Background This document is housed within the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) and is an archived “Foreign Service Despatch” from the American Embassy in Kathmandu to the Department of State in Washington, D.C. It describes the rules set forth when coming across the YETI in Nepal. The regulations set forth include: 1. Royalty of Rs. 5000/- Indian Currency will have to be paid to His Majesty’s Government of Nepal for a permit to carry out an expedition in search of ‘Yeti’. 2. In case ‘Yeti’ is traced it can be photographed or caught alive but it must not be…
Author: John Greenewald
Background The Soviet Union, its surrogates and other countries hostile to the United States, identify the U.S. Navy as a primary target for espionage. They want the Navy’ s classified information and critical technology. The Naval Investigative Service (NIS) has the primary mission of combating espionage and protecting the Department of the Navy from the efforts of hostile intelligence services. This paper focuses on our primary espionage threat, the Soviet Union, and describes its tactics and targets. The current NIS counterintelligence effort is examined and some of the recent Navy spy cases are reviewed. The paper concludes with recommendations for future…
Background The fifth president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was internationally known for his use of chemical weapons in the 1980s against Iranian and Kurdish civilians during and after the Iran–Iraq War. In the 1980s he pursued an extensive biological weapons program and a nuclear weapons program, though no nuclear bomb was built. President Bush said that the biggest regret of his presidency was “the intelligence failure” in Iraq, while the Senate Intelligence Committee found in 2008 that his administration “misrepresented the intelligence and the threat from Iraq”. A key CIA informant in Iraq admitted that he lied about his allegations,…
Background This handbook is issued in accordance with Executive Order (E.O.) 13526, “Classified National Security Information” to provide guidance for the development of NASA security classification guides. Original Classification Authorities·are encouraged to publish Security Classification Guides (SCG) to facilitate a standardized a·nd efficient classification management program. A SCG provides detailed classification guidance on program specific information for use by derivative classifiers in applying appropriate security classification markings. The SCG is an invaluable tool created and approved personally and in writing by an Original Classification Authority (OCA) and published to facilitate the proper and uniform derivative classification of information. It is…
Background This document was obtained from the Department of Defense in April of 2018. It was a PDF presentation used at the 39th Meeting of the Principals. Held at London, United Kingdom on October 25-29, 2004. Document Archive Non-Atomic Military Research And Development (NAMRAD) – Anti-gravity, October 2004 [21 Pages, 5.5MB]