Mandatory Declassification Review

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

CIA UFO Document Declassified Further Solidifies Threat Potential from Unknown Objects

By John Greenewald, Jr. – The Black Vault – Originally Published January 6, 2020 The year 2019 was undoubtedly exciting…

January 6, 2020

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

Beyond BOURBON-1948: The Fourth Year of Allied Collaborative COMINT Effort Against the Soviet Union, 1995 (Result of 2017 MDR Request)

Background The document, "Beyond BOURBON-1948: The Fourth Year of Allied Collaborative COMINT Effort Against the Soviet Union" dated 1995 was…

March 28, 2018

Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States, April 2006

This National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) analyzes the nature of the threat that terrorist groups across the world willpose to US lives…

December 16, 2015