By Ms. Jenny Namsiriwan Crabb The National Archives has numerous gems in its collection. We are discovering more of them as we continue our work in the National Declassification Center. I discovered one such gem as I was working with a project regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis in February 2012. The collection in its entirety … Continue reading Cuban Missile Crisis
Today's post comes to us from NDC blogger Neil Carmichael. On October 27, 2011, the National Declassification Center held a one-day conference on the Berlin Crisis of 1961. The conference focused on events leading up to and following the Vienna summit between Khrushchev and Kennedy, the height of tension during August with the construction of the wall … Continue reading Berlin Crisis Video on C-Span
Today's post comes to us from NDC blogger Neil Carmichael. The autumn of 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the political crisis that resulted in the erection of the Berlin Wall and created a divided city for 28 years. The National Declassification Center of the National Archives and Records Administration and the Historical Publications Office … Continue reading Berlin Crisis of 1961 Conference: "Building the Wall, From Vienna to Checkpoint Charlie"
While Internet history is a hot topic and the subject of numerous books and articles, bits and pieces of the story still come up in the records we review for declassification. The phenomenon and accomplishment that is the Internet has been such a successful endeavor that there have been many parents claiming credit for it. … Continue reading The (Not So Smooth) Road to the Internet
Today's post comes to us from NDC blogger Neil Carmichael. The National Declassification Center will be holding a declassification conference from November 7 - 10, 2011, at the National Archives II at College Park. The theme of the conference is “Releasing and Protecting National Security Information through Declassification.” The conference is in keeping with the … Continue reading National Declassification Center November 2011 Conference
The pending release of the Report of the OSD Vietnam Task Force (aka the Pentagon Papers) has brought forth the question of relevancy. After all the Papers were made public 40 years ago, right? What’s the big deal? The fact of the matter is that no one, outside the people properly cleared to view Top … Continue reading The Real Pentagon Papers
NARA is planning a digital/textual release of the Pentagon Papers for the week of June 13, 2011. This simultaneous release will be conducted by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, and the National Declassification Center at College Park.
Today's post comes to us from NDC blogger Neil Carmichael. The National Declassification Center's Indexing and Declassification Review division has recently finished screening 250,000 pages of United States Marine Corps records from the Korean War. The documents released include Air and Ground unit diaries, primarily between 1950 and 1953. Over 60 years ago, the 1st Marine … Continue reading 1st Marine Division in the “Battle of Chosin Reservoir”
I want to update everyone on our progress on this project with the great news that the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) has declassified the information of interest to them in the Report of the Vietnam Study Task Force. Since the Report was an OSD product, they retained considerable interest in every volume … Continue reading Pentagon Papers Project Update
In a follow on to the announcement that the NDC Director Sheryl J. Shenberger made in her Second Bi-Annual Report, I am presenting an outline of the Pentagon Paper Project. A Short History There is a considerable body of literature that discusses what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, so I will not … Continue reading Pentagon Papers Project
