History

On Watch: Profiles from the National Security Agency’s Past 40 Years, 1984

On July 17, 1984, Lieutenant General Lincoln D. Faurer, the Director of the National Security Agency, asked the National Cryptologic…

December 7, 2022

National Archive and Records Administration (NARA) Index of Classified Records, November 1988

The following National Archive and Records Administration (NARA) Index of Classified Records, November 1988, was first released heavily redacted in…

October 13, 2022

Office of Logistics History, 1 July 1952 – 31 December 1956

The following CIA history of the Office of Logistics for 1 July 1952 - 31 December 1956 was first released…

October 13, 2022

Special Agent Personnel Incident Review, Office of Program Evaluations and Audits, January 1983

These records were provided by the family of anthologist and transparency activist Russ Kick, from his papers, facilitated by the generous…

September 24, 2022

FBI Files: Serial Killers

A serial killer is, traditionally, a person who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than…

September 16, 2022

FBI Executives’ Conference – FBI File 66-HQ-2554 -1930s-1990s

Little known and scarcely mentioned outside the FBI, the Executives’ Conference materials span decades, from 1936 to the 1990s, and…

September 4, 2022

FBI Files on Cryptography – FBI File #80-HQ-612

Background Before the modern era, cryptography was concerned solely with message confidentiality (i.e., encryption)—conversion of messages from a comprehensible form…

August 4, 2022

NATO Intelligence-A Contradiction in Terms, 1984

The following document was requested by The Black Vault in August of 2019. A Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request was…

June 17, 2022

CIA Museum Documents, Released 2004

These records were provided by the family of anthologist and transparency activist Russ Kick, from his papers, facilitated by the…

June 10, 2022

History of the Office of Research and Development (1962-1970), Volumes 1-3, December 1972

Here are three volumes of the History of the Office of Research and Development created by the CIA in December…

June 9, 2022