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JFK Records Act Releases: 11-17 Update

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Robert

[Corrected 1/19/2018] That was fast. NARA released another set of JFKRA documents on November 17. According to NARA’s press release, there 10744 documents in this set (144 previously withheld in full, 10600 withheld in part), all from the FBI. Once … Continue reading →

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The 2017 JFK Records Act releases at NARA: Q & A

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Robert

After looking at Harold Weisberg’s archive last year, I became interested in the JFK assassination, a subject I had never really looked at before. The recent NARA release of documents under the JFK Records Act, which was supposed to be … Continue reading →

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“I have always had adequate sex that no one appreciated”: The best of Studies in Intelligence

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Robert

Taking a 10 minute pause from grading final exams, I would like to announce that the Warren will begin a new series introducing government funded fun and enlightenment from Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s in-house journal. While there is much … Continue reading →

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Chiang Kai-shek Meets Tu Yueh-sheng

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Robert

This note picks up from my last post on the sources and claims of Sterling Seagrave’s 1985 book, The Soong Dynasty (SD). SD enjoyed a fourteen-week run on the New York Times best-seller list and launched Seagrave’s career as a … Continue reading →

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Two sources for the Weisberg Collection

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Robert

There are currently two places to get materials from the Weisberg collection. The main source is naturally the website that Hood College set up for the collection.  The second source is Archive.org. The Archive.org now has a “copy” of the … Continue reading →

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The Weisberg Collection

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Robert

While looking up some names from articles in Studies in Intelligence, I ran into another interesting on-line resource: the Harold Weisberg Archive, hosted at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. When a number of CIA names kept turning up at the … Continue reading →

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Notes on Studies in Intelligence

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Robert

I’ve read a bit more from and about Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s in-house intelligence journal (not that much, put down that blindfold and cigarette).  A few random notes on this for today. The most interesting discovery was the SI … Continue reading →

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Idle reading

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Robert

I confess to reading stuff on the internet when I should be working. Before you drag me off and shoot me, try this site. What is this? It is a sortable index to every article that has been declassified from … Continue reading →

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A Historical Relic?

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Robert

I recently ran across the Qing Research Portal, a website which unfortunately has stopped updating. It offers the “ECCP Reader”, an electronic version of Hummel’s Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period, but the Windows version is not available, so I … Continue reading →

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The Green Gang and the Blue Villa

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Robert

Over the last four or five years, I’ve put in many hours looking at the details of Sterling Seagrave’s 1985 book, The Soong Dynasty. The book describes the rise and fall of China’s influential Soong family, and its connections with … Continue reading →

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