The following documents were declassified by various agencies, pertaining to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 1998 Terrorist Warning on Men Training at Oklahoma Airports [1 Pages] 9/11 Ten Years After: Command, Control, Communications Remain an Issue [36 Pages, 421 KB] – This research paper reviews current emergency management capability to respond to significant incidents, both natural and manmade. In such incidents, multiple agencies must respond, manage forces, and provide critical support as a cohesive team. These organizations span the gamut of local, tribal, state, and federal levels of government and the private sector. They include the broad range of first responders,…
Author: John Greenewald
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up on November 27, 2002 “to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks”, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The 9/11 Commission Report – Executive Summary – June 2005 The 9/11 Commission Report Aviation Security-Related Findings and Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, March 30, 2005 [21 Pages, 162 KB] – The 9/11 Commission found that al Qaeda operatives exploited known weaknesses in U.S. aviation security to carry out the terrorist attacks of…
To download the .zip file, click on the image of the CD-ROM, or CLICK HERE. As a result of a FOIA request filed to the NRO which yielded no records, the agency sent me this CD-ROM for reference purposes. Although the contents of the CD-ROM is quite large in regards to file size, I felt that it should definitely be available for download to the public. To access, I created a .zip file of the contents which is roughly 489 megabytes, so the download time will be considerable if you are not on high speed. Once downloaded, the contents of the…
In the 1970s, Robert Perry of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) wrote five volumes on the history of satellite reconnaissance. Below are the declassified volumes made available through the FOIA. The remaining volumes are under review for declassification and release. The History of Satellite Reconnaissance, Volume 1 [241 Pages, 9.3mb] The History of Satellite Reconnaissance, Volume 2A [326 Pages, 9.7mb] The History of Satellite Reconnaissance, Volume 2B [182 Pages, 5.59mb] The History of Satellite Reconnaissance, Volume 3A [338 Pages, 5.15mb] The History of Satellite Reconnaissance, Volume 3B [153 Pages, 3.4mb] The History of Satellite Reconnaissance, Volume 4 – NRO History [134 Pages, 5.25mb]…
Introduction The Trieste II (DSV-1), the Navy’s most advanced deep sea submersible at the time, surfaced about 350 miles north of the Hawaiian Islands in the pre-dawn hours of 26 April 1972 after recovering a mysterious item. Publicly called a “data package,” the object was actually part of a U.S. spy satellite, codenamed HEXAGON. Before today’s digital technology, photoreconnaissance satellites used film, which returned to Earth in capsules ejected from the satellite. The capsules, called “buckets,” reentered Earth’s atmosphere and deployed a parachute to slow their descent. During the first HEXAGON mission in 1971, the parachute broke off causing the…