Background The following document was requested through a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request by The Black Vault in February 2019. The records was released at an unknown previous date, but had some of the report redacted. The MDR was a success, and some of those redactions were lifted on the June 2019 released by the NSA to The Black Vault. I put a “highlighted” version below so you can see the newly released information. Document Archive National Security Agency / Central Security Service Transition 2001, December 2000 [45 Pages, 13MB] National Security Agency / Central Security Service Transition 2001, December…
Author: John Greenewald
Background This is the “Terrorism Review” for January 1999, as created by the CIA and released to The Black Vault in June of 2019. The result was from a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request. The record had been released in July of 2011, but had many more redactions. The 2019 release was successful in getting many of them lifted. I put a ‘clean’ version below, along with a highlighted version showing the new information released (information that was previously redacted.) Document Archive Terrorism Review for January 1999, CIA – June 2019 Release – [39 Pages, 10MB] Terrorism Review for January 1999,…
Background PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGAD US-984XN. PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google LLC under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms. Among other things, the NSA can use these PRISM requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the internet backbone, to focus on stored data that…
Background Memorandum for Director, CIA Reconnaissance Programs – OPS NRO Quarterly Report on NRP Satellite Systems, July 28, 1969 Document Archive Memorandum for Director, CIA Reconnaissance Programs – OPS NRO Quarterly Report on NRP Satellite Systems, July 28, 1969 [27 Pages, 8MB]
Background This is the Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents for 1976. Document Archive Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents, 1976 [196 Pages, 100MB]