Research Guides: International Affairs: Intelligence

Studies in Intelligence

1992-present - Studies in Intelligence
Articles for the Center for the Study of Intelligence
Earlier articles, browsable by title.
1955-92 Studies in Intelligence
Digitized articles from the National Archives.

Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than 75,000 documents, consisting of more than 465,000 pages, that has literally been built by researchers themselves for nearly two decades.

FOIA Reading Room

Intelligence Community

Intelligence documents are loaded with "cryptonyms" - "AMLASH, JMWAVE, ODENVY, PBPRIME, AMCLATTER-1, etc. In many cases, the persons, organizations, or projects to which these codenames refer is public information. In others, it can be inferred from context. This page provides a handy look-up chart for decoding crypts seen in CIA documents": https://www.maryferrell.org/php/cryptdb.php

Origin Documents

Analytic Culture of the US Intelligence Community: an Ethnographic Study

National Security Agency

Origins of the National Security Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

Establishment of the CIA