For        Immediate Release:
       May 8, 2008
       Washington Post Profiles the Archive

           http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20080508/index.htm

             Documents "nothing short of astonishing"
       For more information contact:
         Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
                                                                                             Read the article from The Washington Post
             "Top Secret: Eyes Only [Redacted]
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               By Peter Carlson
                   The Washington Post
           May 8, 2008
                                                         Washington                        DC, May 8, 2008 - Today's Washington  Post devotes the cover of its Style section and a full inside page to the  National Security Archive, which the Post calls "the house that FOIA built and a mecca for document buffs."

                   For the full text, photos and graphics, see the article on washingtonpost.com.
                   Reporter Peter Carlson calls Archive staff "a good advertisement for the dubious proposition that spending your entire adult life poring through government documents has a fountain-of-youth effect."

                     Among the Archive documents cited by the Post are the following:
                                                                                                                                                                                        Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983. Video of the handshake and memos from the meeting are available on the Archive Web site.

                                                           The Nixon-Elvis File

                       The CIA study of assassinations

                       The National Security Agency Gulf of Tonkin study

                       The "Polo Step" PowerPoint war plan for invading Iraq

                       The CIA Family Jewels

                     The 2007 "Defeating An Insurgency: Seminar War Game" (See also a previous Washington Post article on Iraq war games.)

                       White House E-Mail

                       Jenny Holzer's projections of Archive documents

                       The DIA profile of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet

                     CIA's secret history of the 1953 coup in Iran
                   January 2001 Richard Clarke memo to Condoleezza Rice on al-Qaeda
                   Donald Rumsfeld's 1983 meeting with Saddam Hussein
                   1994 Pentagon memo on jamming of radio broadcasts in Rwanda
                   The Archive's 20th anniversary posting: "20 years of 'Unearthing Major Revelations'"

                                                  Tell the world: My America Doesn't Torture!

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