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U.S. Intelligence Policy Documentation Project
Dr. Jeffrey T. Richelson, Director
Michael L. Evans, Research Associate
Advanced KH-11 photograph of Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant, Sudan, released after the U.S. attack on the plant in August 1998

Electronic Briefing Books (Click here for the complete list)
The NRO Declassified
The creation and evolution of America's secretive spy satellite agency

The National Security Agency Declassified: History, Organization and Operations
Updated  Includes documents on the Echelon program and the restrictions NSA places on reporting the identities of U.S. persons

U.S. Satellite Imagery, 1960-1999

Microfiche Sets (Click here for the complete list)
U.S. Espionage and Intelligence: Organization, Operations, and Management, 1947-1996
The U.S. Intelligence Community, 1947-1989
The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991

Books (Click here for the complete list of books by Archive staff)
America's Space Sentinels: DSP Satellites and National Security
Jeffrey T. Richelson
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999)
The U.S. Intelligence Community, Fourth Edition
Jeffrey T. Richelson 
(Boulder: Westview Press, 4th ed., 1999)
A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century
Jeffrey T. Richelson
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
America's Secret Eyes in Space: The U.S. Keyhole Satellite Program
by Jeffrey T. Richelson
(New York: Harper & Row, 1990)

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