OpenLeaks

UNREDACTED 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

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. 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. These documents, and many thousands of other CIA, NSC, and Defense Department records that are still classified secret, remain relevant to ongoing human rights investigations in Chile, Spain and other countries, and unresolved acts of international terrorism conducted by the Chilean secret police. Click on the to view each document. FBI, Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA), January 21, 1982 Department of Defense, U.S.

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. 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.

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.

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. The State Department has an active declassification program, and we often get lots of documents in response to our FOIA requests to State. FOIA tip: You can file a FOIA request for State Department cable(s) from a particular day or time period surrounding an event that you are researching, to see what government officials knew when and how key decisions were made. When you get those cables, here’s some advice on how to make sense of them. Like this: Like Loading...

intelNews.org 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. 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

Cryptome 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. Policy on Reforming Multilateral Peace Operations 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.

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. Shooting Down Civilians The key facts became known within 10 days of the tragedy. The Cover-Up The CIA as judge, jury, and executioner?