The American intelligence community was shaped by nearly half a century of Cold War with the Soviet Union. But the demise of the Soviet adversary and the end of the Cold War have thus far produced only modest changes in the structure and activities of the Intelligence Community. Protected from public review and oversight by a citadel of classification, too much of the Intelligence Community remains committed to activities that were controversial during the Cold War, and that are increasingly irrelevant to the post-Cold War world.
Ground Truth -- Viewer's Guide to Intelligence and Related Facilities
For more than a decade the FAS Space Policy Project has been a leading source of information and commentary on the intelligence community, with particular emphasis on intelligence agency budgets and satellite collection systems. Since 1991, the FAS Project on Government Secrecy has been working to illuminate the extent of government secrecy, challenging the political abuse of national security classification authority and other tools of the intelligence trade throughout the executive branch and identifying remedial measures.
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