U.S. Intelligence

Agencies Involved in Intelligence Gathering

• Central Intelligence Agency
• Defense Intelligence Agency
• Department of Homeland Security
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• National Security Agency
• Senate Committee on Intelligence

Government Publications

• Current Issues in Intelligence
  • Breaches of Security at Federal Agencies and Airports
    WOO Docs Y 4.J 89/1:106/95
  • Compilation of Intelligence Laws and Related Laws and Executive Orders
    WOO Docs Microfiche Y 4.IN 8/18:L 44/
  • Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States
    WOO Docs Microfiche Y 4.IN 8/19:S.HRG.106-580
  • IC21 : The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century
    WOO Docs Microfiche Y 4.IN 8/18:IN 8/8
  • Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin
    WOO Docs D 101.84:
  • The 9/11 Commission Report
    WOO Docs Y 3.2:T 27/2/FINAL
  • Preparing for the 21st Century : An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence
    WOO Docs Y 3.2:C 17/IN 8
  • Recent Counterintelligence Problems at Department of Energy Laboratories
    WOO Docs Y 4.AR 5/2 A:999-2000/21
  • Renewal and Reform : U. S. Intelligence in a Changing World
    WOO Docs Microfiche Y 4.IN 8/19:S.HRG.104-781
  • Reorganizing America's Intelligence Community: A View from the Inside
    WOO Docs Y 4.G 74/9:S.HRG.108-755
  • Report to the President: Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction
    WOO Docs PREX 1.19:IN 8/W 37
  • Science at its Best, Security at its Worst : A Report on Security Problems at the U. S. Dept. of Energy
    WOO Docs PR 42.8:SCI 1
  • Sharing Secrets with Lawmakers: Congress As a User of Intelligence
    WOO Docs PREX 3.18:SE 2
  • Studies in Intelligence
    WOO Docs PREX 3.19:


• The History of Intelligence
  • Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years
    WOO Docs PREX 3.17:AS 7
  • At Cold War's End: US Intelligence on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1989-1991
    WOO Docs PREX 3.2:C 67
  • CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962-1968
    WOO Docs PREX 3.17:V 67
  • Foreign Relations of the US 1945-1950: Emergence of the Intelligence Establishment
    WOO Docs S 1.1:945-950
  • The Founding Fathers of American Intelligence
    WOO Docs PREX 3.2:F 82
  • Getting to Know the President: CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates, 1952-1992
    WOO Docs PREX 3.17:B 76
  • The Office of Strategic Services: America's First Intelligence Agency
    (available online only)
  • On the Front Lines of the Cold War: Documents on the Intelligence War in Berlin, 1946 to 1961
    WOO Docs PREX 3.18:D 65
  • "Our First Line of Defense" : Presidential Reflections on US Intelligence
    WOO Docs PREX 3.17:L 63
  • Tracking the Dragon : National Intelligence Estimates on China During the Era of Mao, 1948-1976
    WOO Docs PREX 3.21:C 44
  • Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response 1939-1957
    WOO Docs PREX 3.17:V 55

Additional Reports and Documents

• CIA Electronic Document Release Center (FOIA)
• The CIA's Family Jewels (from National Security Archive)
• Congressional Research Service Reports (from Penny Hill Press; summaries only)
• Digital National Security Archive
• Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program
  • "Intelligence Issues for Congress," CRS Issue Brief, June 2001 (also in PDF)
  • "Intelligence and Law Enforcement: Countering Transnational Threats to the U.S."
• National Security Archive (at George Washington University)
• Secrecy and Accountability in U.S. Intelligence from Federation of American Scientists
• U. S. Commission on National Security/21st Century