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Intelligence Documents

• Press Release on the Public Release of the Commission's "work plan"
• Letters to Congressional Committees on Intelligence
• Full text of the Commission's Work Plan

• Introduction to the public hearing of the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community, Friday, January 19, 1996
• Testimony of Bobby Inman, former Director of Naval Intelligence, Vice Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Director of the National Security Agency, and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, current mem ber of the Board of Directors for Fluor, SAI, Xerox, and other corporations.
• Testimony of Frank Carlucci, former Deputy Secretary and Secretary of Defense, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, now Chairman of the Carlyle Gro up.
• Testimony of James Lilly, former Ambassador to China and to the Republic of Korea, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, National Intelligence Officer for China, and National Security Council staff, and currently resident fellow and director of Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
• Testimony of Joe Nye, formerly Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, and Deputy Under Secretary of State, and currently Dean of the Kenned y School of Government at Harvard.
• Testimony of William Barr, former Attorney General of the United States in the Bush administration, now Senior Vice President and General Counsel of GTE.
• Testimony of Richard Haass, former Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the NSC staff and various Defense and State Department posts, and currently Director of National Security Programs and s enior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he recently directed a study run by a task force on intelligence.
• Testimony of Herman Cohen, former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa and Senior Director for Africa on the National Security Council Staff, now representing the American Foreign Service Association and Senior Advisor for the Global Coalition for Africa, a North-South policy forum.

• Preparing for the 21st Century:
  An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence

  About the Commission and its Report
  Dedication
  Preface
  Executive Summary
  Introduction
  
  Chapter 1. The Need to Maintain an Intelligence Capability
  Chapter 2. The Role of Intelligence
  Chapter 3. The Need For Policy Guidance
  Chapter 4. The Need for a Coordinated Response to Global Crime
  Chapter 5. The Organizational Arrangements for the Intelligence Community
  Chapter 6. The Central Intelligence Agency
  Chapter 7. The Need for an Effective Budget Structure and Process
  Chapter 8. Improving Intelligence Analysis
  Chapter 9. The Need to "Right-Size" and Rebuild the Community
  Chapter 10. Military Intelligence
  Chapter 11. Space Reconnaissance and the Management of Technical Collection
  Chapter 12. International Cooperation
  Chapter 13. The Cost of Intelligence
  Chapter 14. Accountability and Oversight
  
  Epilogue
  Additional Views of Senator John Warner
  Acknowledgments

  Appendices

  Appendix A. The Evolution of the U.S. Intelligence Community-An Historical Overview
  Appendix B. An Overview of the Intelligence Community
  Appendix C. List of Witnesses
  Appendix D. List of Interviews
  Appendix E. Authorizing Legislation
  Appendix F. Statutory Issue Cross Reference Index
  Appendix G. Biographical Information

• The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century: The Intelligence Community Act of 1996 -- Statement by Chairman Larry Combest 4 March 1996
• IC21 -- The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century -- Summary 4 March 1996
• IC21 -- Charts 4 March 1996 [five, excluding text-only viewgraphs]

National Performance Review

• The Intelligence Community - September 1993
• Creating A Government that Works Better and Costs Less - Status Report September 1994

• Title 2 - The Congress
• Title 5 - Government Organization and Employees
• Title 8 - Aliens and Nationality
• Title 10 - Armed Forces
• Title 12 - Banks and Banking
• Title 15 - Commerce and Trade
• Title 16 - Conservation
• Title 18 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
• Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse
• Title 26 - Internal Revenue Code
• Title 28 - Judiciary and Judicial Procedure
• Title 31 - Money and Finance
• Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
• Title 35 - Patents
• Title 37 - Pay and Allowances Of the Uniformed Services
• Title 39 - Postal Service
• Title 40 - Public Buildings, Property and Works
• Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare
• Title 43 - Public Lands
• Title 44 - Public Printing and Documents
• Title 47 - Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs
• Title 50 - War and National Defense

• Title 5. Administrative Personnel
• Title 12. Banks and Banking
• Title 22. Foreign Relations
• Title 26. Internal Revenue
• Title 28. Judicial Administration
• Title 29. Labor
• Title 30. Mineral Resources
• Title 32. National Defense
• Title 36. Parks, Forests, and Public Property
• Title 41. Public Contracts and Property Management

• PL86-36 - National Security Agency Act of 1959
• State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956
• Inspector General Act of 1978
• PL90-351 - Tenure and Senate Confirmation of the FBI Director
• PL96-456 - Classified Information Procedures Act of 1980
• PL98-411 - FBI Undercover Operations
• PL99-83 - International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985
• PL99-440 - Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986
• PL99-591 - FY87 Defense Appropriations Act
• PL99-661 - FY87 Defense Authorization Act
• PL100-202 - FY88 Defense Appropriations Act
• 40 USC 759 nt - Computer Security Act of 1987
• 21 USC 1501 nt - Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988
• 10 USC 113 nt - FY88-89 Defense Authorization Act
• FY88-89 Foreign Relations and Authorization Act
• Act of 21 October 1989
• 10 USC 201 nt - FY92-93 Defense Authorization Act
• PL102-396 - FY93 Defense Appropriations Act
• PL102-484 - FY93 Defense Authorization Act

• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996
• House FY96 Intelligence Authorization Act H.R.1655
• Senate FY96 Intelligence Authorization Act S.922
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1992
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1989
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1988
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1985
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1984
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1983
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1982
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1981
• Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1980
• Intelligence and Intelligence-Related Activities Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1979

• House Rule XLVIII - Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
• S. Res. 94-400 - Senate Select Commitee on Intelligence

• EO 10450 - 23 April 1953 - Security Requirements for Government Employees
• EO 12139 - 23 May 1979 - Exercise of Certain Authority Respecting Electronic Surveillance
• EO 12333 - 4 December 1981 - United States Intelligence Activities
• EO 12334 - 4 December 1981 - President's Intelligence Oversight Board
• EO 12356 - 2 April 1992 - National Security Information
• EO 12537 - 28 October 1985 - President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• EO 12958 - 12 April 1995 - C lassified National Security Information

• NSDD National Security Decision Directives - Reagan Administration
  • NSDD 18 - Protection of NSC and Intelligence Information
  • NSDD 22 - Authorization for CIA Officials to Request Counterintelligence Investigations
  • NSDD 45 - US International Broadcasting
  • NSDD 65 - Establishing and NSC Arms Control Verification Committee
  • NSDD 66 - Protracted Economic Warfare Against the USSR
  • NSDD 82 - US Initiatives in El Salvador
  • NSDD 84 - Investigating Leaks of Classified Information
  • NSDD 97 - National Security Telecommunications Policy
  • NSDD 100 - US Military Activity in Central America
  • NSDD 130 - US International Information Policy
  • NSDD 145 - Telecommunications and Computer Security
  • NSDD xxx - Legal Protection for Clandestine Killing Teams
  • NSDD 159 - Management of US Covert Operations
  • NSDD 170 - Radio Marti
  • NSDD xxx - Covert Action Finding Regarding Iran [draft]
  • NSDD 179 - Task Force on Combating Terrorism
  • NSDD 189 - Policy on Transfer of Scientific, Technical and Engineering Information by Universities
  • NSDD 196 - Expanded Counterintelligence and Countermeasures Programs
  • NSDD 197 - Expansion of Counterintelligence Programs to All Government Agencies; Reporting Contacts with Foreign Nationals
  • NSDD 200 - US Port Security Program
  • NSDD 204 - Transfer of National Intelligence Tasking Authority
  • NSDD 207 - National Program for Combating Terrorism
  • NSDD 221 - Narcotics and National Security
  • NSDD 225 - US Strategy in Central America
  • NSDD xxx - Psychological Warfare Against Libya
  • NSDD 264 - Central America Strategy
  • NSDD 268 - PFIAB Counterintelligence Study - Security of the US Embassy in Moscow
  • NSDD 277 - Low Intensity Warfare
  • NSDD 286 - Administration of US Clandestine Operations
  • NSDD 298 - National Operations Security Program
  
  
• NSD National Security Directives - Bush Administration
  • NSD x - US Aid to Afghan Guerilla Groups
  • NSD 18 - Counterinsurgency and Antidrug Campaign in South America
  • NSD 42 - National Policy for the Security of National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems
  • NSD xx - Covert Operations Against Iraq
  • NSD 47 - Counterintelligence Operations
  • NSD 63 - Procedures for Background Investigations of Federal Employees
  • NSD 67 - Review and Reorganization of Intelligence Capabilities for 1992-2005
  
  
• PDD Presidential Decision Directives - Clinton Administration

Department of Defense Directives on Intelligence

General Accounting Office Reports on Intelligence

The VENONA Material

• Press Release on declassification VENONA documents (July 11,1995)
• Introductory History of VENONA and Guide to Translations: Includes GIFs of Original Venona documents.
• National Cryptologic Museum Unveils New "VENONA" Exhibit

• Original Charter of the National Security Agency, 24 October 1952
• DCID 1/7, Controls on Dissemination of Intelligence (April 12, 1995)
• The Fifth Dimension of Warfare remarks by Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, Air Force chief of staff, to the Armed Forces Communications-Electronics Association, Washington, April 25, 1995. Information is the fifth dimension; who has it and manages it best wins.
• Toward a Better Intelligence Community Relationship Remarks by John Deutch, director of central intelligence, at the National Defense University graduation, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., June 14, 1995.

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