{"id":475,"date":"2015-02-25T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=475"},"modified":"2015-03-04T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:01:46","slug":"iran-with-capability-to-strike-us-by-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/iran-with-capability-to-strike-us-by-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran with Capability to Strike US by 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Intelligence Report: Iran with Capability to Strike US by 2014<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

(Originally written June 2010)<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

By John Greenewald, Jr.<\/p>\n

A recently discovered US Intelligence Report from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has a striking revelation \u2013 Iran may have the capability to attack the United States by 2014 with an ICBM missile.\u00a0 This report is released amidst allegations that Iran\u2019s nuclear program is progressing to the point of nuclear weapon capabilities.<\/p>\n

The document, labeled a Military Intelligence Digest with a SECRET security marking, states that, \u201cAn ICBM with a Non-Rotating Earth (NRE) range of 10,000 kilometers would provide the Iranians with missile coverage of Alaska but would not allow them to target CONUS [Continental United States], owing to rotational effects of the Earth.\u201d\u00a0 The report goes on to state that, \u201cIran might have the capability to develop and produce an ICBM that can strike the United States in the next 10 to 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The release of this report was due to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by The Black Vault internet archive (http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com<\/a>), a website devoted to obtaining and archiving declassified government documents released via the FOIA, filed back in 1997.<\/p>\n

It took the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) nearly 13 years for them to process the request, which only yielded three pages of material; 85% of which is completely blacked out.\u00a0 Although open to interpretation, the DIA stated that some of the material was \u201cNot Responsive to the Request,\u201d even though the original request asked for information pertaining to an Iranian missile hitting the United States, and the blacked out paragraphs under the heading, \u201cThe Future of Iran\u2019s Long-Range Ballistic Missile Program (U).\u201d<\/p>\n

Subsequent requests have been filed for the rest of the report, and another\u00a0 11 documents have been forwarded to other agencies for possible declassification.<\/p>\n

As of 13 years and four months after the initial filing of the FOIA request by The Black Vault, those documents have not been received.<\/p>\n

The documents released by the DIA can be downloaded at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/IranMissileUS.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/IranMissileUS.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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