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September 16, 2015

CIA releases nearly 2,500 issues of the President's Daily Brief (PDB) and its predecessor, the President's Intelligence Checklist (PICL), from June 1961 to January 1969.

No. 117 of 120

FDR reading the PDB beside his wife and baby.

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