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Infographs. Home. UNREDACTED. OpenLeaks. Secret Embassy Cables - Fulltext Search. Nuclear Plan Shows Cuts and Massive Investments » FAS Strategic Security Blog. By Hans M. Kristensen The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has sent Congress the FY 2011 Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP) with new information about what the administration plans to spend on maintaining and modernizing nuclear weapons and facilities over the next 15-20 years. FAS and UCS got hold of the unclassified sections of the plan and have analyzed what the Obama administration’s first nuclear weapons management plan tells us about how the Prague speech vision will be translated into national nuclear weapons policy. The SSMP consists of five sections (three are unclassified): Smaller Nuclear Stockpile Planned The good news is that plan shows that the United States intends to reduce the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile by 30 to 40 percent from today’s total of approximately 5,000 weapons to 3,000-3,500 weapons at least by 2022.

Massive Investments Forecast The reduction comes at a considerable price. Smaller Stockpile, Expensive Complex. SAUDI ROYAL WEALTH: WHERE DO THEY GET ALL THAT MONEY? Viewing cable 96RIYADH4784, SAUDI ROYAL WEALTH: WHERE DO THEY GET ALL THAT MONEY? Understanding cables Every cable message consists of three parts: The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was. The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject.

The bottom box presents the body of the cable. To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use this WikiSource article as reference. Discussing cables If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. 08LONDON2233. Viewing cable 08LONDON2233, S/NF) UK CONSIDERING ENGAGEMENT WITH HIZBALLAH MINISTER, POLITICAL OFFICIALS REF: A. NEA/ELA-EMBASSY LONDON EMAILS B. LONDON 1396 C. LONDON 1292 D. LONDON 1968 Understanding cables Every cable message consists of three parts: The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was.

The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable. The bottom box presents the body of the cable. To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use this WikiSource article as reference. Discussing cables If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. S E C R E T LONDON 002233 NOFORN SIPDIS STATE FOR NEA/ELA E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/02/2018 TAGS: PREL PTER PGOV SY LE IZ UK SUBJECT: (S/NF) UK CONSIDERING ENGAGEMENT WITH HIZBALLAH MINISTER, POLITICAL OFFICIALS REF: A. 2009-03-22 - COUNTERTERRORISM ADVISER BRENNAN'S MEETING WITH SAUDI KING ABDULLAH. Repost: How to Decipher a State Department Cable (FOIA Tip #2) This guide –originally written by Kristin Adair– might come in handy as you peruse the 251,287 Department of State cables recently released by wikileaks.

[As of today only 243 cables are available on the wikileaks site] At the Archive, we have lots of practice reading declassified government documents. Since we will be using this space to share with you some documents from our trove of government releases, we thought it would be useful to give you some tips on what to look for in these documents. Several of our experienced analysts have created a series of “cheat sheets” for different types of agency records. The State Department has an active declassification program, and we often get lots of documents in response to our FOIA requests to State. Most often, these documents come in the form of cables—communications sent between State Department headquarters in Washington and embassies around the world, or between different US government posts abroad. Like this: Like Loading... General Petraeus' Meeting With Saleh On Security Assistance, Aqap Strikes.

2008-11-03 - DIPLOMATIC SECURITY DAILY. 2009-01-28 - SAUDI EXCHANGE WITH RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PLANS. 2010-01-26 - SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESSING CHINA TO STOP IRANIAN PROLIFERATION, CONCERNED ABOUT TSA REGULATIONS. U.S.-Chile Documents. By Peter Kornbluh National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 8 For more information contact: Peter Kornbluh 202/994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu Washington, D.C. – September 11, 1998 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.

The violent overthrow of the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende changed the course of the country that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda described as "a long petal of sea, wine and snow"; because of CIA covert intervention in Chile, and the repressive character of General Pinochet's rule, the coup became the most notorious military takeover in the annals of Latin American history. Revelations that President Richard Nixon had ordered the CIA to "make the economy scream" in Chile to "prevent Allende from coming to power or to unseat him," prompted a major scandal in the mid-1970s, and a major investigation by the U.S.

These documents include: Cables written by U.S. Click on the. Bay of Pigs: Newly Revealed CIA Documents Expose Blunders. Les vols secrets de la CIA confirmés. Washington — Un litige autour d'une compagnie privée de transport aérien a mis à jour des preuves de vols clandestins menés par la CIA pour transporter des suspects arrêtés dans le cadre de la «guerre contre le terrorisme» lancée après le 11-Septembre, rapportaient hier des journaux. Selon le Washington Post, des dizaines de ces vols, à destination notamment de Bucarest, Bakou, Le Caire, Djibouti, Islamabad ou encore Tripoli, ont été organisés par la petite société Sportsflight, basée à Long Island, qui louait un avion à Richmor Aviation, qui la poursuit aujourd'hui pour rupture de contrat.

Des plans de vols et des listes d'appels, notamment à des responsables de la CIA ou au siège de l'agence de renseignements, ont été déposés comme pièces à conviction à l'occasion du procès à New York, selon le journal, averti du litige par une ONG britannique, Reprieve, spécialisée dans les droits des prisonniers, notamment ceux détenus par les États-Unis à Guantánamo, sur l'île de Cuba. Foreign Policy in Focus | CIA Accountability Hits New Lows - Fir.

In a virtually unnoticed exchange on February 3, Congressman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) called the CIA to task for its incredibly ham-fisted handling of an April 20, 2001 incident in Peru. In collaboration with a CIA aircrew working as part of a joint program to interdict drug trafficking, the Peruvian air force shot down a plane carrying an American missionary family, killing two. In an angry tone, the Republican congressman denounced the CIA’s response, released the actual film of the incident, and triggered an official statement from the agency — conveniently left off the CIA website to attract as little attention as possible. This episode is important as part of the continuing effort to bring accountability to CIA operations. More importantly, it sheds light on the low standards of identification and evidence the CIA uses in selecting its targets. It’s a fair bet that similar accountability issues will arise in the CIA’s Predator operations in the ongoing war on terror. The Cover-Up.

Clinton PDDs and PRDs. I somehow missed the fact that the Clinton Library has posted online six declassified Presidential Decision Directives (PDD) and two Presidential Review Directives, most of which involve nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defense and space policy. PDD-17: U.S. Policy on Ballistic Missile Defenses and the Future of the ABM Treaty PDD-23: US Policy on Foreign Access to Remote Sensing Space Capabilities PDD-25: U.S.

PDD-30: U.S. PDD-39: U.S . PDD-47: Nuclear Scientific and Technical Cooperation with Russia Related to Stockpile Safety and Security and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) Monitoring and Verification PRD-13: Multilateral Peacekeeping Operations PRD-31: U.S. Two of the PDDs were were unknown (17, 47) , while others were not previously available in full-text (23, 25. and 30) There are interesting posts to be written about many of these documents, but allow me to just do some housekeeping on the missile defense docs. Secrecy News. The number of chronically homeless persons in the U.S. dropped from more than 120,000 in 2008 to around 84,000 in 2014, a new report from the Congressional Research Service notes.

The federal government has undertaken to end chronic homelessness by 2017. “One of the reasons that federal programs have devoted resources to ending chronic homelessness […] Read More The national census in 2020 will be the first to rely primarily on the Internet for collecting census data, thereby creating new avenues for fraud and disruption. A new report from the JASON scientific advisory panel describes the problem and outlines some solutions.

Read More Employees of the U.S. intelligence community are expected to be bold, innovative and imbued with moral courage. Read More Read More A newly updated Department of Defense publication affirms the importance of public outreach, not simply as a gesture towards democratic governance, but also as an instrument of operational utility. Read More Read More Read More. Declassified/Released Document Collections. Keystone Pipeline Project Ronald Reagan’s June 12, 1987 Speech at the Brandenburg Gate Korean Air Flight 858 February 15, 2006 draft memorandum by Counselor of the Department Philip Zelikow Re: The McCain Amendment and U.S. Obligations under Article 16 of the Convention Against Torture Frequently Requested Contracts Rwandan Declassification Collection Colombian Declassification Collection Venezuelan Declassification Collection The Segovia (Antioquia) Massacre, 1988 Death of Danilo Anderson 2006 Mexican Presidential Election Department of State FOIA Logs (2005-2010) Alleged CIA, “Ghost,” or “Secret” Detainees Collection Argentina Declassification Collection - Includes newly released information Niger/Iraq Uranium Story and Joe Wilson 1973-1976 Telegrams Transferred to NARA State Department Collections Argentina Declassification Press Releases/Statements • 08/20/2002 State Department Press Release Chile Declassification Press Releases/Statements Other Agency Chile Declassification Documents.

The National Security Archive. Cryptome. Open Access Overview (definition, introduction) Peter Suber First put online June 21, 2004. Last revised December 5, 2015. Suggested short URL for this page = Peter Suber Director, Harvard Office for Scholarly CommunicationDirector, Harvard Open Access ProjectFaculty Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Senior Researcher, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources CoalitionResearch Professor of Philosophy, Earlham Collegepeter.suber@gmail.com This overview is also available in Chinese (October 2011), Czech (December 2013), French (September 2012), German (September 2011), Greek (February 2012), Japanese (January 2013), Polish (July 2015), Romanian (September 2012), Russian (January 2012), Slovenian (July 2005), Spanish (March 2012), and Swahili (December 2015).

I welcome other translations. Open CRS. IntelNews.org.