Central Intelligence Agency

CIA “Glomar Response” on QANON Documents

Background On February 10, 2020, The Black Vault filed a FOIA request for all documents that pertain to QAnon. It…

February 24, 2020

Possible Unidentified Flying Object in Ukraine, 1959 (CIA Intelligence Information Report)

Background This document was first released in the mass of CIA related UFO records. Upon the first release of it,…

February 11, 2020

Speculative Paper by N Kardashev and A Sakharov on Charged Mass in Space at Conference on Origins of Life, 1971

Background This document was first released in the mass of CIA related UFO records. Upon the first release of it,…

February 11, 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