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Excerpt: SUBJECT; Family Jewel for your personal review summaries of activities conducted either by or under the sponsorship of the Office of Security in the past which in my opinion conflict with the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947. 2. These activities cover the period from March 1959 to date and represent as accurate a record as is available in our files. Those activities which took place prior to the date of my appointment as Director of Security on 1....

Excerpt: Plans and preparations for the invasion of Japan were directed in J.C.S. 1259/4. The attached directive, prepared pursuant to J.C.S. 11, directs the execution of these plans and preparations for the initial operation (OLYMPIC)

Excerpt: Recently declassified photographs from spy satellites are an important addition to the record of the Earth?s land surface held by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). More than 800,000 high-resolution photos taken between 1959 through 1972 were made available by Executive Order of the President. The collection is held at the USGS EROS Data Center, near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and are offered for public sale. For some purposes in earth science studies, these pho...

Excerpt: I. Complaints of Discrimination Filed -- A. Complaints filed -- 40 B. Number of individual filers -- 36 C. Individuals filing two or more complaints.

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Excerpt: I. Complaints of Discrimination Filed -- A. Complaints filed -- 13 B. Number of individual filers -- 12 C. Individuals filing two or more complaints

Excerpt: I. Complaints of Discrimination Filed -- A. Complaints filed -- 14 B. Number of individual filers -- 14 C. Individuals filing two or more complaints

Excerpt: From the Director of Central Intelligence; I am pleased to introduce Global Trends 2015, which takes a look at the world over the next 15 years from the perspective of the national security policymaker. This is not a traditional intelligence assessment, depending on classified sources and methods. Rather, it reflects an Intelligence Community fully engaged with outside experts in a constructive dialogue about the future. I want to encourage this lively exchange....

Excerpt: General secretary Mikhail Gorbachev is off to a strong start. He has consolidated power with unprecedented speed, put in place an ambitious program for economic revitalizations that has already achieved some results, set higher standards of accountability for the bureaucracy and improved the image of the Soviet leadership at home and abroad.

Excerpt: Part 1; 1 May 1950 it was just possible that German airfoil vehicles might be ready in limited quantities (less then one hundred) for operational use by the Soviet in 1950.

Excerpt: Introduction; Though much has been written about the Civil War itself, little has been written about the spy war that went on within. The chronicling of Civil War intelligence activities challenges historians because of the lack of records, the lack of access to records, and the questionable truth of other records. Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederacy?s Secretary of State, burned all the intelligence records he could find as federal troops entered Richmond. Union ...

Excerpt: Introduction As became abundantly clear during a conference sponsored by CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) in Charlottesville, Virginia, on 10 and 11 September 2003, the challenges that face the US Intelligence Community in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the United States two years earlier are perceived by members of that community as being far more complex, demanding, and consequential than any they have heretofore encountered. That con...

Description: Introduction The global contest between the United States and the Soviet Union dominated international relations for some 46 years (1945-1991). The cold war confrontation shaped the foreign policies of the united states and the Soviet union, deeply affecting their societies and their foreign policies

Excerpt: Editor's note: the CIA's history of the 1953 coup in Iran is made up of the following documents: a historian?s note, a summary introduction a lengthy narrative account written by Dr. Donald n. Wilber, and as appendices, five planning documents he attached.

Excerpt: In past confrontations with the West, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has used thousands of foreign and Iraqi civilians as human shields in bids to manipulate domestic and international opinion and deter military action against his regime. This tactic has produced clear costs and only marginal gains for Saddam, yet he repeatedly has enacted variations of it since Iraq?s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. In late 1990, Saddam held more than 800 Western, Japanese, ...

Excerpt: Iraq has continued its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs in defiance of UN resolutions and restrictions. Baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles with ranges in excess of UN restrictions; if left unchecked, it probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade. Baghdad hides large portions of Iraq?s WMD efforts. Revelations after the Gulf war starkly demonstrate the extensive efforts undertaken by Iraq to deny information. Sin...

Excerpt: Introduction; Iraq has endured decades of collapsing hopes and accumulating tragedy. It is numbing to consider the waste of so much human and resource potential. Saddam?s ambitions conflicted with the region and the international community. True to his name, he too often chose confrontation over cooperation. Ultimately these decisions led to total collapse. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) were an integral element in the range of tools Saddam drew upon to advan...