Land, landlessness and the Namibian #genocide
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/03/land-landlessness-and-the-namibian-genocide
A scene in the outstretched countryside of #Namibia, 2016. A dusty cattle auction is taking place on the edge of the Kalahari desert. Skinny cows are paraded in front of the tribune with buyers: about a dozen slightly overweight white men in khakis. The larger group of sellers on the tribune opposite consists exclusively of…
Discrètement, au milieu de la fureur médiatique, le gouvernement états-unien ajoute quelques pelletées de terre sur le cercueil du grand homme et déclassifie pour la première fois les photos satellites du site d’expériences nucléaires du Kalahari (août 1977)
Proliferation Watch : US Intelligence Assessments of Potential Nuclear Powers, 1977–2001 | Wilson Center
▻http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/proliferation-watch-us-intelligence-assessments-potential-nuclear-powe
The Soviet Union assisted the United States in its effort to curb South Africa’s nuclear program in August 1977 when Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev sent President Jimmy Carter a message that Moscow’s spy satellites had noticed signs of nuclear weapons test preparations at a site in the Kalahari Desert. Very quickly the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) directed spy satellites to photograph the site which intelligence analysts later agreed was geared to nuclear testing. The U.S. government has declassified some of those satellite photographs for the first time.
Dans le même ordre d’idées, la (re)déclassification du rapport sur l’incident de Vela dont on causait hier ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/209667
Avec des incohérences dans le caviardage…
Proliferation Watch : U.S. Intelligence Assessments of Potential Nuclear Powers, 1977-2001
▻http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb451
This release includes a heavily excised version of the Director of Central Intelligence report from December 1979 titled The 22 September 1979 Event, referring to the controversial mystery flash over the South Atlantic, which may have been a nuclear test. The massively excised version of the report published today includes previously unreleased material. However, most of the withheld information — including analysis of whether Israel, South Africa or both were behind the event — was declassified by the CIA years ago. This discrepancy is a prime example of both the enduring problem of over-classification and of the U.S. government’s great difficulty in making consistently rational declassification decisions.
The 22 September 1979 Event
Information available as of December 1979
Début de la version publiée en juin 2004 ▻http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB190/03.pdf
Version du 16 décembre 2013 (la nouvelle revue de déclassification est datée de juillet-août 2011) ▻http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb451/docs/6A.pdf
