Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Files Archive USB Card

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Files Archive USB Card

 

A curated collection of 178,458 pages of documents made up of 65 collections from BACM Research/PaperlessArchives each containing a considerable volume or significance of CIA files or files related to CIA activities or interest.

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Adolf Eichmann CIA Files
1,449 pages of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Files covering Adolf Eichmann. Documents in these files illustrate how the CIA and its predecessor agencies (the Strategic Services Unit and the Central Intelligence Group), as well as the Army's CIC, went about investigating rumors about Eichmann's whereabouts, mainly from hearsay and unsubstantiated assertions. The CIA did not seriously enter the chase for Eichmann until late 1959, but Israeli agents located him in Argentina first and spirited him out to Israel for trial. The file contains a vituperative diatribe by an unnamed CIA agent or source against former Nuremberg prosecutor Telford Taylor, who he termed a "comsymp" or dupe because he publicly advocated that Eichmann be tried by an international tribunal, rather than an Israeli court.
 
Adolf Hitler OSS - CIA Files
1,860 pages of Office of Strategic Services (OSS) files related to Adolf Hitler. Files are composed of a biographical sketch, two analyses of Adolph Hitler's psychological profile, a collection of abstracts of source materials dealing with Adolf Hitler, medical and physical information about Hitler and a set of assorted Adolf Hitler OSS files. 

Archbishop Oscar Romero Assassination CIA and Department of State Files
1,850 pages of CIA and State Department files related to the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980). Romero was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He became the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. After his assassination, Pope John Paul II gave him the title of Servant of God. 

Area 51 CIA Files, Film & Other Historical Documents
2,154 pages of CIA, Air Force, DIA, Atomic Energy Commission files and twenty minutes of CIA film, related to the Nevada Test and Training Range at Groom Lake often referred to by using the disambiguation "Area 51." The base there conducts research and operations that are Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). 

Bay of Pigs CIA - NSC - State Department Files
2,200 pages of CIA, National Security Council, and Department of State files covering the Bay of Pigs. In 1961 a covert operation codenamed "Operation Zapata" called for 1,500 Cuban exiles to land on the southwestern coast of Cuba, mostly at the Bay of Pigs (Bahia de los Cochinos).

Bay of Pigs CIA Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation
1,582 pages of CIA Bay of Pigs Official History compiled between 1974 and 1984. Three volumes of this five volume report were not available to the public until August 1, 2011. One volume was released in 1998. The fifth volume is still Top Secret and has not been released by the CIA. The still withheld volume contains a rebuttal to the 1961 report, "The Inspector General's Survey of the Cuban Operation."  That IG report was a highly critical internal CIA inquiry into the Bay of Pigs invasion. During the administration of President Dwight Eisenhower, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) developed plans to use Cuban exiles to overthrow the Castro government. The plans called for the involvement of the United States to remain hidden. Less than three months after succeeding Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy on 4 April 1961, approved the Operation Zapata Cuba invasion plan. On April 17, 1961, 1,300 Cuban exiles trained in Guatemala landed on Cuba's southern coast, Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) in Las Villas Province. It was hoped that the invasion would be accompanied by a popular uprising in Cuba. Fidel Castro received warnings of the pending invasion and had ample time to prepare for the action. The operation collapsed by its third day. One-hundred and eighteen members of the invasion force were killed, 114 Cuban exiles and 4 American aircrew members. President Kennedy took public responsibility for the failure. CIA Director Allen Dulles and his staff resigned in September 1961

Berlin - East Germany CIA and OSS Files
552 pages of selected OSS and CIA files covering Berlin and East Germany from 1943 to 1962. Documents cover the destruction of Berlin during World War II, Soviet military actions and plans, intelligence operations, the 1948 March Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, suppression of revolt in East Germany, the Berlin Tunnel, and the Berlin Wall.

Bob Woodward CIA and FBI Files
627 pages of CIA and FBI files related to Bob Woodward.

Bosnian War (1992-1995) Bosnia, Intelligence and Clinton’s Presidency: CIA, State Dept, Defense Dept & White House Files
2,346 pages of CIA, State Department, DOD, National Security Council and White House files concerning the Bosnian War, CIA Intelligence, Clinton Administration’s policy decisions, and the Dayton Peace Accords.

Che Guevara: CIA - State Department - Department of Defense White House Files
1,231 pages of CIA, State Department, Department of Defense and White House files related to Che Guevara. Files show the CIA credited Guevara for bringing communism to Cuba. A report gives the CIA's critique of Guevara ability to run the Cuban economy. Memos account a split between Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Mentions are given to Guevara's exporting of revolution to Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala. Honduras, and Nicaragua. Material includes a CIA book review of the diary of Che Guevara. Memos document disagreement between the Soviet Union and Cuba, files chronicle Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev's objections made to Cuba over Che Guevara's mission to Bolivia.

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident CIA, KGB, Soviet, Ukraine, DoD, Energy Dept, Congress Files
4,620 pages of CIA, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Congressional, GAO, and foreign press monitoring files related to the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident. The files cover the Soviet Union's atomic energy program; The effect of the Chernobyl accident on the Soviet nuclear power program; and the social and political ramifications of the accident in the Soviet Union. A 1981 report covers the less publicized Soviet nuclear "accident" near Kyshtym in 1957-58.

CIA Chief Counterterrorism Center Special Operations’ History of the CIA in Afghanistan, 2001-2002
An article written for the CIA's journal, "Studies in Intelligence," by Henry "Hank" A. Crumpton, as chief of the CIA'S Chief Counterterrorist Center's Special Operations at the time of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, he is considered the mastermind behind the 90-day overthrow of the Taliban. At the time of writing this article Crumpton was CIA Directorate of Operations. Crumpton has also been identified as the “Henry” in the September 11 Commission Report

CIA Establishment 1947 to 1953 - CIA's Secret Internal Histories
The combined 3,329 pages of finished studies. This collection is composed of two completed formerly secret internal historical studies concerning the establishment of the CIA, 1947 to 1953, Arthur B. Darling's "The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950,"(1953) and "General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence October 1950 - February 1953" (1971), by Ludwell L. Montague.

CIA Field Double Agent Manual
A Top-Secret until October 2018 manual published by the CIA in August 1960 titled, Field Double Agent Guide, and marked on every page, “KUBARK INTERNAL USE ONLY.” KUBARK was the CIA code name for the CIA. The manual is based on research by KUDESK (KUDESK was the CIA's code name for the CIA Counterintelligence Department).

CIA Interrogation Guide: Cuba
A March 28, 1962, 199-page CIA guide titled, "Interrogation Guide: Cuba," which remained secret for 51 years. The guide was created after the 1961 failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, the 1962 inception of a full embargo, the CIA hatches Operation Mongoose which includes plans to assassinate and months before the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

CIA Manual of the Soviet Army (1953)
A 177-page, 1953 manual covering the Soviet Army produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The purpose of this manual was to give a survey of the leadership, organization, and combat strength of the Soviet Army. 

CIA Operation CHAOS, CACTUS, RESISTANCE, & MERRIMACK American Dissidents Monitoring Programs Files
5,325 pages of CIA files (3,244 pages) and Congressional investigation reports related to Operation Chaos. Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was the code name of a Central Intelligence Agency domestic intelligence program compiling information on Americans from 1967 to 1974, Established by President Johnson and expanded under President Nixon, the program's original mission was to uncover possible foreign influence on domestic race, anti-war and other protest movements. The operation was launched under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms by chief of counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton, and headed by Richard Ober. 300,000 individuals were indexed in a CIA computer system and separate files were created on approximately 7,200 Americans and over 100 domestic groups during the course of CIA's Operation CHAOS (1967-1973). 

CIA Project ARTICHOKE - Mind Control – “Manchurian Candidate" CIA Files
1,373 pages of CIA files related to Project ARTICHOKE, the CIA's 1950's human behavior control experiment and research program. Some material in this collection was not released until April 2018. Jon Ronson, the author of “The Men Who Stare at Goats" wrote in his non-fiction work about more recent army experiments, described ARTICHOKE as, "Artichoke is the program that is not fun. Recently declassified documents revealed that Artichoke was all about inventing insane, brutal, violent, frequently fatal new ways of interrogating people." 

CIA Report: The Vietnamese Communists Will to Persist (1966)
This 316-page CIA report was not available to the public in its current sanitized form until December 22, 2016. It had to be approved for release by the CIA, Defense intelligence Agency, United States Air Force, Joints Chiefs of Staff, National Security Agency, State Department, U.S. Army, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 

CIA Reporting on East German Prisons
CIA Reporting on East German Prisons from the 1950's. 

CIA Spy Plane: Lockheed A-12 Blackbird Project Oxcart - Project BLACK SHIELD CIA Files, Flight Logs and Manuals
4,179 pages of CIA files. Memos, correspondences, reports, and manuals covering the development of the Lockheed A-12 Blackbird, its testing, and its missions. 

CIA Terrorism Review Reports (1982-2001)
3,922 pages of the periodical CIA report, "Terrorism Review," dating from 1982 to 1991 and 1994 through 2001. The files contain approximately 2,200 pages with discernable information due to redactions made by the CIA. These reports were published by the Director of Central Intelligence's Counterterrorist Center. Compiled by the Deputy Director, Instability and Insurgency Center, Office of Global Issues. The publication provided a world-wide overview of entities engaging in recent terrorist activity. It noted current trends and changing dynamics of pursuits of individuals, groups and nations involved in terroristic actions. 

CIA Torture, Interrogation, "Coercive Techniques" Manuals & Related Documents
2,708 pages of publications and documents related to CIA manuals, guidance and guidance received by the CIA covering  "Coercive Interrogation Techniques," dating from 1963 to 2013. Some material in this collection was not declassified until December 2017.

Cold War Beginnings CIA Files
416 pages of selected CIA files covering the beginning of the Cold War from 1946 to 1950. Files comprised from pages of daily and weekly summaries and interpretations provided to President Truman.

Cold War End CIA Files - Bush Administration CIA 1989-1991
378 pages of selected CIA reports covering the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and the end of the of the cold war between 1989 and 1991. Files contain selected pages from National and Special National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs and SNIEs). NIEs and SNIEs are prepared for the President, the Cabinet, the National Security Council, and senior policymakers and officials. NIEs focus on strategic issues of mid or long-term importance to US policy and national security, and SNIEs 

Cuban Missile Crisis Presidential - CIA - NSA - NSC - State Dept Files - Audio Recordings 
3,884 pages of files and 1 hour and 27 minutes of audio recordings covering the Cuban Missile Crisis.  

Fidel Castro: U.S. Assassination Attempts Against Castro CIA, FBI & Other U.S. Government Files
9,929 pages of material related to U.S. Government efforts and influences to bring about the assassination of Fidel Castro. Much the material in this collection was not declassified until October 2017. Much of the material intersect investigations into the assassination of President Kennedy. Fidel Castro claimed he survived 634 attempts or plots to assassinate him, mainly masterminded by the Central Intelligence Agency and U.S.-based exile organizations. Some of the known attempts involved the use of poison pills, a toxic cigar, exploding mollusks, and a chemically tainted diving suit. Another plan involved giving him powder that would make his beard fall out and so undermine his popularity. There was a plan to use LSD with the hope it would cause him to flail into delusional gyrations during a public appearance. 

Frank Sturgis - Watergate, JFK Assassination, Anti-Castro Activity - FBI and CIA Files
3,579 pages of FBI, CIA, The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Rockefeller Commission (Also known as The United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States), and the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) files covering Frank Sturgis and issues related to him. Some documents in this collection were not declassified until November 2021.

Guatemala 1954 Coup - Operation PBSuccess CIA Files & State Department Transcriptions
2,846 pages of CIA documents and State Department transcriptions covering the Agency's involvement in the 1954 coup in Guatemala to overthrow President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. PBSuccess was the code name for a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzman and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. Guzman was seen as a serious Communist threat after confiscating two-thirds of United Fruit Co.'s 332,000 acres and legalizing the Communist Party.

JFK Assassination: CIA Surveillance of Soviet & Cuban Embassies in Mexico U.S. Government Files
3,027 pages of files related to the CIA's surveillance of the Cuban and Soviet Embassies in Mexico during the early 1960's. The CIA station in Mexico City kept a close eye on both the embassies of Cuba and the Soviet Union, using “multi-line phone taps, three photographic sites, a mobile surveillance team and a mail intercept operation,” according to one document. The CIA in the 1960s had ramped up its Mexico operations to monitor communist activity.

JFK Assassination: Jack Ruby CIA File
3,862 of pages of CIA files related to Jack Ruby, material produced or collected by the Agency. Approximately 2,700 pages of the files are from the CIA. Approximately 1,000 pages are FBI and House Select Committee on Assassinations files containing information related to both the CIA and Ruby.

John F. Kennedy Assassination CIA Reports
1,287 pages of CIA reports, produced mainly during the months after the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, copied from material held at the National Archives and Records. The files date from December 9, 1960, to October 20, 1964. Much of the material covers the time Lee Harvey Oswald spent in the Soviet Union and his visit to Mexico City two and half months before the death of President Kennedy. A CIA produced narrative chronology gives an annotated timeline account of the Oswalds in the Soviet Union from October 1959 to November 1962, based on personal documents, interviews, and official and un-official correspondence. A report titled "Name List with Traces" contains the names of persons in the Soviet Union known to or mentioned by Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina Oswald. Entries include identifying information from name traces.

John Roselli - La Cosa Nostra - Chicago Outfit FBI & CIA Files
3,566 pages of FBI and CIA files covering John Roselli. Most of the files were not declassified until November 2017. John Roselli, AKA "Filippo Sacco," was active in California and Las Vegas, handling affairs for the Chicago La Cosa Nostra family. Roselli was once a bodyguard of Harry Cohen, President of Columbia Pictures, and a former lieutenant of Al Capone. He also produced films for "B" movie outfit Monogram Studios. Beginning in 1947, the FBI investigated Roselli for various racketeering violations

Josef Mengele "Dr. Mengele" CIA Files
574 pages of CIA files covering the Auschwitz selector and human experimenter Dr. Josef Mengele. Some material in this collection was not released by the CIA until 2007. These CIA files on Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele consists of published articles about Mengele and his various hideouts in South America, mistaken sightings of him, information of unknown reliability about his associates in Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, and much information about events in 1984-85, when his tracks finally emerged.

Klaus Barbie CIA Files
1,481 pages of CIA created and/or maintained documents concerning Klaus Barbie the Nazi war criminal, also known as the Butcher of Lyon. The documents in this collection includes CIA files, State Department messages, German language SS personnel files, published materials, declassified documents, interrogations, confidential reports from agents or informants, and CIA analytical reports.

Korean War CIA Files
1,270 pages of CIA files related to the Korean War. The documents date from 1945 to 2007. The bulk of the material dates from 1948 to 1953. The files mostly consist of memorandums, intelligence studies, finished intelligence reports, national intelligence estimates, and special national intelligence estimates.

Korean War: CIA Clandestine Services History - The Secret War in Korea, June 1950 to June 1952
The releasable pages of the report "The Secret War in Korea, June 1950 to June 1952," produced by the CIA's historical review department in 1964. Only 3 copies were made when first produced, of this mostly still secret report.

Korean War: CIA Day-to-Day Reports
5,500 pages, 891 documents, composed of various intelligence products produced by the CIA on a daily basis covering the Korean War. The documents date from June 27, 1950, to December 31, 1953. This collection contains some material that was not declassified until March 2010. The material includes Daily and Weekly situation reports, Daily Digest of Significant Traffic, and Current Intelligence Bulletins.

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Spy Plane CIA Files
2,039 pages of CIA files and 1,009 pages of Defense Department reports. The SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft was the world's fastest jet-propelled aircraft and the most advanced member of the Blackbird family developed by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation’s clandestine “Skunk Works” division.  According to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, which prominently features an SR-71 at its Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the aircraft was designed to fly deep into hostile territory, avoiding interception with its tremendous speed and high altitude.

MKULTRA - CIA's Project MKULTRA FBI Files
FBI files on Sidney Gottlieb, George Hunter White and Dr. Frank Olson, persons related to the CIA's Project MKULTRA. In the 1950s and 60s, the CIA engaged in extensive programs of human experimentation, using drugs, and other psychological means, in search of techniques to control human behavior for counterintelligence and covert action purposes. (Also see Project MKULTRA - CIA mind control program CIA Files & Congressional Investigations) 

Mossad - Shin Beth: Israel Foreign Intelligence and Security Services History CIA File
A 47-page March 1979 report by the CIA's Directorate of Operations Counterintelligence Staff and the Defense intelligence Agency, titled, "Israel Foreign Intelligence and Security Services." The study covers the Mossad (Secret Intelligence Service), Shin-Beth (Counterespionage and Internal Security Service) and military Intelligence. The study reviews their functions, organization, administrative practices, methods of operation, and relations with each other.

Pope John Paul II CIA Files
980 pages from documents obtained from the CIA relating to Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla). The material chiefly covers the impact of a Polish Pope and the Vatican on Poland; the Solidarity movement; and the Soviet Union. Also, among the documents are briefs and a analysis of the allegations of a Bulgarian conspiracy, in the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. By the Agency. Correspondence with members of Congress show their interest in having allegations of Soviet involvement in the assassination attempt on the Pope probed.  The files date from 1978 to 2008. 

President Dwight D. Eisenhower FBI - CIA Files
940 pages including 188 pages of CIA files dating from 1952 to1962, connected with Dwight D. Eisenhower. Files include: CIA staff accounts of briefings of Eisenhower. Memorandums concerning Eisenhower's guidelines for the use of nuclear weapons. Missile warning systems. A report ordered by President Eisenhower of CIA covert activities, which outlines the agency's theories and policies concerning covert activities.

President John F. Kennedy CIA Daily Briefings
5,550 pages of President’s Intelligence Checklists (PICLs) prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for President Kennedy. These documents were written specifically for the president; they summarize the day-to-day intelligence and analysis on current and future national security issues.

President Ronald Reagan Cold War Ending CIA Files
2,890 pages of CIA files covering CIA information provided to Ronald Reagan between 1980 and 1989, related to the Soviet Union and the Cold War. 

Project MKULTRA - CIA mind control program CIA Files & Congressional Investigations
17,241 pages of CIA Files. In the 1950s and 60s, the CIA engaged in extensive programs of human experimentation, using drugs, psychological, and other means, in search of techniques to control human behavior for counterintelligence and covert action purposes. MKULTRA was the principal CIA program involving the research and development of chemical and biological agents.

Seymour Hersh American Investigative Journalist CIA Files
1,453 pages of CIA files commenting on the reporting by or making note of the consequence of Seymour Hersh’s reporting to the Central Intelligence Agency, especially concerns about leaked classified information.

Soviet Afghanistan War (1979-1989) U.S. Backed Afghan-Mujahideen CIA, DOD, FBI, and State Dept Material
14,361 pages of CIA files, Department of Defense studies, Department of State documentary history and Reagan Administration files. A unique aspect of this collection is that it has recounting of Soviet-Afghan War battles from both Soviet officers and Mujahideen resistance fighters.

Soviet Biological Weapons Sverdlovsk 1979 Accident CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of State, Navy & Army Files
1,447 pages of CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of State, Navy, and Army files related to the Sverdlovsk anthrax incident. The Institute of Microbiology and Virology in the Russian city of Sverdlovsk, 850 miles east of Moscow, reportedly aroused the suspicions of U.S. intelligence analysts in the 1970s because of certain characteristics observed by satellite. Photo interpreters identified tall incinerator stacks, large cold storage facilities, animal pens, sentries, and double barbed-wire fences.

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia CIA Situation Reports
196 pages of CIA daily situation reports covering the events of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Reports cover May 9-10, July 1, July 19-August 2 and August 21-September 4, 1968. On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.

Soviet Union - Luna Programme/Lunik First Lunar Spacecraft First to the Moon CIA Files
1,441 pages of documents dealing with the Soviet Luna Programme, which sent the first manmade object, Lunik 1, to the moon. 861 pages of CIA Files dating from 1959 to 1971 and 579 pages of government reports on Luna and the early Soviet space program, dating from 1958 to 1967. A highlight in this collection is the CIA account of the "kidnapping" by the CIA of one of the Soviet program's lunar space craft. Some CIA material in this collection was not declassified until November 2019

Soviet Union Top Secret Military Journal Voyennaya Mysl "Military Thought" CIA Files
15,451 pages of CIA files related to intercepted articles published in the Soviet Union's top secret military journal Voyennaya Mysl. Voyennaya Mysl is translated from Russian to English as "Military Thought." The files date from 1961 to 1982. Some material in this collection was not released by the CIA until October 2012. Much of the Soviet material from the early 1960’s was provided by Oleg Penkovsky. Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, given the codenamed HERO by the CIA, was a colonel with Soviet military intelligence during the late 1950s and early 1960s who spied for the benefit of the United States. He was the highest-level Soviet officer to spy for the United States up to that time.

UFO Sightings: CIA, NSA, & Defense Intelligence Agency Files
4,888 pages of documents created or maintained and released by the CIA, NSA, and Defense Intelligence Agency. Files covering reporting of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). Some material was not released until 2021.

USCIA Soviet Propaganda Alerts & Project Truth Documents CIA Files

880 pages of material related to USCIA’s Soviet Propaganda Alerts & Project Truth. The United States International Communication Agency in response to a Reagan Administration desire to counter Soviet propaganda, in 1981 began a new effort of its own called ''Project Truth."  Charles Z. Wick, the USCIA's director, was tasked with overseeing his agency working with the Central Intelligence Agency and the State and Defense Departments to gather ''evidence'' for the project. Press guidance at the time said that ''Project Truth'' was designed to provide a fast-reply service to posts abroad when rumors or news reports about American activity thought to be untrue begin to circulate.

Vietnam War: CIA Maps
200 pages of CIA files, dating from 1957 to 1977, covering the production and distribution of CIA created maps including general reference, topographical, thematic, navigation charts and cadastral maps and plans, related to the Vietnam War. 

Vietnam War: Key Events CIA Files
A trove 3,000 pages of CIA files dealing with the Vietnam War, dating from March 1961 to September 1972. Material is made up of CIA operational files, finished intelligence reports, memoranda, and background studies.

Vietnam War: POW/MIA Southeast Asia FBI - CIA - State Department Files
7,670 pages of FBI, CIA, and State Department documents dealing with American POWs/MIAs in Southeast Asia. 2,200 pages of CIA operational files, finished intelligence reports, memoranda, background studies, and open-source files dealing with American POWs/MIAs in Southeast Asia from 1962 to 1992, mostly from the late 60's and early 70's. These records concerning Vietnam-era prisoners of war and missing in action were located, reviewed, and released as a result of requests from next of kin and other interested parties concerning specific individuals in this category. 

Vietnam War: Air America - CIA's Covert Airline Newsletter: Air America Log
255 pages, 33 issues of Air America Log, dating from November 1967 to July 1973. Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1962 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. It officially disbanded on June 30, 1976. As early as 1966 it was identified in the press as CIA controlled. 

Vietnam War: Armed Propaganda Teams CIA Handbooks
109 pages of two CIA manuals produced in 1969-1970 for advisors in Armed Propaganda Teams apart of the Chiêu Hồi Program. The Chiêu Hồi (Open Arms) Program involved South Vietnamese personnel encouraging defection by the Viet Cong and their supporters to the side of the Southern Government. 

Vietnam War: CIA History Staff Chronology of the Conflict 1940-1973 (1974)
This 142-page chronology of events in the Vietnam Conflict, "Vietnam: A Draft Chronology, 1940 -1973," published in September 1974," was not declassified and released by the CIA to the public until May 2021. 

Vietnam War: CIA Official Internal Secret History Studies
2,358 pages, 48 different documents of once classified official history of the CIA’s involvement in Vietnam, produced by the History Staff of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA historians and current and former CIA personnel.

Vietnam War: Nuclear Weapon Use Options Defense Dept, White House, CIA Files, and White House Secret Audio
2,156 pages of Department of Defense, White House, National Security Council, CIA files, Nixon and Johnson secret White House audio recordings that address the nuclear question faced during the Vietnam War. Some material in this collection was not declassified until 2016. 

Vietnam War: Tet Offensive CIA - Defense - State Dept - South Vietnamese Army Report
3,921 pages of CIA, Department of Defense, State Department files, South Vietnamese Army history, U.S. Army photos and South Vietnam Army photos covering the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive. Material dates from 1967 to 2003. 

Watergate CIA Files
This collection includes 2,910 pages of material. A wide range of CIA and related files, related to the CIA's possible proximity to Watergate.  

World War II: Abwehr (German Military Intelligence) OSS - CIA Files
2,016 pages of documents created by or maintained by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or reports by other U.S. intelligence agencies derived from information gained by the OSS, covering the Abwehr. Documents date from 1944 to 2014.

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If searching for the name “Angleton” to search for mentions of James Jesus Angleton, Chief of Counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1974, you will get 365 hits in 19 different collections. Including the memos below from the CIA Watergate collection           . 

In a January 3, 1975, meeting at the White House, John O. Marsh, Jr., Counsellor to President Ford, mentions seeing a summary of anti-dissident activities in the Nixon Administration, written by Angleton. President Ford goes on to ask, “Was the CIA involved in Watergate?”

If searching for LSD, you get 2,158 hits in 28 different collections.

One result is found in the collection CIA Project ARTICHOKE Files. A memo that covers whether the use of LSD could ever guarantee amnesia.

If searching for the word assassination you get 7,824 hits in 45 collections. Including this memo in the collection Fidel Castro: U.S. Assassination Attempts Against Castro.  A CIA memo mentioning the first time the Agency seriously pursued have Cuban leader Fidel Castro assassinated.

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