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DIA Declassified: A Sourcebook
Web Posting Spotlights 50+ Year History of Secretive Defense
Intelligence Agency New Documents Feature Iraqi Defector
"CURVEBALL," Convicted Cuba Spy Ana Belen Montes, Analysis of Iraqi
and Chinese WMD programs, and Brief Experiments with
"Psychoenergetics"
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book #534. / : Edited
by Jeffrey T. Richelson
Washington, D.C., November 20, 2015 - The Defense Intelligence
Agency, established in 1961, is one of the United States
government's largest intelligence organizations - employing 17,000
individuals, including thousands stationed overseas. Its 2013
fiscal year budget request was for $3.15 billion. Yet, the DIA is
also one of the more secretive agencies in the U.S. intelligence
community, regularly denying access to basic information about its
structure, functions and activities. Today the National Security
Archive posts a new sourcebook of over 50 documents, many appearing
for the first time, that help to illuminate the DIA's
five-decades-long history.
Highlights of the posting include an internal memo about the
infamous Iraqi defector known as CURVEBALL and the false
intelligence he provided about Iraq's supposed WMD programs; a
180-page review of the case of DIA analyst Ana Belen Montes,
convicted of supplying secrets to the Cubans several analyses of
Iraqi and Chinese weapons of mass destruction programs; and
descriptions of DIA's interest in "psychoenergetics" activities
such as extrasensory perception, telepathy, and remote viewing.
Today's posting also features dozens of issues of the DIA's
in-house publication, Communique (see sidebar), containing
significant information about the agency that is routinely withheld
from the public under the Freedom of Information Act.
The documents posted today concern:
The creation of DIA (Documents 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
Early CIA-DIA relations (Documents 8, 9, 10).
DIA's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Document 44) and the
Vietnam War (Document 46).
DIA's 1978 intelligence appraisal of the Shah's future (Document
14).
DIA studies on Chinese nuclear weapons programs (Document 13,
Document 17).
DIA studies on locating Iraq's short-range missiles during the
first Gulf War (Document 24), its acquisition of aluminum tubes
(Document 31), and its "reemerging" nuclear weapons program
(Document 33).
DIA director Lowell Jacoby's summary of the CURVEBALL case
(Document 36).
DIA's "psychoenergetics" activities (Document 18, Document 21).
The DoD Inspector General report on the case of Ana Belen Montes,
who served as long-time agent of the Cuban intelligence service
(Document 37).
Garamone, Jim
: DoD Proposes Program to Remodel Defense Intelligence.
American Forces Press Service, March 23, 2005
Gertz, Bill: Breakdown : How America's Intelligence Failures
lead to September 11. Regnery, 2002.
Nagy, Thomas J.: Hemmeligheden
bag sanktionerne : Hvordan USA med vilje ødelagde
Iraks vandforsyning.