UAC-0006 joint report, 2023: 27 chains catalogued, operators unnamed

What the Record Actually Is The joint analytical report produced by Ukraine’s Cyber Incidents Response Operational Centre (CIROC, a unit within the State Cyber Protection Centre of Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, abbreviated SSSCIP) and Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team carries a December 2023 publication date. The two … Read more

Chernyaev’s 1983 Diary: Three Passages, No Full Record

The Publication The National Security Archive at George Washington University has released English-language volumes of Anatoly Chernyaev’s private diary each May 25 since 2012, choosing that date because it is also Chernyaev’s birthday. On May 25, 2023, the series reached the 1983 volume, translated by Anna Melyakova and described by the Archive as appearing in … Read more

MQ-9 Footage, March 2023: What the Declassified Record Does and Does Not Show

Stuttgart, March 16, 2023 Three items constitute the official documentary record of the Black Sea intercept: a declassified video, a storyboard of still images drawn from the same footage, and a press release. All three were published on March 16, 2023, by U.S. European Command, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. These documents are what the record … Read more

Football Files: U.S. Officials Doubted the Nuclear Codes’ Legal Basis

The Football’s Legal Problem What the National Security Archive Published The National Security Archive is an independent research institute at George Washington University. It collects declassified records, primarily through Freedom of Information Act requests, and makes them publicly available. On July 18, 2023, the Archive published Electronic Briefing Book No. 834, edited by senior analyst … Read more