Dept Of Secrets

When America Became a Cyberwarrior

A secret document shows the NSA has been planning attacks since the Clinton years.

BY JEFFREY T. RICHELSON, MALCOLM BYRNE | APRIL 26, 2013

Will Chinese Troops Cross the Yalu?

U.S. intelligence looks at Beijing's military options in North Korea.

BY ROBERT A. WAMPLER | APRIL 11, 2013

Thatcher's Foreign Policy 'Failure'

She wanted Gorbachev to stop the reunification of Germany.

BY TOM BLANTON, SVETLANA SAVRANSKAYA | APRIL 9, 2013

A Clear View from Foggy Bottom

How State Department analysts  -- and no one else -- foresaw the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

BY WILLIAM BURR | MARCH 5, 2013

Our Man in Havana

Was USAID planning to overthrow Castro?

BY PETER KORNBLUH | JANUARY 25, 2013

The 'Dynamite' Pentagon Interview Behind 'Zero Dark Thirty'

Michael Vickers 'delivered' for the movie.

BY NATE JONES | JANUARY 17, 2013

The Plan to Stop Green-on-Blue Violence

The Pentagon’s secret PowerPoint on Afghan insider attacks.

BY NATE JONES | JANUARY 3, 2013

The U.S. Plan to Nuke Everyone

Why LBJ vetoed the Dr. Strangelove option.

BY WILLIAM BURR | DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Kissinger Transcripts

Why the former secretary of state thought the CIA was blackmailing him.

BY TOM BLANTON | NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Still 'Secret' After All These Years

Why do Pentagon securocrats continue to censor well-known, publicly available information?

BY WILLIAM BURR | OCTOBER 26, 2012

The True Spy Story Behind Argo

The internal CIA account of how the Iran rescue really went down. 

BY NATE JONES | OCTOBER 18, 2012

Cuba Almost Became a Nuclear Power in 1962

The scariest moment in history was even scarier than we thought.

BY SVETLANA SAVRANSKAYA | OCTOBER 10, 2012

History Repeats Itself as Tragedy

The must-read secret Pentagon memo on Syria's 1982 massacre.

BY TOM BLANTON | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

How to Fight a Nuclear War

Revealed: Jimmy Carter's strategy for Armageddon. (We're still using it.)

BY WILLIAM BURR | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

A Classified CIA Mea Culpa on Iraq

In this exclusive from the National Security Archive, a secret agency report on its WMD failures is published for the first time.

BY TOM BLANTON | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012