Intelligence: Speeches, Reports, and Official Documents

CREST (CIA Records Search Tool) at the National Archives

• User’s Manual for the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) – 2003 Edition, September 30, 2003
• CIA-NARA Memorandum of Understanding, November 5, 1999
• CIA Transfer of Computer Equipment to NARA, September 21, 1999
• Usage of CIA Scanned Images at NARA, January 10, 2001
• NARA Brochure on CREST, Spring 2005
• CREST Executive Overview (2008), August 5, 2008
• CREST User Training (2008), August 5, 2008

2010

• North Korea: Assessing the Impact of Flooding on Agricultural Output, CIA Open Source Works, 15 December 2010
• Russia: Security Concerns About Iran’s Space Program Growing, CIA Open Source Works, 16 November 2010
• Pakistan Leadership Watch: October 2010, November 8, 2010
• Procedures Used in Narcotics Airbridge Denial Program in Peru, 1995-2001 (redacted), CIA Inspector General report, August 25, 2008 (released November 2010)

2009

• The Likelihood of the Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons by Foreign Terrorist Groups for Use Against the United States, United States Intelligence Board, Interagency Intelligence Memorandum, 8 January 1976
• Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities (September 2001 – October 2003), CIA Inspector General Report 2003-7123-IG, 7 May 2004 (redacted), as released August 24, 2009
• History of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Part I, 1941-1947, by Joseph E. Roop, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1969
• A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis, March 2009
• Vietnam Histories, released March 12, 2009

Clandestine Services History

• The Secret War in Korea, June 1950 to June 1952, March 1964 (released July 2007)
• Record of Paramilitary Action Against the Castro Government of Cuba, 17 March 1960 – May 1961, May 1961 (released July 2007)
• The Evolution of Ground Paramilitary Activities at the Staff Level, October 1949-September 1955, November 1968 (released July 2007)
• The Berlin Tunnel Operation, 1952-1956, Clandestine Services History, 24 June 1968 (as released in February 2007)

 

2008

• The Agency and the Hill: CIA’s Relationship with Congress, 1946-2004 by L. Britt Snider, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2008
• Interagency Task Force Report on Unauthorized Disclosure of Classified Information, CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, 25 March 2002
• Leaks: How Unauthorized Media Disclosures of US Classified Intelligence Damage Sources and Methods, Foreign Denial and Deception Committee, 24 April 2002
• Inter-Agency Task Force on Unauthorized Disclosures Security Working Group (charter), February 11, 2002

2007

• Remarks of CIA Director Hayden at the Council on Foreign Relations, September 7, 2007
• Inspector General Report on CIA Accountability With Respect to the 9/11 Attacks, June 2005, declassified executive summary, released August 21, 2007
• Remarks of CIA Director Hayden on Current Declassification Activities, June 21, 2007
• Castro’s Cuba Today (1966), Current Intelligence Weekly Special Report, 30 September 1966 (declassified October 2006)

2006

• The Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty, Intelligence Memorandum, June 1967 (declassified June 2006)
• Covert Action Against the Soviet Union, 1969-1960, excerpts from Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, vol. XII (source)
• Intelligence in the Civil War, March 2006

 

2005

• Curing Analytic Pathologies: Pathways to Improved Intelligence Analysis by Jeffrey R. Cooper, Center for the Study of Intelligence, December 2005
• Analytic Culture in the U.S. Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study, Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2005 (8 MB PDF)
• US Intelligence Community Reform Studies Since 1947, Center for the Study of Intelligence, April 2005

2004

• DCI Porter Goss Addresses CIA Employees, September 24, 2004

 

• President’s Daily Brief, 25 April 1967, declassified 10 December 2004

 

• Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 July Through 31 December 2003, Unclassified DCI Report to Congress, November 2004
• Bin Ladin Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks, excerpt from the President’s Daily Brief, December 4, 1998 (declassified for the report of the 9/11 Commission, July 2004)
• Remarks by Deputy Director for Operations James L. Pavitt at the Foreign Policy Association 21 June 2004
• Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, excerpt from the President’s Daily Brief, 6 August 2001 (declassified and released on 10 April 2004) (White House Fact Sheet) (White House Background Briefing, April 10, 2004)

 

• DDI’s State of Analysis Speech, Jami Miscik, February 11, 2004

 

• DCI Tenet on Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction, speech at Georgetown University, February 5, 2004
• Intelligence for a New Era in American Foreign Policy, Center for the Study of Intelligence Conference Report, January 2004 (1.3 MB PDF)

2003

• The Darker Bioweapons Future, report of the Office of Transnational Issues, November 3, 2003

 

• Statement on the Interim Progress Report on the Activities of the Iraq Survey Group, presented by David Kay, October 2, 2003.

 

• Nations Hospitable to Organized Crime and Terrorism, Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress by arrangement with the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center, October 2003

 

• DCI Statement on the 2002 NIE on Iraq’s WMD Programs, news release, August 11, 2003

 

• Key Judgments: Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, declassified excerpts from an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, released July 18, 2003

 

• Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of South America, Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress by arrangement with the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center, July 2003

 

• Intelligence Assessment – Iraqi Mobile Biological Warfare Agent Production Plants, May 28, 2003
• Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 2002, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, April 2003
• Predicting the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Intelligence Community’s Record by Douglas MacEachin, Center for the Study of Intelligence Monograph, published March 2003

 

• Putting Noncombatants at Risk:� Saddam’s Use of “Human Shields”, February 26, 2003

 

• Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 July Through 31 December 2001, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, January 2003

2002

• Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, October 2002.
• Terrorists: Recruiting and Operating Behind Bars, CIA Counterterrorism Center, August 20, 2002.

 

• The 2001 Annual Report of the United States Intelligence Community, Director of Central Intelligence Report to Congress, February 2002.

2001

• Long-Term Global Demographic Trends: Reshaping the Geopolitical Landscape, July 2001 (2.5 MB PDF file).
• Address by Assistant DCI John C. Gannon to the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Committee, 3 April 2001.
• Strategic Investment Plan for Intelligence Community Analysis, ADCI/AP 2000-01 (3 MB PDF file) [HTML version]
• CIA Factbook on Intelligence, updated 2001.
• Remarks by the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, John E. McLaughlin, to Texas A&M Conference “North Korea: Engagement or Confrontation,” 17 April 2001
• Remarks by DCI Tenet opening the Conference on CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991, Princeton University, March 8, 2001.
• Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 2000, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, February 2001
• A Message from the CIA Inspector General, final observations from outgoing CIA IG Britt Snider, January 19.

2000

• Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts, National Intelligence Council, December 2000.
• CIA Activities in Chile, Report to Congress, September 18, 2000.
• Improper Handling of Classified Information by John M. Deutch, CIA Inspector General Report of Investigation, Unclassified (FOUO), February 18, 2000.

1999

1998

• Volume II: The Contra Story – ALLEGATIONS OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CIA AND THE CONTRAS IN COCAINE TRAFFICKING TO THE UNITED STATES (96-0143-IG) October 8, 1998
• Key Judgments — National Intelligence Estimate 98-03, Vietnamese Intentions, Capabilities and Performance Concerning the POW/MIA Issue DECLASSIFIED AND RELEASED August 27, 1998
• Intelligence Challenges for the Next Generation — Remarks by John C. Gannon Chairman, National Intelligence Council to the World Affairs Council Washington, D.C. June 4, 1998
• Collection Management Responses to the Jeremiah Report, 24 August 1998
• Declassified Documents Associated with the Jeremiah Report, 22 June 1998
• Jeremiah News Conference — 02 June 1998 — The identification of the Indian nuclear test preparations posed a difficult collection problem and a difficult analytical problem. In addition, they took pains to avoid any characteristics that they may have learned were of value to us, and the test preparations they made in 1995/96. I suppose my bottom line is that both the intelligence and the policy communities had an underlying mindset going into these tests that the BJP would behave as we behave.
• Allegations of Connections Between CIA and The Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the United States (96-0143-IG) Volume I: The Califormia Story Office of Inspector General Investigations Staff REPORT OF INVESTIGATION January 29, 1998
• CURRENT AND PROJECTED NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES AND ITS INTERESTS ABROAD 28 January 1997 – Senate Select Committee on Intelligence George Tenet Director of Central Intelligence

1997

Desert Storm related products

• ANNUAL REPORT ON INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES The Director of Central Intelligence 22 August 1997
• The Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventions/ Munitions — July Dec 1996 Director of Central Intelligence June 1997
• March 27 – DDI John Gannon — Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Symposium
• March 20 – DDI John Gannon — Congress as a User of Intelligence
• February 5 – Acting DCI George Tenet — Hearing on Current and Projected National Security Threats
• 1997 Factbook on Intelligence

1996

• December 4 – Remarks by John E. Mclaughlin — Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
• November 20 – DDI John Gannon — An The Outlook for China: A CIA Perspective, Worcester, Massachusetts
• November 1 – CIA Executive Director Statement on Persian Gulf Veterans Illnesses
• October 26 – DDI John Gannon Before the Central Intelligence Retirees Association, Clearwater Beach, Florida
• September 5 – DCI John Deutch to Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
• July 25 – DCI John Deutch to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles, California
• July 10 – DDI John Gannon Speech to the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations
• June 25 – DCI John Deutch Testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs; Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
• May 23 – DCI John Deutch Speech at the Conference on Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Weapons Proliferation and Terrorism.
• May 22 – DCI John Deutch Speech to the ARPATech ’96 18th S&T Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia on the Future of the National Reconnaissance Program.
• May 15 – Speech by CIA Executive Director, Nora Slatkin to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations on Women in CIA.
• May 1 – Response by DCI John Deutch to the New York Times.
• March 27 – Statement for the Record by Dr. Gordon C. Oehler, Director, Nonproliferation Center to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
• March 20 – DCI John M. Deutch Open Testimony before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Affairs.
• March 20 – DDI John Gannon Speech before the World Affairs Council in San Diego, CA.
• February 22 – DCI John M. Deutch brief to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the Worldwide Threat Assessment.

Question and Answer Session

following speech.
• January 31 – David Carey Testimony before the House International Relations Committee.

1995

• Statement by CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence John Gannon on Ethnic Cleansing and Atrocities in Bosnia Joint SSCI SFRC Open Hearing on August 9, 1995
• The Future of US Intelligence — Charting a Course for Change John Deutch Director of Central Intelligence 7/11/95
• DCI John M. Deutch at VENONA Press Conference 7/11/95
• Central Intelligence Agency 21 June 1995 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence John M. Deutch
• DCI John M. Deutch’s Speech at National Defense University 6/14/95
• DDCI confirmation hearing June 14, 1995 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence George J. Tenet
• Tribute to CIA Employees who Died in the Line of Duty Remarks by DCI John M. Deutch – 6/1/95
• DCI John M. Deutch’s Address to CSI CORONA Symposium 5/23/95
• DCI John Deutch’s Remarks at CIA Town Meeting – May 11, 1995
• Remarks by Admiral William O Studeman Acting Director of Central Intelligence at MarquetteUniversity 4/20/95
• OMNIBUS COUNTERTERRORISM ACT OF 1995 6 April 1995 – House Judiciary Committee DCI William O. Studeman
• GUATEMALA 4/4/95 Senate Select Commitee on Intelligence Acting DCI William O. Studeman
• Early Satellites in US IntelligenceRemarks by Admiral William O. Studeman Acting Director of Central Intelligence at the Signing of the Executive Order Declassifying Early Satellite Imagery – 24 February 1995
• PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE by Tayac n
  

  Soviet Space Program

• Assessment of Soviet Space Transportation Technology, April 5, 1991
• Soviet Options for a Manned Mars Landing Mission, intelligence assessment, December 1989
• Soviet Reusable Space Systems Program: Implications for Space Operations in the 1990s, Intelligence Assessment, September 1988
• Soviet Space Missions Planned Through the Year 2000, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Science and Technology Perspectives, April 8, 1987
• USSR Military and Space Systems in Development–Improving Capabilities for the 1990s, August 1986
• Key Conclusions About Present and Future Soviet Space Missions, June 1983
• Soviet Capabilities and Intentions for Permanently Manned Space Stations, Intelligence Assessment, November 1982
• Outlook for Rapid Expansion of Soviet Space Programs Through 1986, Intelligence Assessment, October 1982
• Soviet Dependence on Space Systems, Interagency Intelligence Memorandum, November 1975 (declassified version; 1.7 MB PDF)
• Evaluation of a Soviet Low-Pressure Manned Space Flight Research and Development Facility, Scientific and Technical Intelligence Report, August 1975
• Soviets Take a New Look at Space Spending, Intelligence Memorandum, October 1970
• Aims and Costs of the Soviet Space Station Program, Intelligence Report, January 1970
• Expenditure Implications of Soviet Space Programs, contribution to NIE 11-1-69, April 1969
• Soviet Comsat Programs: Status and Prospects, intelligence memorandum, June 1968
• Expenditure Implications of Soviet Space Programs, 1963-1972, contribution to NIE 11-1-67, February 1968
• The Soviet Space Program, National Intelligence Estimate 11-1-67, 2 March 1967 (declassified version; 1.2 MB PDF)
• US and Soviet Space Programs: Comparative Size, Intelligence Memorandum, March 1966
• Snooping on Space Pictures (on intercepting video from Soviet spacecraft), Studies in Intelligence, Fall 1964
• Comparison of US and Estimated Soviet Expenditures for Space Programs, Military-Economic Intelligence Memorandum, August 1964
• The Soviet Reconnaissance Satellite Program, Intelligence Memorandum, June 18, 1964
• The Soviet Space Program, National Intelligence Estimate 11-1-62, December 1962 (declassified version; 1.7 MB PDF)
• Thanks to AT and JB

Chinese Nuclear Weapon Development

• Chinese atomic program – Meeting with the President Central Intelligence Agency, DCI (McCone) Memorandum for the Record, July 24, 1964.
• U-2 flight over high priority targets in South China Meeting of 303 Committee – Central Intelligence Agency, DCI (McCone) Memorandum for the Record, August 8, 1964.
• THE CHANCES OF AN IMMINENT COMMUNIST CHINESE NUCLEAR EXPLOSION Special National Intelligence Estimate SNIE 13-4-64, August 26, 1964.
• Needs for photographic [intelligence on] Lop Nor Chinese Communist nuclear test site Memorandum of Discussion at Luncheon — Central Intelligence Agency, DCI (McCone) Memorandum for the Record September 15, 1964.
• Takhli-Lop Nor KH-4 photography and U-2 photography Central Intelligence Agency, DCI (McCone) Memorandum for the Record, Discussion with the President, Secretary Rusk, Secretary McNamara and Mr. McGeorge Bundy, October 5, 1964.
• Estimated Imminence of a Chinese Nuclear Test Memorandum From the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency (Chamberlain) to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (Carter), October 15, 1964.
• ChiCom nuclear capability Central Intelligence Agency, DCI (McCone) Memorandum for the Record, Meeting of an Executive Group of the National Security Council, October 16, 1964.
• ChiCom nuclear capability Central Intelligence Agency, DCI (McCone) Memorandum for the Record – Meeting of the National Security Council, October 17, 1964.
• COMMUNIST CHINA’S ADVANCED WEAPONS PROGRAMNational Intelligence Estimate NIE 13-2-65, February 10, 1965.
  

  Other

• International Political Implications of Public Release of Selected Satellite Imagery or Information (Redacted), DCI Task Force on the Declassification of Photoreconnaissance Imagery, 5 January 1979
• Bibliography on “Morality and ethics/intelligence and secrecy in our democracy”, 1977 (released 2009)
• Central Intelligence Bulletins (redacted) from June 7-17, 1971
• Central Intelligence Bulletins (redacted) from June 14-22, 1972
• The Latin American Guerrilla Today, CIA Directorate of Intelligence Weekly Summary Special Report, 22 January 1971
• CIA Chronology, 1940-1950, CIA Historical Review Program
• Guide to the Analysis of Insurgency, CIA pamphlet, no date (1980s?).
• The Problem of Uranium Isotope Separation by Means of Ultracentrifuge in the USSR by Gernot Zippe, 8 October 1957 (redacted version)
• Preparing U.S. Intelligence for the Information Age: Coping with the Information Overload, DCI Scientific and Technical Intelligence Committee, STIC 93-001, January 1993
• Remote Medical Diagnosis: Monitoring the health of Very Important Patients, Studies in Intelligence, Spring 1979
• A Review of the Intelligence Community, March 10, 1971
• Declassified Intelligence Analyses on the Former Soviet Union, produced by CIA�s Directorate of Intelligence, 1950-1993

 

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