Jan 12th, 2008 · A National Security Agency report released this week details intelligence communications, hoaxes and occasional mishaps during the Vietnam War. National Security Archives historian John Prados discusses what these newly declassified documents say about the U.S. strategy in Vietnam.
Jan 9th, 2007 · On New Year's Day, millions of confidential documents were officially declassified. The move followed a decade-old deadline from former President Bill Clinton mandating that 25-year-old documents automatically be made public. The director of National Security Archives and an archivist at the National Archives discuss document declassification.
Jul 7th, 2006 · Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria was arrested last Friday on charges of genocide in the 1968 massacre of student protesters in Mexico City, part of what became known as the "Dirty War." Echeverria declared his innocence in court on Wednesday. Robert Siegel talks with Kate Doyle, director of the Mexico Documentation Project at George Washington University's National Security Archives.
Feb 21st, 2006 · Government agencies have taken tens of thousands of pages of declassified documents off the shelves of the National Archives in the past few years. Thomas Blanton, Director of the National Security Archives at George Washington University, talks with Melissa Block about a program that advocates for more public access to government information.