What Was New in 1996
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Intelligence Analysis on the Long-Range Missile Threat to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on December 4, 1996 - added to Congressional hearings section [11 December 1996]
November 1996
U.S. ACTIONS REGARDING IRANIAN AND OTHER ARMS TRANSFERS TO THE BOSNIAN ARMY 1994-1995 REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE UNITED STATES SENATE together with ADDITIONAL VIEWS NOVEMBER 1996
[23 November 1996]
AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF COMPLAINT, ARREST WARRANT, SEARCH WARRANTS and News release, Harold James Nicholson arrested on charges of spying for the Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki Rossii [SVRR - Russian Federation foreign intelligence service] [19 November 1996]
Completed Phase One construction of GulfLINK Intelligence archive. This initial build provides a mirror archive of over 1000 of the more interesting documents from the GulfLINK site. The two subsequent builds will provide a value-added serial record index of these materials, as well as a thematic reader's guide that should finally enable folks to actually use this stuff. [19 November 1996]
FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS Volume I:
Investigations and Prosecutions Lawrence E. Walsh Independent Counsel
August 4, 1993 Washington, D.C. [added 14 November, under the theory of better late than never]
The BCCI Affair A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate by
Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown December 1992 102d Congress 2d Session Senate
Print 102-140 [11 November 1996]
Updated Economic Intelligence with some additional material on the BCCI Affair [11 November 1996]
Updated the online library of Intelligence Doctrine,, with new materials including FM 90-2 Battlefield Deception [Tactical Cover and Deception], FM 90-24 C3CM Multi-Service Procedures for Command, Control, and Communications Countermeasures, the FM 34-1, Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Operations, the FM 34-8 COMBAT COMMANDER'S HANDBOOK ON INTELLIGENCE, the FM 34-36 SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES INTELLIGENCE AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE OPERATIONS , and FM 24-33. Communications Techniques: Electronic Counter-Countermeasures
October 1996
Additional updates to the Threat Assessment section. [25 October 1996]
Added a number of prepared testimony texts to the Congressional Hearings section -- nothing terribly earth-shaking, but every litter bit helps. [18 October 1996]
A comprehensive online library of Intelligence Doctrine, hosted at our site, provides ready access to doctrinal and related publications. This implementation is part of our DoctrineLINK initiative. [12 October 1996]
Added various updates to the Threat Assessment section. [12 October 1996]
Started construction of GulfLINK Intelligence archive, that will provide both a mirror archive of the more interesting contents of the GulfLINK site, as well as a thematic reader's guide to these resources. [8 October 1996]
September 1996
Added comprehensive situation report on Missile Proliferation to the Threat Assessment section (13 September 1996).
Added a bit of Java to liven up the IMINT Gallery. (01 September 1996)
August 1996
Added another dozen and a half KH-4 images to to the IMINT Gallery. (23 August 1996)
Added some additional KH-4, Bosnia and other imagery materials to the IMINT Gallery. (2 August 1996)
July 1996
Started the Threat Assessment section, with a primary focuse on weapons of mass destruction (30 July 1996)
Extremely massive update of Congressional Record materials on intelligence and related issues (30 July 1996)
Start of a major rehack of the whole dang site, which was startin to get all nasty and hard to maintain. We are trying for a somewhat cleaner look and feel, with stuff organized a bit better. It will take about a month or so to get all the internal links realigned, so please be patient if things are a bit confusing in the short run. (21 July 1996)
Major update to the 1996 and 1995 Congressional Report materials on intelligence and related issues (18 July 1996)
Pretty massive update of Congressional Record materials on intelligence and related issues (18 July 1996)
A modest update to Information Warfare on WWW resource guide. (14 July 1996)
Started construction of the 1994 Congressional Hearings section (14 July 1996)
Started serious construction of Congressional Record materials on intelligence and related issues (11 July 1996)
Added the Collection Synergy chapter from the HPSCI IC-21 Staff Study. (11 July 1996)
Updated the Congressional Report materials on intelligence and related issues (11 July 1996)
Added some more Security in CyberSpace material to the Congressional Hearings section (11 July 1996)
DCI's Small Satellite Report to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (dated 27 June, added 8 July 1996)
We have updated the collection General Accounting Office Reports on Intelligence and brought the texts of these documents inhouse, to avoid problems with offsite servers (7 July 1996)
Added a number of items to the Congress and Intelligence section, including the recent Hearing testimony on cyberwar and information security. (4 July 1996)
June 1996
Updated this What's New page after a long hiatus [sorry about that folks, but as you can see things have been pretty hectic around here lately] (29 June 1996)
Added some additional imagery interpretation materials to the IMINT Gallery. (23 June 1996)
Added a number of new facilities to the Ground Truth -- Viewer's Guide to Intelligence and Related Facilities.(17 June 1996)
Started adding chapters from the HPSCI IC-21 Staff Study. (15 June 1996)
Substantially completed the initial construction phase of the IMINT Gallery. (11 June 1996)
Added a number of new facilities to the Ground Truth -- Viewer's Guide to Intelligence and Related Facilities.(11 June 1996)
Overhead the Intelligence Community - added some more maps as well as a few more overhead images. (10 June 1996)
May 1996
Added extensive imagery of Bosnia to the IMINT Gallery. (22 May 1996)
Inaugurated the Public Eye initiative on public interest utilization of intelligence derived technologies. (22 May 1996)
Mystery Aircraft - our analysis of reports of unacknowledged secret airplanes. (14 May 1996)
Added the entire text in HTML of Army Regulation AR 530-1 Operations Security (OPSEC). (13 May 1996)
Started construction of the IMINT Gallery -- an online archive of imagery intelligence from a variety of sources covering a wide range of points of interest. This resource will take about a month to finish construction, so you may want to check back every couple of weeks to see how things are progressing. If you are aware of any sources that we should include, please contact us. We are particularly interested in show-casing exemplary images from manufacturers of camera, processing and exploitation systems. (12 May 1996)
A major rehack of the Intelligence Industry Contractor Guide, which now consists of more user-friendly byte-size pieces that you might actually be able to download, rather than a single monster.file that would choke your modem. (10 May 1996)
Overhead the Intelligence Community - added a number of maps and floor space analyses, and broke some excessively massive pages into slightly more user friendly components. (4 May 1996)
Added some intelligence related Public Laws. (4 May 1996)
Added intelligence related Executive Orders. (3 May 1996)
Intelligence and Related Facilities Location Map -- updated to add about 50% more points of interest relative to the previous release [many hundred, too numerous to enumerate] as well as some pointers on how to actually access this content, which requires the DeLorme StreetAtlas 3.0 CDROM. (2 May 1996)
Information Warfare on WWW updated with about twice as many references as the previous release. (1 May 1996)
Department of Defense Directives -- a guide to intelligence and security related Directives and Instructions. About half of them are available on-line at our site. Some of this stuff is pretty dry reading, but close inspection will reveal a few gems, such as: DODD 5200.37 Centralized Management of Department of Defense Human Intelligence [18 December 1992] -- which is the charter for the Defense HUMINT Service that was in the news last year. (1 May 1996)
April 1996
Director of Central Intelligence Directives [DCIDs] -- a guide to both the [very] few that are available online, and the others, both known and unknown, including the text of the brand new DCID 1/7. (30 April 1996)
Presidential Decision Directives Clinton Administration fact sheets and news announcements. (29 April 1996)
Fy96 Intelligence Authorization - Senate debate [finally!!] (29 April 1996)
NSA Rainbow Series and related documents -- a guide to both those that are available online and the others. (28 April 1996)
Ground Truth -- Viewer's Guide to Intelligence and Related Facilities -- a picture gallery of agency and contractor sites and buildings.(28 April 1996)
Intelligence Agency and Contractor map -- Based on the DeLorme Street Atlas 3.0 this small file can be downloaded and overlaid on the DeLorme CDROM map of the United States [if you don't have the DeLorme CDROM, you are outta luck, but the thing is only $79, and if you have ever had any interest in maps, you gotta get this thing right now, 'cause it is quite amazing!!]. (28 April 1996)
CIA Annual Report for FY1994 Just released!! (16 April 1996).
March 1996
Secrecy and Government Bulletin -- March 1996 edition INTELLIGENCE REFORM RACES TO A HALT Steve Aftergood reviews the recently released intelligence reform reports (19 March 1996).
Updated the URL-Minder Registration form so that update notices are specific to this page, rather than the general FAS What's New page. If you want to receive updates on Intelligence Reform, you need to re-register (14 March 1996).
IC21 -- The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century -- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 6 March 1996 proposals for intelligence community reform (13 March 1996).
Updated the NRO Model Homepage, adding budget information and a number of NRO Facility maps (12 March 1996).
Added intelligence community budget information, based on material released by the Aspin/Brown Commission (11 March 1996)
Completed the first round of Overhead the Intelligence Community, based on readily available imagery. There are a number of identified facilities that are not included, but it will take a while longer to lay hands on
imagery of them (7 March 1996).
Added another dozen and a half or so company profiles to the Intelligence Industry Contractor Guide, bringing the total to 156 companies. Washington area locations of many of these companies can be seen in the Overhead the Intelligence Community section as well [though we still need to add identifying templates] (7 March 1996).
Overhead the Intelligence Community -- medium and high resolution [aerial] imagery of major intelligence agency and contractor facilities (4 March 1996).
Intelligence Agency Budget and Personnel -- a handy chart listing the budgets and personnel levels of US intelligence agencies (1 March 1996).
February 1996
Making Intelligence Smarter: The Future of U.S. Intelligence -- February Report of an
Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations (21 February 1996)
Added another dozen and a half or so company profiles to the Intelligence Industry Contractor Guide, bringing the total to about 140 [given the pace of merger and acquisition activity in this market, it is hard to be more precise in this count]. Also added many dozens of additional corporate operating locations, and corporate sponsors of the Joint Military Intelligence College. To facilitate finding these updates, they are all now keyed with a 
symbol.
We still need some user feedback on how to bust up this excessively bandwidth intensive [~230k] file into something a bit more user friendly. (18 February 1996)
Complete transcript of the 19 January 1996 public hearing of the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community. (13 February 1996 -- sorry for the delay!!)
Updated the Usenet Resources Related to Intelligence guide, adding more groups and providing a more user-friendly format.(4 February 1996)
Small updates to General Resources -- Major Sites, History and Culture -- notably SOURCES eJournal
and Robert Parry's The Consortium, and added Michael Moore Investigative Research to Economic Intelligence
and Commercial Intelligence on the Web. (4 February 1996)
January 1996
Added over 50 company profiles to the Intelligence Industry Contractor Guide, bringing the total to about 125 [given the pace of merger and acquisition activity in this market, it is hard to be more precise in this count]. Also added a more extensive sources and methods discussion, and a plea for user feedback on how to bust up this excessively bandwidth intensive [~190k] file into something a bit more user friendly. (28 January 1996)
Updated Intelligence Industry Contractor Guide and added a brief listing of NSA contract award announcements (23 January 1996).
Intelligence Resources on the Web General Resources -- Major Sites, History and Culture (21 January 1996)
Intelligence Resources on the Web Human Intelligence and Covert Operations -- CIA (21 January 1996)
Intelligence Resources on the Web Signals Intelligence and Communications Security -- NSA (21 January 1996)
Intelligence Resources on the Web Imagery Intelligence and Mapping -- NRO, CIO, DMA & NIMA (21 January 1996)
Intelligence Resources on the Web Economic Intelligence and Open Source Collection (21 January 1996)
Intelligence Resources on the Web Information Warfare (21 January 1996)
Intelligence Resources on the Web Other Resources, by Agency (21 January 1996)
ODCI, CIA, CIO, and DIA Model Homepages (11 January 1996)
November 1995
Intelligence Industry Contractor Guide (14 November 1995)
November issue of the Secrecy and
Government Bulletin (2 November 1995)
October 1995
Guide to intelligence-related DOD Directives (18 October 1995)
Guide to intelligence-related provisions of the US Code (18 October 1995)
Guide to General Accounting Office Intelligence-related reports (15 October 1995)
Guide to intelligence-related provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations (15 October 1995)
A Framework for Reform of the U.S. Intelligence
Community: (13 October 1995)
October issue of Secrecy and Government
Bulletin
August 1995
Added this "What's New" page (9 August 1995)
Revamped the entire Project on Intelligence Reform webspace (9 August 1995)
Initial release of some of our own analytical
products (8 August 1995)
Revamped guide to intelligence community homepages (6 August 1995)
Expanded [too slightly] our jump-page (1 August 1995)
The August issue
of the Secrecy and Government Bulletin (25 July 1995)
July 1995
VENONA Documents
recently released from the NSA (13 July 1995)
Model National Security Agency Homepage (12 July 1995)
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