Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Collection

National Intelligence Daily — February 10, 1980

Background This National Intelligence Daily was issued on February 10, 1980.  Originally, it was released in 2004 with heavy redactions.…

September 18, 2020

Completed Histories of DDI Components, 26 July 1973

Background The following document was first released in 2003. It has resided in the CIA's CREST database as document number:…

May 19, 2020

National Intelligence Daily — April 24, 1980

Background This National Intelligence Daily was issued on April 24, 1980. It appears in the CIA’s CREST database, as CREST…

May 18, 2020

The 1983 War Scare in US-Soviet Relations, Undated (circa 1996)

Background This article was written for the CIA Studies in Intelligence. The author was Benjamin B. Fischer. In August of…

May 17, 2020

CIA Agency Regulations About Their Office of the Inspector General (OIG)

Background In August of 2015, I filed a FOIA request for records pertaining to the policy or memorandum of agreement…

May 15, 2020

1975 Memo Documenting the Destruction of CIA Drug Research Programs like MKULTRA

Background It is a fact that most documents relating to MKULTRA and other drug research programs were destroyed. In this…

May 7, 2020

Possible Resumption of Negotiations for US Reactor, Iran, February 1976

Background This document was first requested, but fully denied, in ISCAP appeal number 2009-054-doc3. It was a CIA document, and…

March 25, 2020

Crypto AG

Background Crypto AG was a Swiss company specializing in communications and information security. It was secretly jointly owned by the…

March 13, 2020

Studies in Intelligence, Volume 1, Number 2, January 1956

Background Studies in Intelligence is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal on intelligence that is published by the Center for the…

December 12, 2019

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…

December 12, 2019