Background In 2007, recognizing that intelligence had not yet become central in FBI operations and to accelerate the growth of the Bureau’s intelligence cycle capabilities, the FBI formed a Strategic Execution Team (SET) initially comprised of almost 100 special agents, intelligence analysts, and other skilled professionals from field offices and FBI Headquarters. The SET examined the intelligence activities in each of the 56 field offices and identified two overarching impediments to transformation: integrating intelligence into operations in the field and building human capital for enhanced intelligence capabilities. For example, the SET found that while each field office had a FIG,…
Author: John Greenewald
Background The Plame affair (also known as the CIA leak scandal and Plamegate) was a political scandal that revolved around journalist Robert Novak’s public identification of Valerie Plame as a covert Central Intelligence Agency officer in 2003. In 2002, Plame wrote a memo to her superiors in which she expressed hesitation in recommending her husband, former diplomat Joseph C. Wilson, to the CIA for a mission to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq had arranged to purchase and import uranium from the country, but stated that he “may be in a position to assist”. After President George W. Bush stated…
For a better rundown of this case, check out the “Vault File” which takes a deep dive into this case, with a heavy emphasis on the information found via FOIA. CLICK HERE Background 17 YEARS after being told the documents relating to this event were destroyed — I finally found them! The following is a description of the event, as archived by Wikipedia, to give a bit of background the case: Japan Air Lines flight 1628 was a UFO incident that occurred on November 17, 1986 involving a Japanese Boeing 747-200F cargo aircraft. The aircraft was en route from Paris…
Background HOMERUN was a secret US aerial reconnaissance operation against the USSR conducted between March and May 1956. During that time RB-47E and RB-47H reconnaissance aircraft flew almost daily flights over the North Pole to photograph and gather electronic intelligence over the entire northern section of the Soviet Union. Project Homerun used 16 RB-47Es from the 10th SRS and five RB-47Hs from the 343rd SRS. 156 sorties were performed. On a typical RB-47H reconnaissance mission covering 5,984 mi (9,360 km), the aircraft would fly from Thule, Greenland to the Kara Sea to Murmansk and then return only to find Thule…
Background The NSA leads the U.S. government in cryptology that encompasses both signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA). The SIGINT mission collects, processes and disseminates intelligence information from foreign signals for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, and to support military operations. The IA mission is to prevent foreign adversaries from gaining access to sensitive or classified national security information. Back in 2009, I went after a copy oft the official employee manual. It was released to me in 2011. Document Archive National Security Agency (NSA) Employee Manual (2011 Release) [130 Pages, 19.2MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nsa/nsaemployeemanual-2011pdf.pdf