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  1. Cuba: Declassified Records on the #BrothersToTheRescue Shootdown
    On Eve of #RaulCastro Indictment, Archive Posts Declassified #FAA Documents on Events Leading to Shootdown of Cuban Exile Planes
    FAA Emails Foresaw “Worst Case Scenario”
    “One of these days the Cubans will shoot down one of these planes”

    nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo

    from #NationalSecurityArchive
    May 19, 2026

    FAA emails, memos, and communications recorded concerns among high-level Clinton administration officials that repeated penetrations of Cuban airspace would eventually lead to a crisis if #Cuba acted to protect its territorial integrity from provocative BTTR incursions. “A major fear is the possible downing of a BTTR aircraft by land-based gunfire,” a summary of an August 1995 meeting with White House officials stated.

    The documents offer a detailed historical context in which the aerial violence against the civilian aircraft occurred.

    #NoWarOnCuba
    #OilForCuba!
    #EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
    #news #politics #USpol #US

  2. #USA : #History / #Government / #Climate / #nationalsecurityarchive

    „Nixon Science Adviser: Become “Snow-Tripping Mastodons” or “Grow Gills” to Survive Sea-Level Rise

    Costs of Climate Study “Not Quantifiable” Since “Man’s Very Survival” at Stake

    “Burning of Fossil Fuels” Main Cause of Growing “Instability”

    (...)

    High-level officials inside the Nixon administration debated climate change (...) as early as 1969...”

    nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo

  3. CW: Cold War documents from the National Security Archive

    If you are interested in history or lived through part of the Cold War and want to see how it influenced current events then there are two sets of documents just published by the National Security Archive at George Washington University which are worth the time:

    * "Henry Kissinger’s Documented Legacy" - A Declassified Dossier on HAK’s Controversial Historical Legacy, on His 100th Birthday
    Kissinger’s 8 Years in Power Changed Chile, Cambodia, East Timor, Angola, and Much of the World, for the Worse¹.

    * "Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1983" - At the Central Committee: “what a humiliating role I am in, doing everything I can to dress a naked, completely naked king”
    KAL shootdown “showcased with monstrous obviousness the power and pressure of the ‘military complex’ over our entire life and politics”
    On nuclear war: “this vast world, full of fantastic achievements of the human mind and labor, can in a few short minutes fall victim to a nervous breakdown of one of the two ‘superpower’ leaders”².

    #Kissinger #Chernayaev #NationalSecurityArchive #GWU #ColdWar

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    ¹ nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo
    ² nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo