U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Air America: Upholding the Airmen's Bond. http://www.foia.cia.gov/airamerica.asp. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Air America: Upholding the Airmen's Bond. http://www.foia.cia.gov/airamerica.asp.
"Overview": "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 rescued pilots and thank you letters as well as commendations from various officials. It includes, for the first time, direct information about Lima Site 85 in Laos and a possible hijacking attempt in the 1964 crash of Flight 908. Other elements include the airline's role in the final evacuations from Da Nang and Saigon in April, 1975."
See also, Jeff Carlton, "CIA Documents Shine Light on Secretive Air America," Associated Press, 15 Apr. 2009, for a report on the 18 April 2009 symposium ("Air America: Upholding the Airmen's Bond.") at the University of Texas at Dallas at which these documents were released.
[CIA/Laos; Vietnam/Gen]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of Intelligence. Analysis: Directorate of Intelligence in the 21st Century (Strategic Plan). Washington, DC: Aug. 1996.
This is primarily glossy boilerplate in a style that probably came over from the Pentagon with DCI Deutch. The inside cover has the latest DI wiring diagram.
[Analysis; CIA][c]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Balkan Battlegrounds: A Military History of the Yugoslav Conflict, 1990-1995. Washington, DC: Office of Public Affairs, 2002.
Cohen, FA 81.6, says that "this massive volume is a wonderful resource for scholars and students alike. To take but one example, its account of Slovenia's successful struggle against the far larger Yugoslav National Army is a remarkable look at how a tiny country combined old techniques of territorial warfare with a distinctly modern sense of media relations. The work is based exclusively on unclassified sources, although the analysts clearly had access to much more.... This work is a superb contribution to contemporary strategic studies."
[OtherCountries/Yugoslavia]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The Berlin Tunnel Operation, 1952-1956. Washington, DC: 1968. [http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/tunnel.pdf]
This is the official version of the Berlin Tunnel Operation (PBJOINTLY), written as part of the Clandestine Services History. It was declassified and released to the public in redacted form in February 2007.
[CIA/50s/Tunnel]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Ed., Benjamin B. Fischer. At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991. Washington, DC: History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1999.
Clark comment: This volume was released for the18-20 November 1999 conference at Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government and Public Service. Also listed as Fischer, Benjamin B., ed. At Cold War's End (1999). Jonkers, AFIO WIN 2-00 (14 Jan. 2000), says that Fischer has written "a masterly Foreword that is worth the price of admission. It is an outstanding summary[,] capturing a set of momentous and convoluted -- almost unexplainable -- events. This is a basic source document -- a contribution to knowledge.... Highly recommended."
For Mapother, IJI&C 14.4, this collection "presents insight as to how the intelligence community kept the White House and upper levels of the national security bureaucracy on notice that strategic changes were coming, and offered reasonable predictions about what directions they would take." Crome, JIH 1.1, comments that Fischer's "preface is an utmost helpful guide through the documents and at the same time a well written and concise account of U.S. policy toward the the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe."
[Analysis/Soviet/Nov99; GenPostwar/CW/End]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict to National and International Order in the 1990s: Geographic Perspectives. Washington, DC: October 1995.
This report presents the proceedings from a 30 September-1 October 1993 CIA-sponsored conference. Participants included academic geographers and anthropologists and U.S. Government officials.
[CIA][c]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of Intelligence.
1. The Chinese Economy in 1990 and 1991: Uncertain Recovery. Washington, DC: July 1991.
2. The Chinese Economy in 1991 and 1992: Pressure to Revisit Reform Mounts. Washington, DC: August 1992.
3. China's Economy in 1992 and 1993: Grappling With the Risks of Rapid Growth. Washington, DC: August 1993.
4. China's Economy in 1993 and 1994: The Search for a Soft Landing. Washington, DC: August 1994.
5. China's Economy in 1994 and 1995: Overheating Pressures Recede, Tough Choices Remain. Washington, DC: December 1995.
[CIA][c]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Ed., Michael Warner. CIA Cold War Records: The CIA Under Harry Truman. Washington, DC: History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1994.
MacPherson, I&NS 10.2: "The collection is comprised of 81 documents numbering over 460 pages, most of which could be termed 'sign-posts' in the creation and history of CIA during the formative Truman years.... This edited collection obviously implies ... support for the Montague version of CIA's paternity, but there is no clear resolution of the Darling-Montague debate.... The editor in fact places more emphasis on the influence of the Pearl Harbor experience combined with the rise of a Soviet threat during the birth of modern American intelligence."
[CIA/40s/Gen][c]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Ed., Scott A. Koch. CIA Cold War Records: Selected Estimates on the Soviet Union, 1950-1959. Washington, DC: History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1993.
MacPherson, I&NS 11.2: There are 27 documents assembled here, culled from a larger collection still to be declassified. The reviewer concludes that "it can be inferred from the trends evident in these documents that BNE [Board of National Estimates] assembled its estimates without pandering to policymakers' preconceptions."
[Analysis]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Ed., Mary S. McAuliffe. CIA Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 1992.
Clark comment: This compilation of documents comes from the declassification process managed by the CIA's Historical Review Group.
According to Surveillant 3.1, the editor/compiler, Dr. Mary S. McAuliffe, "recently completed an internal study of John A. McCone's tenure as DCI [not yet available to the public], and is the author of Crisis on the Left: Cold War Politics and American Liberals, 1947-1954" (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts, 1978).
FILS 11.6 says this collection is "unique and provides ... invaluable information." For Lowenthal, the documents give "a good feel for the role played by intelligence in this crisis and [how] senior policy and intelligence officials interacted."
Additional documents on the 1962 crisis have been published in Laurence Chang and Peter Kornbluh, eds., The Cuban Missile Crisis (1992).
[GenPostwar/60s/MissileCrisis][c]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Public Affairs Staff. CIA Maps and Publications Released to the Public. Washington, DC: 1992-forward.
[CIA]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. CIA Support to the US Military During the Persian Gulf War. Washington, DC: 16 June 1997.
[CIA/90s/90-92; MI/Ops/90s/Storm]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of Intelligence. A Compendium of Analytic Tradecraft Notes: Volume I (Notes 1-10). Washington, DC: Feb. 1997.
Click for Table of Contents and access to text of this item.
[Analysis/T&M; CIA/C&C/DI][c]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Public Affairs Staff. A Consumer's Guide to Intelligence. Washington, DC: 1993. Updated, 2d ed. 1996.
Surveillant 4.2 calls the updated edition "a first-rate introduction to the 13 executive branch agencies and organizations comprising the Intelligence Community."
[WhatIsIntel?]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Mathtech. Office of Research and Development. Covert Rearmament in Germany, 1919-1939: Deception and Misperception. Washington, DC: March 1979.
Constantinides: "Based on overt material, the study provides some valuable insights, lists a number of lessons, and makes a start in exploring an important subject." It does not, however, answer the question as to "whether deception or misperception (or self-deception) was the more important ingredient in Allied policy toward covert German evasions."
[UK/Interwar]
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of Intelligence. Cuba: Handbook of Trade Statistics, 1995. Washington, DC: November 1995.
[CIA][c]
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