THE REAL SMOKING GUN.www.gwu.edu/[sim]nsarchiv (English) A popular U.S. website, www.thesmokinggun.com, promises plenty of dish on celebrities by putting their public documents on the web. Here, George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. does the same to the U.S. State A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and Department. The site is easy to navigate and its editors offer brief, well-written guides, then, WHAM! there it is: Che Guevara's autopsy, machine typed and scrawled with official signatures; briefings on the summary executions of leftists in Chile; documentation of Kennedy's attempts to improve relations with Castro. Lots of stuff here on China, Europe and our nuclear nightmares, but Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. and U.S. policy get no short shrift. Absorbing and worth revisiting, as documents get declassified de·clas·si·fy tr.v. de·clas·si·fied, de·clas·si·fy·ing, de·clas·si·fies To remove official security classification from (a document). de·clas all the time. |
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