16-09-2015, 02:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-09-2015, 07:14 PM by Drew Phipps.)
This just in:
Confidential JFK and LBJ Presidential Breifing material have been declassified and are being released today. I'll edit with a link when it becomes available.
Link to story: https://news.utexas.edu/2015/09/15/cias-...istrations
Link to records: http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/PDBs
(Alas, the records have been "Sanitized" for release. Hopefully something interesting gets through)
Livestream to symposium with speakers starts 1:00 PM CST: http://www.lbjlibrary.org/events/cia-sept16
Agenda:
1 p.m. - Welcome
Mark K. Updegrove, Director, LBJ Presidential Library
Joe Lambert, Director, Information Management Services, CIA1:10-1:45 p.m. - Keynote Address
John O. Brennan, Director, CIA
1:45-3 p.m. - Delivering Intelligence to the President
Panel Chair: David Robarge, Chief Historian, CIA
Panelists:
Porter J. Goss, Former Director, CIA
Admiral Bobby Inman, Former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, CIA
John Helgerson, Former Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA
William Inboden, Executive Director, William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy, and Statecraft, The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Clement, Deputy Assistant Director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia and former PDB Briefer, CIA
3-3:15 p.m. - Q&A
3:15-3:30 p.m. - Break
3:30-4 p.m. - Featured Speaker: The Importance of Intelligence
William H. McRaven, Chancellor, The University of Texas System
4-4:30 p.m. - Closing Remarks
James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
4:30-4:45 p.m. - Wrap Up
Joe Lambert, Director, Information Management Services, CIA
David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
4:45 p.m. - Adjourn
Confidential JFK and LBJ Presidential Breifing material have been declassified and are being released today. I'll edit with a link when it becomes available.
Link to story: https://news.utexas.edu/2015/09/15/cias-...istrations
Link to records: http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/PDBs
(Alas, the records have been "Sanitized" for release. Hopefully something interesting gets through)
Livestream to symposium with speakers starts 1:00 PM CST: http://www.lbjlibrary.org/events/cia-sept16
Agenda:
1 p.m. - Welcome
Mark K. Updegrove, Director, LBJ Presidential Library
Joe Lambert, Director, Information Management Services, CIA1:10-1:45 p.m. - Keynote Address
John O. Brennan, Director, CIA
1:45-3 p.m. - Delivering Intelligence to the President
Panel Chair: David Robarge, Chief Historian, CIA
Panelists:
Porter J. Goss, Former Director, CIA
Admiral Bobby Inman, Former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, CIA
John Helgerson, Former Deputy Director for Intelligence, CIA
William Inboden, Executive Director, William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy, and Statecraft, The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Clement, Deputy Assistant Director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia and former PDB Briefer, CIA
3-3:15 p.m. - Q&A
3:15-3:30 p.m. - Break
3:30-4 p.m. - Featured Speaker: The Importance of Intelligence
William H. McRaven, Chancellor, The University of Texas System
4-4:30 p.m. - Closing Remarks
James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence
4:30-4:45 p.m. - Wrap Up
Joe Lambert, Director, Information Management Services, CIA
David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
4:45 p.m. - Adjourn
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."