On March 16th, 2026, the ISCAP released one document from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. This document is a memorandum of a meeting that Gordan Gray, Special Assistant to the President, had with the President informing him of US efforts to strengthen the leadership of the right-wing Japanese Socialist Party. The ISCAP decided to … Continue reading ISCAP Appeal 2018-087
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ISCAP Appeal 2018-086
On March 16th, 2026, the ISCAP released four documents from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. These documents note the aftermath the month following the conflict in Tibet in 1959 from the perspective of the United States. Document 1 is a memorandum by DCI Allen W. Dulles informing the White House Staff Secretary that the … Continue reading ISCAP Appeal 2018-086
ISCAP Appeal 2018-051
On March 16th, 2026, the ISCAP released this document from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This is an article about the life, service, and disappearance of Jim Thompson. The ISCAP decided to declassify some portions and affirm the classification of other portions of this originally Secret document. Thompson was a former OSS agent and founder … Continue reading ISCAP Appeal 2018-051
ISCAP Appeal 2016-138
On March 16th, 2026, the ISCAP released this document from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. These two documents are a memorandum and an attachment from the CIA to the President just days before the kickoff of the Six-Day War. Document 1, the memo, summarizes document 2, a personal conversation DCI Richard Helms had with … Continue reading ISCAP Appeal 2016-138
ISCAP Appeal 2016-119
On March 16th, 2026, the ISCAP released two documents from the Department of Defense. These documents present the behind-the-scenes work done by the US government to ensure peaceful state visits with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Document 1 outlines the requirements given to North Korea for the US to consider taking them off the … Continue reading ISCAP Appeal 2016-119
ISCAP Appeal 2015-132
On March 16th, 2026, the ISCAP released two documents from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. These documents are memoranda detailing US response to the Iraqi-Kurdish conflict. Document 1 details aid given to Iraq in 1963 in an effort to break Iraq away from Soviet influence. The ISCAP decided to declassify this Secret document in … Continue reading ISCAP Appeal 2015-132
ISCAP Releases from January 2025
On January 2, 2025, the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) released appeal decisions on seven subjects. Military Movements in Rwanda and Ugandan Involvement In 1993, a civil war was going on between the government’s armed forces and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Rwanda and Uganda requested the deployment of military observers along the … Continue reading ISCAP Releases from January 2025
ISCAP Releases from November 2024
On November 11, 2024, the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) released appeal decisions on five subjects. Cable from Scowcroft to Butler, 1989 The cable fromNational Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft in 1989 is a Top Secret document and its classification was affirmed in its entirety. Background Data, South Vietnam In 1963, a group of South … Continue reading ISCAP Releases from November 2024
ISCAP Appeal Release on Cablegram to National Security Council, 1953
The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) reviewed an appeal regarding the declassification of the 1953 cablegram to the National Security Council (NSC). On July 8, 2024, the ISCAP made the decision to declassify some portions and affirm the classification of other portions, declassify some documents in full and declassify some documents in its entirety. … Continue reading ISCAP Appeal Release on Cablegram to National Security Council, 1953
ISCAP Appeal Release on CIA History 1999
The Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) reviewed an appeal regarding the declassification of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) internal history “Hearts and Minds: Three Case Studies of the CIA’s Covert Support of American Anti-Communist Groups in the Cold War 1949 - 1967,” by Michael Warner. The ISCAP decided to declassify additional information in the … Continue reading ISCAP Appeal Release on CIA History 1999