Category Archives: Special Projects
“Reportable Information”
(In honor of Sunshine Week, I am proud to present NDC staff member England Reeder as our guest blogger today to write about a project on which he has been working that is close to public release.) Judge Merrick Garland collected … Continue reading
Posted in New Openings, Special Projects
Tagged 1970s, 1980s, Department of Justice, Merrick Garland
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The Weapons Systems Evaluation Group
Those who work in government and in the private sector supporting government are very familiar with the term “think tank”, a slang expression dating from World War II that denoted an organization filled with “idea men” that sat around desks … Continue reading
Posted in Aerospace Technology, Military Technology, New Openings, Special Projects
Tagged Cold War, continental air defense, new release, WSEG
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Djakarta Embassy Record Series Now Available Via the National Archives Catalog
The National Declassification Center is proud to announce that the contents of the newly-declassified Classified Central Subject Files of the U.S. Embassy Djakarta, Indonesia, 1963-1969 are now available via the National Archives Catalog. This record series, digitized through the kind … Continue reading
NDC Releases U.S. Embassy Djakarta Records
The National Declassification Center, in partnership with the privately-operated National Security Archive, is proud to announce the release of a record series that has been the object of interest for a number of researchers worldwide. The records, formally titled … Continue reading
Posted in Indonesia, New Openings, Special Projects
Tagged 1960s, Indonesia, new release, U.S. Embassies
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Joseph B. Kennedy and the Jet Speed Air Cushion Rail System
In the NDC’s last blog entry, readers discovered from the records of the United States Embassy Djakarta, how an embassy goes about its mission to protect American citizens living in a foreign country during times of trouble. This entry will … Continue reading
Posted in Indonesia, Special Projects
Tagged 1960s, Indonesia, Indonesian Development Corporation, State Department, U.S. Embassies
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The Curious Case of Harold Lovestrand
Summers in Indonesia are notoriously hot, which is not really much of a surprise for a nation of islands that straddles the equator. The summer of 1965 was much hotter if you were an American in Indonesia. In August of … Continue reading
Posted in Indonesia, Special Projects
Tagged 1960s, Harold Lovestrand, Indonesia, U.S. Embassies
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New Katyń Documents Declassified in 2013 and 2014
This post comes from Dr. Amanda Weimer, an Archives Specialist with the National Declassification Center. Two groups of additional records have been declassified within the past year as part of the ongoing efforts of the National Declassification Center to declassify all … Continue reading
Posted in New Openings, Special Projects
Berlin Symposium: A City Divided: Life and Death in the Shadow of the Wall: POSTPONED
Due to the ongoing government shutdown, the Berlin Symposium scheduled for October 16 at the National Archives Building has been postponed. Once the government reopens, we will post a new date for the symposium here.
Posted in NDC Communication, Special Projects
Berlin Symposium: A City Divided: Life and Death in the Shadow of the Wall"
Today’s post comes to us from NDC blogger Neil Carmichael. On October 16, 2013 at 0900 a.m. the National Declassification Center at the National Archives, in partnership with the Historical Review Program of the CIA, will host a one-day symposium … Continue reading
Posted in New Openings, Special Projects
Tagged Berlin, CIA, Cold War, history, NDC, President F. Kennedy, President Ronald Reagan.
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USS Pueblo Ship Plans
Today’s NDC Blog post concerns a painful episode in modern U.S. history, an earlier chapter of a story that has been in the news frequently over the past months. On January 23, 1968, units of the North Korean Navy captured the … Continue reading
Posted in Special Projects
Tagged Intelligence, North Korea, USS Pueblo
