30+ Years of Freedom of Information Action

About this Project

The mission of the Intelligence Documentation Project is to expand significantly the public’s understanding of one of the most sensitive areas of U.S. national security policy – the Intelligence Community (IC). Through extensive use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the project has placed in the public domain thousands of previously classified records that describe and contextualize many facets of the IC’s history, organization, structure, mission and operations. (See also the Cyber Vault.)

Blog Posts

Behind the House Intelligence Committee’s Ability to Release “The Memo”

Feb 2, 2018

What Did the FBI Learn about Homegrown Violent Extremists from a 2012 Survey?

Jun 27, 2017

DEA Releases Two Heavily-Redacted Pages on Two-Decade Surveillance Program

Nov 22, 2016

The Real Deal on PDBs

Sep 18, 2015

Freeing the President’s Daily Brief

Sep 18, 2015

Intelligence Documentation Project

Featured Posting

Understanding the CIA: How Covert (and Overt) Operations Were Proposed and Approved during the Cold War

Washington, DC, March 4, 2019 – The covert operations of the Central Intelligence Agency are one element of the forward edge of power in U.S. foreign policy. But the CIA is not a...

Mar 4, 2019