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available to the public in their raw form. For original NSC works,
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Note: Many of
NSC's FOIA requests are made simultaneously to multiple agencies as part of an
overall research strategy. As was done on the FOIA Requests page,
documents received via these cross-agency requests are cataloged by theme and
not agency.
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CIA FOIA analysts append their processing notes to agency copies
of correspondence exchanged with the requester. Because the CIA
has redacted virtually all of the analysts' notes responsive to our
FOIA request, we have combined what few notes we were able to
procure into one record to demonstrate the type of comments and
notations that the CIA believes must be protected from
disclosure.
Powerpoint presentation used to train OSD FOIA analysts.
This version is publicly available on the OSD FOIA website. The version released to NSC
pursuant to this FOIA request is not being posted because this
publicly available version contains virtually all the same
information.
Powerpoint presentation used to train OSD FOIA analysts.
This version is publicly available on the OSD FOIA website. The version released to NSC
pursuant to this FOIA request is not being posted because this
publicly available version contains virtually all the same
information.
Powerpoint presentation used to train OSD FOIA analysts.
This version complements a similar presentation publicly available on the OSD FOIA website. However, both versions
contain enough non-redundant information to necessitate the
publication of NSC's version.
Powerpoint presentation used to train OSD FOIA analysts.
This version complements the presentations publicly available on
the OSD FOIA website. However, in addition to
serving as an excellent single source for FOIA training materials,
this version also includes a large amount of information not included
in the other presentations.
Powerpoint presentation used to train OSD FOIA/PA analysts.
We also highly recommend the training materials available on the OSD FOIA website, which cover such topics as further
discussion of certain exemptions and even litigation strategies.
This is the classified written response alluded to in the
FBI's unclassified response released to the James
Madison Project in 2009. However, the answer to Question 25,
which was the only information requested, is still
redacted.
There are actually only 48 requests represented here, because the
DIA has lost the original request letters for two requests (one
from the National Security Archive and the other from Michael
Ravnitzky), and the records it provided to NSC were not
useful.
Even though the Joint Reform Team, as it is called, publicly
distributed its first two reports in 2008, no publications have
been made publicly available since then. With luck, these records
will begin to shed some light on the Joint Reform Team's more recent
progress.
Throughout the records posted above, three recurring themes
appeared in the correspondence. For ease of reading, the
relevant correspondence has been reproduced here and sorted by theme
in chronological order, regardless of which records control schedule
the correspondence pertained to. Red boxes indicate the relevant
portions.
Letters discussing the CIA's determination that
all records control schedules and related correspondence must be
classified.
Letters discussing the CIA's practice of not
describing records systems to NARA appraisers.
Letters discussing the CIA's refusal to commit to
regular scheduled transfers of records to NARA.
These files are generously hosted by our sister organization the
James Madison Project.
In addition to these records, 27 records control schedules for CIA
records systems are publicly available on the NARA website. Despite this, the CIA maintains that all of its relevant records control
schedules are properly classified and must be withheld in their
entirety.
Records Control Schedules for
Government-wide Privacy Act Record System OPM/GOVT-5
What is more noteworthy than this one-page excerpt from a
Powerpoint presentation is that the Department of Justice maintains
that these two pages are all that can be released from this 191-page
monograph.
This is the official CIA style manual.
Prior to this release, the last publicly available edition was the Sixth
Edition, published in 2001 (and still for sale at some
retailers).
Information Management Services Search Tools and Indices
Studies in Intelligence has been the CIA in-house journal since 1955 and
reliably features many of the finest intelligence articles in the
field. This is a collection of the Tables of Contents of
practically all of the issues, regularly updated as we obtain more
recent tables.
The CIA maintains a list
of declassified articles on its website, but this list does not
always accurately reflect which articles have been publicly
released. In addition, many of the articles listed in our Tables
of Contents remain classified. By using these Tables of Contents
in concert with the CIA's list, researchers should be able to easily
obtain copies of articles which have already been released, as well as
request declassification of classified articles of interest with
sufficient specificity to satisfy the procedural requirements of Mandatory
Declassification Review in a timely fashion.
Warning: 37.4 mb file. We suggest
right-clicking on it and choosing Download rather than trying to open it
in your browser.
The Manget article "Intelligence and the Rise of Judicial
Intervention" requested by Part III was provided by the author and is
posted on the Other Publications
tab.
This is the manual for the entire DOJ
security and classification program, including all of the classification
and declassification procedures that DOJ components must follow, many of
which are not publicly available elsewhere.
The CPO Policy and Guidance Library is "the sole source for all official FBI policy." This is an index of the documents contained in the library, not including archived documents that are no longer current.
