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
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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
ISCAP Appeal Release Laos 1961
On July 8th, 2024, the staff of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) posted a new declassified document on our website. The released documents outline the United States and Thai covert action in Laos in 1961 under the John F. Kennedy administration known as MILLPOND. During this time, Laos was split into different institutions … Continue reading ISCAP Appeal Release Laos 1961
9/11 Commission Records Declassified by the ISCAP
In November 2020 the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) decided on appeal 2012-156, an appeal for 26 documents created by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, now in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration. These documents were declassified in January 2021 … Continue reading 9/11 Commission Records Declassified by the ISCAP
Soviet Chemical Weapons and Redaction Realities
Recently the staff of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) posted a new declassified document on our website. The document, posted in two parts due to its file size, is posted at https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/iscap/2012-071-doc-1-part-1.pdf and https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/iscap/2012-071-doc-1-part-2.pdf It is a report by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), dated July 31, 1984, entitled, "Soviet Doctrine for Chemical Warfare Against NATO … Continue reading Soviet Chemical Weapons and Redaction Realities
ISCAP Release Provides Oral History of Distinguished Career in Nuclear Detection Technology
The newly declassified transcript of an oral history interview conducted in 1973 with United States Air Force scientist Doyle Northrup has been posted by the ISCAP Staff on its webpage. The document can be viewed here. The document, tracked as appeal 2015-107, is remarkable in two primary respects. First, it is a comprehensive first-person account of … Continue reading ISCAP Release Provides Oral History of Distinguished Career in Nuclear Detection Technology
ISCAP Resumes Posting of Declassified Documents
ISCAP Resumes Posting of Declassified Documents In April 2021 the staff of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) resumed the posting on its website of documents the ISCAP declassified. The latest documents posted, from appeal 2011-003, are two National Intelligence Estimates concerning the space program of the Soviet Union in 1969 and 1971. The ISCAP voted … Continue reading ISCAP Resumes Posting of Declassified Documents
The Pandemic and ISCAP Operations – A One Year Update, March 2021
In July 2020 I posted a status update on the impact of the Government facility closures caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic on the work of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP). It has now been just over a year since those closures began. In the late summer of 2020, the leadership of the … Continue reading The Pandemic and ISCAP Operations – A One Year Update, March 2021