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7️⃣ es un número mágico✨ y 7️⃣ son las nominaciones de en los 🙌🏽.
🗯️En la categoría ‘Narrativo de no ficción’:
👉🏼 'Después de Ayotzinapa', un podcast con nuevos hallazgos sobre la desaparición de 43 estudiantes en Guerrero, México.
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This is painful to read; so many possibilities.
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NEW: The First Months of U.S. Relations with the New Russia, 1992
- Russian President Proposed Far-Reaching Nuclear Reductions, Bush Not So Sure
#FOIA #Russia #history #archives
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/
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Ukraine comes up in almost all of the conversations, released thanks to #FOIA requests from
- Russian leaders were sensitive to Ukrainian concerns but saw Ukraine as the "main destabilizing factor"
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A 100 meses de la desaparición forzada de los 43 normalistas de Ayotzinapa desde Washington DC, no olvidamos.
Gracias , y por organizar esta conversación.
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Should NARA Ask Living Former Presidents and VPs to Search Personal Holdings for Classified Info?
We are excited to announce that the Jan. 26 #AfterAyotzinapa event with 's , , and
is SOLD OUT - but walk-ins are welcome as space permits.
More information on the event here:
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The has named our #AfterAyotzinapa series, produced in partnership w/, as one of its favorite investigative podcasts of 2022.
“A moving podcast, with impeccable production values and a talented, bilingual female investigative reporter...”
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.'s gave expert testimony before the Court in February 2022, addressing the right to truth and the right to information – including military archives – in cases of grave human rights crimes and crimes against humanity.
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"The sentence in Flores Bedregal v. Bolivia... represents the first time the regional court has insisted that a member state has an obligation to guarantee the right to truth by releasing military documents."
#FOIA #HumanRights
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia-huma
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"The sentence in Flores Bedregal v. Bolivia... represents the first time the regional court has insisted that a member state has an obligation to guarantee the right to truth by releasing military documents."
#FOIA #HumanRights
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NEW: Inter-American Court Orders Opening of Military Archives
- State of Bolivia Must Guarantee Right to Truth in Forced Disappearance Case
#FOIA #HumanRights #Bolivia
Read the rest from @doylekate and Claire Dorfman here:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia-huma
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NEW: Inter-American Court Orders Opening of Military Archives
- State of Bolivia Must Guarantee Right to Truth in Forced Disappearance Case
#FOIA #HumanRights #Bolivia
Read the rest from and Claire Dorfman here:
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📍🇺🇸 & invite you to the in-person event in D.C. #AfterAyotzinapa, a conversation about the podcast that investigates the government cover-up that followed & how this case fits into Mexico’s broader human rights crisis.
🗓1/26
⏰6 pm
wola.org/events/after-a
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Declassified U.S. Intelligence Documents Describe Taliban History with Illicit Narcotics Trade - via #FOIA
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📍🇺🇸 & invite you to the in-person event in D.C. #AfterAyotzinapa, a conversation about the podcast that investigates the government cover-up that followed & how this case fits into Mexico’s broader human rights crisis.
🗓1/26
⏰6 pm
wola.org/events/after-a
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If you're in Washington, D.C., join Reveal's , 's and on Jan. 26 at for a conversation about the Ayotzinapa case and the ongoing crises of forced disappearance and impunity in Mexico.
⬇️ RSVP:
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Inconsistent Access to Visitor Logs Back in the Spotlight, Busboys and Poets Event, and More in this week's secrecy and #FOIA news round-up
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Ding, ding, ding!
"Both cases underscore how the U.S. system of safeguarding classified presidential documents is in urgent need of improvement..." -
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A must read from - PRA needs tightening, classification needs reined in, WH needs to prep better for transitions, and NARA needs more money and tech (esp. at the NDC and ISOO - NARA officials shouldn't have to go to DoD or CIA to review docs)
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Biden admin is working on a new executive order on classification which would allow DOD (not State) to cite "harm to U.S. diplomacy" to withhold historic records. There is pushback from other agencies, but not a good look if one cares about history, #FOIA, or transparency.
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A New Executive Order on Classification Should Not Expand DoD Authority to Censor Diplomatic Info, Biden’s Classified Docs Underscore Need for Reform, and More in this week's #FOIA and secrecy news round-up:
unredacted.com/2023/01/12/a-n
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Join us for a talk on #AfterAyotzinapa with and Jan. 26, 6-8pm! Register at bit.ly/ayotzinapa-dc
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A New Executive Order on Classification Should Not Expand DoD Authority to Censor Diplomatic Info, Biden’s Classified Docs Underscore Need for Reform, and More in this week's #FOIA and secrecy news round-up:
unredacted.com/2023/01/12/a-n
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. named #AfterAyotzinapa, a collaboration between and , one of the best listens of 2022. The six-part Spanish adaptation, Después de Ayotzinapa, was made possible thanks to and - congrats to all!
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NEW: Vilém Prečan @ 90
- salutes the distinguished Czech scholar, partner and inspiration for the Archive, on his 90th birthday: “Na zdraví!”
#FOIA #ColdWarHist #archives #twitterstorians
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As nuclear weapons became integral to the US arsenal, government officials started to realize that an all-out US-Soviet nuclear war would cause "enormous" numbers of casualties.
Read William Burr's latest in
thebulletin.org/2023/01/cold-w
#nuclearweapons
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How did Cold War-era estimates of nuclear war casualties influence policy?
William Burr of the has answers in this new article for the Bulletin.
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Last year, published a collection of declassified documents about this historic event, incl. transcripts of conversations between US and Soviet leaders during the summer and fall of 1991 and translated transcripts of USSR State Council meetings.
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✨ Estuvimos en el Top 10 de Podcasts más escuchados para 8,337 personas.
✨Estuvimos 38 días en distintos rankings de podcasts.
Revive los 6 episodios de #DespuésdeAyotzinapa en : bit.ly/3WpDOjg
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The National Archives Is About to Release More JFK Files. Here’s What to Expect.
(Hint - CIA and FBI still withholding docs)
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This is a must-read from
"DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis is the sole intelligence agency in the U.S. government charged by law with sharing emerging threat information with its vast network..."
But it didn't.
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Updates to National Security Archive’s Cyber Vault Ukraine page
- New documentation added to library on Ukraine conflict
- Cyber timeline of the war now over 155 pages
#FOIA #Cyber #Ukraine
nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/ukrain
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Today we end our series on the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis with a look at how the various actors assessed the outcome. As Khrushchev asked, “How should one assess the result of these six days that shook the world?” “Who won?”
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British Ambassador Herbert Marchant's November 10 cable to London said, regarding Cuba, that it was “better to be humiliated than to be wiped out.”
Read the rest in our latest, "The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60: POSTMORTEMS"
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/
#FOIA #history #ColdWarHist
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The #CubanMissileCrisis @ 60: POSTMORTEMS
- Khrushchev: “We were truly on the verge of war”
- Left in the dark about missile exchange, Pentagon study drew wrong conclusions
- Castro: “A great indignation”
#FOIA #ColdWarHist
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. Launches Newly Designed Russian Pages
- Thousands of Russian-language records now full-text searchable
#research #archives #Russia #twitterstorians
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