Reference: 2014 Declassified CIA Documents

Studies in Intelligence: A Digest of Declassified CIA Documents For the benefit of researchers, Lawfare has reviewed and digested documents released in September of 2014 by the Central Intelligence Agency. The bulk of the materials hail from the CIA’s in-house intelligence journal, Studies in Intelligence. We have grouped the documents in rough thematic fashion and, within …

Berto Jongman: 500 Year Old Map Shatters “Official” History

EXTRACT The fact that this ancient map could have been made with some sort of arial technology is quite a thought, isn’t it? Even if this isn’t an option, who had the technology to undertake such an accurate geographical survey in Antarctica a couple million years ago? How would they have known to detail the …

Michael Maxsenti: Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter

An important interview by Bill Moyers. Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter One of Ganz’s themes is the crucial role narrative plays in social movements. “I think it’s particularly important because doing the kind of work that movements do requires risk-taking, uncertainty, going up against the odds. And that takes a lot of hope,” …

Michael Flynn: Obama Delusional, CIA Unprofessional [PBI: and USDI a Waste]

Former Defense Intel Chief Blasts Obama Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, blasted the Obama administration’s approach to the War on Terror in a hard-hitting speech to a meeting of intelligence professionals. “The dangers to the U.S. do not arise from the arrogance of American power, but from unpreparedness or …