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1. Preparing for Martial Law: Through the Eyes of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski

   (December 11, 2008) A captivating collection of over 75 documents concerning the planning and implementation martial law in Poland from mid-1980 to late 1981. The collection release coincided with a CIA symposium honoring Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a memb ...

2. An Underwater Ice Station Zebra: Recovering a Secret Spy Satellite Capsule from 16,400 feet Below the Pacific Ocean

   (August 8, 2012) The Trieste II Deep Sea Vehicle I (DSV-1), the U.S. Navy's most advanced deep sea submersible at the time, surfaced about 350 miles north of the Hawaiian Islands in the pre-dawn hours of 26 April 1972 after having salvaged a mysterio ...

3. Reagan Collection

   (November 2, 2011) In the 1980s, the Cold War was going strong and was made worse by events such as the death of three Soviet leaders in a span of three years, the Soviet shootdown of a Korean airliner, and the USSR's support for Communist government ...

4. The Original Wizards of Langley

   (October 3, 2008) This overview and collection of documents and other material related to the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) offer a glimpse of CIA's overall contribution to the analysis of Soviet capabilities in science and technology durin ...

5. Air America: Upholding the Airmen's Bond

   (April 18, 2009) A fascinating assembly of documents revealing the role that Air America, the Agency's proprietary airline, played in the search and rescue of pilots and personnel during the Vietnam War. The collection has personal accounts by the re ...

6. A Life in Intelligence- The Richard Helms Collection

   (April 28, 2008) This collection of material by and about Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and Ambassador to Iran comprises the largest single release of Helms-related information to date. The documents, historical works and essays ...

7. Creating Global Intelligence

   (May 14, 2009) Discover the back story of the US intelligence community by exploring "Creating Global Intelligence: The Creation of the US Intelligence Community and Lessons for the 21st Century", a collection of declassified documents from the ...

8. Wartime Statutes- Instruments of Soviet Control

   (April 5, 2011) The collection, consisting of 22 documents, provides insight into how the Soviet Union codified its control over the armed forces of its Eastern European allies. The release of this collection coincided with a panel discussion at the Wilso ...

9. Soviet and Warsaw Pact Military Journals

   (January 22, 2010) A collection of sensitive Soviet and Warsaw Pact military journals from 1961 to 1984 providing a view into Warsaw Pact military strategy. Additional documents to the collection, dating from 1961 to 1986, published in sensitive Soviet an ...

10. The CAESAR, POLO, and ESAU Papers

    (June 2007) This collection of declassified analytic monographs and reference aids, designated within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directorate of Intelligence (DI) as the CAESAR, ESAU, and POLO series, highlights the CIA's efforts from the 1 ...

11. Baptism By Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War Overview

    (June 16, 2010) This collection includes more than 1,300 documents consisting of national estimates, intelligence memo, daily updates, and summaries of foreign media concerning developments on the Korean Peninsula during 1947- 1954. The release of this co ...

12. Declassified Intelligence Analyses on the Former Soviet Union Produced by CIA's Directorate of Intelligence

    Review the index  (1.9Mb, may take a few moments to load). See also portions released as part of the  Princeton Collection. How to access  the documents As part of its voluntary declassification program, in 1996 CIA began to review for possible declassifi ...

13. The Berlin Wall Collection: A City Torn Apart: Building of the Berlin Wall

    (October 27, 2011) Erected literally overnight, the building of the Berlin Wall was the culmination of over a decade of escalating confrontations and contentious blockades contrived to encourage the west to abandon Berlin to the Communist Bloc. The wall w ...

14. UFOs: Fact or Fiction?

    This collection catalogues CIA information on this subject from the 1940s through the early 1990s. Most of the documents concern CIA cables reporting unsubstantiated UFO sightings in the foreign press and intra-Agency memos about how the Agency handled pu ...

15. National Intelligence Council (NIC) Collection

    (January 2007) This collection contains hundreds of intelligence reports, including many National Intelligence Estimates and other publications produced by the National Intelligence Council or its predecessor organizations, the Office of National Estimate ...

16. Strategic Warning and the Role of Intelligence: Lessons Learned From The 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    (April 16, 2010) The Czechoslovak crisis began in January 1968. The Czech communist leadership embarked on a program of dramatic liberalization of the political, economic, and social orders. These reforms triggered increasing Soviet concerns culminating i ...

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