Background This National Intelligence Daily was issued on April 24, 1980. It appears in the CIA’s CREST database, as CREST #0005148740. Originally, it was released in 2010 with heavy redactions. In June of 2019, I requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR), and in March of 2020 – the CIA released the below version with less redactions. Document Archive National Intelligence Daily – June 2, 1990 – 2020 Release – [26 Pages, 11MB]
Author: John Greenewald
Background This article was written for the CIA Studies in Intelligence. The author was Benjamin B. Fischer. In August of 2019, The Black Vault requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request on this document, which was previously released, though was redacted in many parts. The MDR was responded to in March of 2020, and did reveal some new information never before revealed. That part was the following paragraph, speaking about a 1981 KGB ‘esimate’ that had a drastic change on how the Soviet Union viewed itself when contrasting to previous estimates created in the 1970s. This was the newly revealed…
Background by John Greenewald, Jr. — Originally Published 5/16/2016 While investigating the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and their records on UFOs and the paranormal, I came across one report which referenced “Paranormal” activity around flights of the Blue Angels. What I could deduce from the report, is that the eyewitness to the anomalies, confronted a Blue Angel Lieutenant regarding what she saw at a fast food restaurant. After the officer excused himself and the rest of the crew, the same pilot was confronted the next day at the air show – this time on the tarmac after a flight…
Background In August of 2015, I filed a FOIA request for records pertaining to the policy or memorandum of agreement that covers and deals with interactions between CIA staff and the agency’s Office of Inspector General. It would take nearly five years for the records to be released, and when they were, it revealed four different agency regulations, previous unreleased. They are: AR 1-24 — Office of the Inspector General AR 3-51 — Protecting Whistleblowers with Access to Classified Information AR 13-6 — Employee and Contractor Communications with Congress AR 13-7 — Reporting Alleged Misconduct of Wrongdoing by Current or…
Background At the request of the Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State, this. 6.2(d) Intelligence Community Assessment (lCA) examines the internal dynamics of Iraq that will frame the challenges for whatever government succeeds the regime of Saddam Husayn. It discusses the main political, economic, humanitarian, and security issues inside Iraq that are likely to demand attention during approximately the first three to five years after Saddam departs. In particular, it looks at the prospects for representative government in Iraq and at the ethnic, tribal, and religious forces that will affect its development. Document Archive Principal Challenges in…