Some recent Congressional Research Service reports obtained by Secrecy News that are not readily available in the public domain include the following (all pdf). “Sharing Law Enforcement and Intelligence Information:…
The average amount of time required by the government to conduct a background investigation and process a security clearance application has been around one year for a Top Secret clearance…
Soviet intelligence agencies “rarely used the polygraph, but trained some of their officers with a machine stolen in 1965 by a Counterintelligence Corps sergeant, Glen Rohrer, who defected to Czechoslovakia.”…
Though it is still too early to identify concrete results, the pace of Congressional oversight activity on secrecy and intelligence matters has already increased markedly in the new Congress. The…
Military doctrine on maintaining air superiority against enemy aircraft and missiles is presented in a newly updated publication (pdf) from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Counterair operations include both offensive…