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National Security Archive

Open government advocacy and investigative journalism nonprofit at George Washington University

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Dec 8, 2025
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Did NATO promise Gorbacev not to move east

Western leaders made verbal assurances in 1990 focused on Germany’s reunification, including James Baker’s line that “NATO’s jurisdiction… would not move one inch eastward,” but no legally binding, wr...

Jan 17, 2026
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What new documents about the JFK assassination were released after 1992 and what did they reveal?

Since the 1992 JFK Records Act set a 2017 deadline for disclosure, multiple waves of previously secret documents have been released—most notably the Assassination Records Review Board’s 1990s transfer...

Dec 16, 2025
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What is the full transcript of Donald Trump's January 6 2021 speech?

The complete, published transcripts of Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, “Save America” speech are available from multiple mainstream outlets and archival projects; for example, The Washington Post’s trans...

Dec 9, 2025

What techniques and drugs were documented in MKULTRA experiments?

Declassified records and longstanding investigations show MKULTRA combined pharmacology (notably LSD) with coercive techniques—electroshock, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, sleep and temperature extrem...

Nov 30, 2025

operation northwoods

Operation Northwoods was a 1962 menu of proposed false‑flag actions drafted within the Department of Defense/Joint Chiefs of Staff that recommended staging or fabricating attacks and incidents to crea...

Dec 7, 2025

JFK killed by our government

Newly released government files in 2025 disclose extensive Cold War-era CIA covert operations and gaps in agency record-keeping, but multiple major news outlets and historians say those records “do no...

Dec 10, 2025

Which universities and hospitals collaborated with the CIA on MKULTRA and what was their role?

Declassified records and archival reporting show MKULTRA was not a single lab’s work but a wide network: at least 80 institutions and roughly 185 outside researchers participated, including universiti...

Nov 23, 2025

How do declassified CIA, FBI, and presidential records address claims of Israeli intelligence involvement in JFK's killing?

Declassified JFK-era documents released in 2025 show evidence of close working relationships between some CIA officers (notably James Jesus Angleton) and Israeli intelligence, and they reveal domestic...

Nov 30, 2025

What did Jonathan Pollard do?

Jonathan J. Pollard was a civilian U.S. naval intelligence analyst who in the mid-1980s provided large quantities of classified U.S. intelligence to Israel, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espi...

Jan 14, 2026

Which universities and hospitals were named in declassified MKUltra records and what experiments occurred there?

Declassified MKUltra records identify scores of universities, hospitals and private labs that received CIA funding or served as sites for drug and behavioral experiments—most famously McGill Universit...

Dec 4, 2025

What are the most interesting facts about mkultra declassified files

The most recent public releases include over 1,200 pages of MKULTRA-related records published by the National Security Archive and ProQuest, drawing on surviving FOIA and archive material that survive...

Nov 13, 2025

Are there documented cases of CIA involvement in Mexican politics or crimes?

The assembled analyses show , ranging from confirmed Cold War intelligence collaboration with Mexican governments to journalistic and academic allegations tying the CIA to anti‑narcotics operations an...

Dec 17, 2025

what stories were told to mkultra victims

Survivors and historians say MKUltra victims were subjected to a range of sensory, drug and electroshock techniques meant to erase, overwrite or compartmentalize memory and to create dissociated “role...

Dec 17, 2025

Which known MKULTRA victims pursued legal redress, and how did declassified records influence those cases?

Several named MKULTRA victims — notably Stanley Glickman, Velma “Val” Orlikow and a cohort of patients of Dr. Ewen Cameron at McGill’s Allan Memorial Institute (including recent plaintiffs such as Ms....

Dec 13, 2025

What primary source documents (memos, cables, transcripts) shed light on the USS Liberty incident?

Several primary-source collections shed direct light on the USS Liberty attack: declassified CIA memoranda and reports, NSA transcript and audio releases of intercepted Israeli communications, Navy/Do...

Dec 12, 2025

What credible evidence supports or refutes claims that the U.S. government was involved in JFK's assassination?

The most recent government releases — a mass declassification in 2025 that put over 60,000 JFK-related records online — deepen understanding of Cold War covert activity but, so far, do not provide a s...

Dec 9, 2025

Did Donald Trump's January 6 speech incite the Capitol riot according to fact-checkers?

Multiple fact‑checking organizations and investigative bodies concluded that Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021, speech at the Ellipse contributed to the atmosphere that produced the Capitol breach: repor...

Dec 4, 2025

What are some interesting things you learned about MkUltra declassified files

Declassified caches published in late 2024 and early 2025 include roughly 1,200+ pages of MKULTRA–related material (Digital National Security Archive release) and newly posted Senate and CIA records t...

Nov 29, 2025

What declassified documents mention CIA involvement with Nicaraguan Contras and alleged drug trafficking?

Declassified U.S. government records and agency reports—including CIA documents released through the agency’s FOIA Reading Room and the National Security Archive collection—show that U.S. officials kn...

Nov 23, 2025

What declassified documents related to JFK's assassination remain contested or unexplained as of 2025?

Large, government-held caches of JFK assassination records were ordered released in 2025 and thousands of pages were published — roughly 63,000–80,000 pages in various tallies — but experts and journa...