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 National Security Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Visibly angry, he defended his actions as "crucial to our national security" and that the American people expected him to "do everything in my power, under our laws and Constitution, to protect them and their civil liberties" as long as there was a "continuing threat" from al-Qaida.
Headquarters for the National Security Agency is at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, approximately ten miles (16 km) northeast of Washington, DC.
Its secure government communications brief has involved NSA in production of communications hardware and software, in the production of semiconductors (there is a chip fabrication plant at Ft. Meade), in cryptography research, and contracting with private industry for items, equipment, and research it is not itself prepared to develop or supply.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Security_Agency   (2787 words)

  
 Cuadra Associates Customer Profile
The National Security Archive is a non-profit, non-government research library facility based in Washington, DC that collects, catalogs, indexes, and publishes unclassified and declassified government documents on U.S. national security policy.
The National Security Archive has used STAR since 1988 for its records management functions--similar in some respects to inventory control--and for its publications program.
The Archive's finding aids serve as roadmaps to the documents themselves, which are distributed as part of the series "The Making of U.S. Policy." The Archive had published document sets on many diverse topics, such as nuclear non-proliferation, the Iran-Contra affair and, more recently, policy related to the Bay of Pigs invasion.
www.cuadra.com /customers/nsa.html   (376 words)

  
 National Security Archive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tom Blanton is the director of the National Security Archive.
The National Security Archive is an independent organization located within the George Washington University.
A prominent subject covered on the site is some of the controversial foreign-policy decisions made by National Security Advisor (1969–73) and later Secretary of State (1973–77) Henry Kissinger, in particular concerning operation Condor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Security_Archive   (166 words)

  
 The Journal of American History
Government records are essential to the study of U.S. national security policy, and the National Security Archive has done much to gain the release of documents from the State and Defense departments, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Council, and other government agencies and to make them available for research.
The National Security Archive 's home page consists mainly of headlinesmore recent ones in larger type and with dates located at the center of the page, older stories in smaller type and without dates listed on the right.
Founded in 1985 and located on the campus of George Washington University, the National Security Archive is a library with more than two million pages of declassified documents, the largest such collection in any nongovernmental repository.
www.indiana.edu /~jah/issues/reviews/903_wr04.shtml   (856 words)

  
 National Security Archive: Sources on Latin America
The National Security Archive is a nongovernmental, nonprofit institution that uses the Freedom of Information Act to declassify United States government documents related to this country’s foreign policy.
The National Security Archive is not a disinterested repository of material.
On the contrary, the Archive’s analysts are quite critical of U.S. foreign policy, and their efforts at declassifying documents aim to blow the whistle on U.S. malfeasance.
chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/searchwhm.php?function=print&whmid=32/whm.html&wwhrecord=   (668 words)

  
 APFN
The National Security Archive released the cable, and a CIA memorandum, "We're at War," written by then director George Tenet, as it prepared to commemorate its 20th anniversary on Friday.
MORTON H. HALPERIN was an original sponsor of the Archive when he was Washington director of the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the Center for National Security Studies.
SCOTT ARMSTRONG conceived of the idea for the National Security Archive while working at the Washington Post in 1985 and became the founding director of the organization.
disc.server.com /discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=96603;title=APFN   (1269 words)

  
 Rice Webcast Archive: National Security Advisors, April 12, 2001
The Forum on the Role of the National Security Advisor was a joint program between the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The relationship of the agency to the national security advisor and the president is an important part of this problem.
The national security advisor serves the National Security Council, and he has to serve many masters as he or she does that.
webcast.rice.edu /speeches/20010412secadv.html   (9031 words)

  
 The Invisible Library: National Security Archive
The National Security Archive is one example of a human rights archive, a place that collects materials documenting the ongoing struggle for human equality.
Remote access to materials makes it possible to reach a far greater number of people, and archives like the NSA that track the patterns of use of its visitors are one step ahead of those who do not.
Human Rights Archives: The first in a series of blog entries.
invisiblelibrary.blogspot.com /2004/08/national-security-archive.html   (496 words)

  
 National Security Archive, Case No. VFA-0033, September 13, 1996
In its Appeal, the National Security Archive contends that release of at least some of those portions could no longer reasonably be expected to cause damage to the national security and that there is substantial public interest in the withheld information.
The National Security Archive filed an Appeal from a determination issued to it on February 3, 1995, by the Department of Energy's Oakland Operations Office (Oakland).
Keller a copy of the Report from which it withheld information it claimed to be classified as National Security Information pursuant to Executive Order 12356 and as Restricted Data pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and therefore exempt from mandatory disclosure under Exemptions 1 and 3, respectively, of the FOIA.
www.oha.doe.gov /cases/foia/vfa0033.htm   (1105 words)

  
 UMI :: National Security Archive, Washington D.C.
For several years the National Security Archive, a non-profit research institute, has been working to locate, have declassified, organize and index government documents on key areas of U.S. policy making.
These and other materials are available for research on the premises of the National Security Archive.
This collection had its origins in the National Security Archive’s interest in documenting the deadliest conflict in modern U.S. history.
www.umi.com /research/pd-product-National-Security-Archive-169.shtml   (3219 words)

  
 Jonsson Library: Collections: U.S. Federal Documents: National Security Archive Collections
The National Security Archive collections include full text documents on microfiche as made available by the non-governmental, non-profit institution, the National Security Archive in Washington D.C. The publications include the documents secured by the organization through the Freedom of Information Act and the organization¹s own indexes and guides to the documents.
The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained classified federal government documents through the Freedom of Information Act and wanted to make them available to the public.
Access to the Digital National Security Archive is available through library computer terminals.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/jonsson/collections/usfed/natsecurity.html   (387 words)

  
 Electronic Briefing Books
Archive publications also include 20 microfiche collections, 12 of which are now available on the World Wide Web as part of the Digital National Security Archive subscription, and more than 20 books written by Archive staff and fellows.
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Books provide online access to critical declassified records on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy, and more.
Contents of this website Copyright 1995-2004 National Security Archive.
www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB   (1920 words)

  
 Director of National Security Archive to speak at UD
The National Security Archive has organized numerous international conferences bringing together historic personalities to confront, explain and analyze the decisions they have made in international crises such as the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University, will speak at the University of Delaware on Wednesday, April 23.
Director of National Security Archive to speak at UD
www.udel.edu /PR/NewsReleases/2003/apr/4-10-03/nsa.html   (426 words)

  
 NARA - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - Archives.gov Home
State of the Archives: Address to the staff of the National Archives and Records Administration by Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States.
All National Archives research rooms will be closed on Monday, January 16, in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday.
You don't have to go to Washington D.C. to visit the National Archives.
www.archives.gov   (259 words)

  
 Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
The Archive is a nongovernmental organization established in 1985 to fulfill the intent of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act by serving as an institutional memory for Freedom of Information Act releases in the area of national security.
Located at the George Washington's University's Gelman Library, the Archive uniquely combines the functions of a research institute on international affairs, a public interest law firm, a library and archive of former secrets, a public advocate of openness in government, and a publisher of documents and documented analysis in books, microfiche, CD-ROM and online formats.
The Archive staff have built a critically praised web site featuring former secrets that has attracted more than 2.5 million "hits." For access to the Archive's documentary collections, consult it's Electronic Briefing Books: www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/index.html.
www.isn.ethz.ch /php/partners/description/NSA.htm   (229 words)

  
 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository for these materials.
The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats.
The Archive's approximately $2.3 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues and from private philanthropists such as the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
zillman.blogspot.com /2005/02/national-security-archive.html   (391 words)

  
 The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
While the Archive recognizes the legitimate need for certain national security information to be protected and controlled by the government while events are taking place, experience has shown that much of what is originally classified can shortly thereafter be safely declassified for public release.
The majority of documents in the collection originated in the State Department, the National Security Council, or at U.S. embassies abroad.
Researchers wishing to study materials in the Archive reading room have access to an online database containing all of the information in the published volumes accompanying this document set, as well as a substantial amount of cataloged information about documents that is too lengthy to reproduce in the published document catalog.
nsarchive.chadwyck.com /cmintro.htm   (2313 words)

  
 The Dominion: US Role in 1964 Brazilian Military Coup Revealed: National Security Archive
» National Security Archive: Kissinger to Argentines on Dirty War: "The Quicker You Succeed the Better"
Recently declassified documents posted online by the Washington-based National Security Archive (NSA) revealed the full extent of US support for the 1964 ouster of Brazilian President Joao Goulart.
According to the NSA's documents, Johnson feared Brazil becoming "the China of the 1960s." President Goulart was known to be friendly to labour unions, limited the profits multinational corporations could remove from Brazil, and had plans to trade with communist countries.
dominionpaper.ca /international_news/2004/04/06/us_role_in.html   (525 words)

  
 National Security
The Office of Security in the U.S. Department of Energy develops strategies and policies governing the protection of national security and other critical assets entrusted to the Department of Energy
GlobalSecurity.org is focused on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium.
The immediate impetus, however, was the cataclysm of World War I and the realization by a few leaders that some security must be provided against future wars.
resourcehelp.com /gov_secur.htm   (309 words)

  
 Charity Navigator Rating - National Security Archive Fund
The National Security Archive Fund exclusively promotes research and public education on U.S. governmental and national security decision-making, as well as openness in government and government accountability by making government information more widely available to the public.
The Fund administers the financial affairs of the National Security Archive, which combines a unique range of functions in one non-governmental institution.
Charity Navigator Rating - National Security Archive Fund
www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/6048.htm   (246 words)

  
 National Security Archive
On 27 July 2001, the National Security Archive posted on the Web "one of two State Department documentary histories whose release the [CIA] is stalling....
The National Security Archive obtained the Indonesia volume...
This site describes a collection of documents for sale by the National Security Archive.
intellit.muskingum.edu /alpha_folder/N_folder/natsecarc.htm   (360 words)

  
 Alsos: Cold War National Security Archive
This website contains transcribed interviews conducted by the National Security Archive at Geroge Washington University for the CNN documentary Cold War.
Of special interest for the history of atomic weapons is Episode 8, which features interviews with scientists involved in the atomic weapons program of the United States; they include Harold Agnew, Joseph Rotblat, Edward Teller, and Herbert York.
The time frame that the interviews address spans from the end of World War II to the breakup of the Soviet Union.
alsos.wlu.edu /information.aspx?id=1710   (97 words)

  
 RA: MKULTRA de-classified documents
The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation under the FOIA and sought a centralized repository for these materials.
The National Security Archive is a non-governmental research institute and library that collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfische, and electronic formats.
This is the inventory list of donated materials in the National Security Archive's collection, from John Marks' FOIA request results which he used to do research for his book The Search For The Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences.
www.nemasys.com /rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml   (834 words)

  
 Digital National Security Archive Database Description
The Digital National Security Archive contains over 40,000 U.S. government documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Archive is grouped into subject collections with new ones being added annually.
Note: Use of this resource is restricted to current University of Pittsburgh faculty, students, and staff, and may be used for individual research purposes only.
www.library.pitt.edu /articles/database_info/dnsa.html   (132 words)

  
 The Death of Che Guevara
As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, the National Security Archive's Cuba Documentation Project is posting a selection of key CIA, State Department, and Pentagon documentation relating to Guevara and his death.
This electronic documents book is compiled from declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive, and by authors of two new books on Guevara: Jorge Casta±eda's Compa±ero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Knoph), and Henry Butterfield Ryan's The Fall of Che Guevara (Oxford University Press).
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 5
www.freestone.com /che.html   (4999 words)

  
 Jack R. Hunt Library - DB - Digital National Security Archive Online Instructions
Digital National Security Archive provides access to a searchable collection of over 40,000 of the most important primary documents central to US foreign and military policy.
Locate Digital National Security Archive from the alphabetical list at the top of the page and click on the name.
Digital National Security Archives provides online Help for use while searching the database.
amelia.db.erau.edu /db/ref/tuts/dnsaref.htm   (892 words)

  
 Digital National Security Archive Online, Home Page
Through its FOIA expertise, the Archive has built what the Christian Science Monitor called "the largest collection of contemporary declassified national security information outside the United States Government." Find out more about the National Security Archive at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv.
About the National Security Archive: Founded in 1985, the National Security Archive has developed a reputation as the most prolific and successful user of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
New collections are published annually by ProQuest and the National Security Archive.
nsarchive.chadwyck.com   (190 words)

  
 RAND Research Areas National Security Archive Lecture on Facial Recognition
RAND > Research Areas > National Security > Archives > Article
Wayman explained that TSWG is responsible for conducting the national RandD program for combating terrorism through "rapid research, development and prototyping." One of the major missions of the group is the "detection, identification, and surveillance of terrorists" - a task in which biometric facial recognition could play an important part.
It is of critical importance that the capabilities of systems and potential ways of applying those capabilities are appropriately matched to security and surveillance needs so that individuals neither expect too much or too little from these emerging technological tools.
www.rand.org /natsec_area/products/facialrecog.html   (895 words)

  
 National Security Archive MetaFilter
George Washington University's National Security Archive carries a collection of declassified US documents and articles on Saddam Hussein; Mexico, Cuba and other Latin American countries; Nixon's meeting with Elvis; the CIA and Nazi war criminals; etc.
FYI: the National Security Archive predates the web by a number of years.
Cheers, plep - that Elvis/Nixon archive is a classic...
www.metafilter.com /mefi/39462   (416 words)

  
 Chadwyck-Healey :: Digital National Security Archive
Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.
Published with the cooperation of the National Security Archive.
In its totality, the DNSA offers the most effective research and teaching tool available in the area of U.S. foreign policy, intelligence, and security issues during this pivotal period of 20th century history, and into the 21st century.
www.proquest.com /products/pt-product-DNSA.shtml   (363 words)

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