security ArchiveWashington D.C., November 10, 2020 — After Harvard professor Henry Kissinger met with top Israeli officials in January 1965, he told U.S. diplomats at the Embassy in Tel Aviv of his near certainty that Israel had begun a nuclear weapons project, according to a record of the meeting, which has recently been declassified and is … [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/eshkol-lydon.jpg?itok=EQOgnZIF" width="100" height="100" alt="Meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson" title="Meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson"></div></div>

 From National Security ArchiveWashington D.C., November 3, 2020 - Several days after Salvador Allende’s history-changing November 3, 1970, inauguration, Richard Nixon convened his National Security Council for a formal meeting on what policy the U.S. should adopt toward Chile’s new Popular Unity government. Only a few officials who gathered in the White House … [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/allende-street.jpg?itok=Dw4wR9kf" width="100" height="100" alt="Allende on the street" title="Allende on the street"></div></div>

 From National Security ArchiveWashington, DC, November 1, 2020—President John F. Kennedy was more disposed to support the removal of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in late 1963 than previously appeared to be the case, according to a recently released White House tape and transcript.  The ouster of Diem in a military coup that would have major … [Read more...] about Evidence on the Diem Coup in South Vietnam, 1963

 From National Security ArchiveWashington, D.C., November 2, 2020 – Declassified highest-level transcripts and diplomatic cables provide new granular detail on the rise to power of Russian President Vladimir Putin 20 years ago, much of it in his own words (as captured by American notetakers) and those of his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, according to the documentary … [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/putin-clinton-1999.jpg?itok=SHO3NLe7" width="100" height="100" alt="Prime minister Putin meets with President Clinton, Auckland, New Zealand, September 12, 1999." title="Prime minister Putin and President Clinton"></div></div>

 From National Security ArchiveWashington, D.C., November 2, 2020 – Declassified highest-level transcripts and diplomatic cables provide new granular detail on the rise to power of Russian President Vladimir Putin 20 years ago, much of it in his own words (as captured by American notetakers) and those of his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, according to the documentary … [Read more...] about Putin, Clinton, and Presidential Transitions