Background Studies in Intelligence is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal on intelligence that is published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence, a group within the United States Central Intelligence Agency. It contains both ...
Posts by Category: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Collection
Effectiveness of the CIA Counterterrorist Interrogation Techniques, March 2005
Background This is an odd example of how a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) case unfolded. In November of 2018, I filed an MDR request for the CIA to review the Effectively of the CIA Counterterrorist Interrogation Techniques memorandum. ...
Visual Media Presentation for Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Staffers, September 2, 1987
Background An unknown list of films were shown to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staffers. Edward Levine, John Nelson, Britt Snider, Gary Sojka, James Martin, Christopher Mellon, Ms Blythe Thomas and Ms. Natalie Bocock. In June of 2019, ...
Briefing For SSCI Aides on May 1981 Assassination Attempt Against The Pope (John Paul II), 1981
Background IAD/CTG Briefing for SSCI Aides on May Assassination Attempt Against the Pope. The below two page document was requested to have a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) by The Black Vault on December 15, 2018. The CIA reviewed and ...
The “Family Jewels” Collection (CIA)
Background Widely known as the “Family Jewels,” this archive consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities ...
