Background INSCOM executes mission command of operational intelligence and security forces; conducts, synchronizes, and integrates worldwide multi-discipline and all-source intelligence and security operations; and delivers linguist support and intelligence related advanced skills training, acquisition support, logistics, communications and other specialized capabilities in support of Army, Joint, and Coalition commands and the U.S. Intelligence Community. Below, you will find their annual command history for FY 2006, which was declassified to The Black Vault via a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request. Document Archive INSCOM Annual History for FY 2006 [167 Pages, 43MB]
Author: John Greenewald
Background The following are logs from the Department of Transportation. These logs, called Significant Mail Summaries, log each important correspondence received by the Executive Secretariat. Document Archive Significant Mail Summaries, Department of Transportation [522 Pages, 8MB]
Background From the abstract of the report: “Laser propulsion is the production of high specific impulse rocket thrust using a high-energy laser as a remote power source. Specific impulses in excess of 1000 sec are achievable because propellant temperatures are very high and low molecular weight gases can be used. This report highlights the research status of the fourth year of AFOSR sponsored work for converting the laser energy, and reports the results of ongoing experiments using laser sustained plasmas as the conversion mechanism. Major new findings from our spectroscopic techniques to diagnose the laser-sustained plasmas are also reported. The…
Background In the beginning of 2016, I requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and printout of documents listed within the NSA’s ADMS system, which catalogs NSA records within their holdings. I filed two separate requests, seeking titles and citations for all records that bear the dates before 1900 and the second request was identical but for records dated 1900 through 1920. The NSA responded to both requests in the same response. Below, you will find the archive. Document Archive National Security Agency (NSA) ADMS “Document Management System” Printouts for Documents dated 1930 [6 Pages, 2MB] National Security Agency…
Background Cryptolog was created in 1974 and was, according to the editor, “a new vehicle for the interchange of ideas on technical subjects.” Another editor called it “a mix of technical, expository, philosophical, futuristic, argumentative and historical articles – with a light touch here and there – there’s always an article or two to engage the reader.” Issues of Cryptolog were published initially on a monthly basis, but in the final years of its publication, were released on a quarterly basis. There were no issues published in 1993 and the final issue was released in July of 1997. The Black…