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CIA Histories

Some of these histories may already be available. If you request and receive a copy of one of the ones that isn't, let me know and I'll add it. If you know of any histories not listed, let me know and I'll add it. If a version of one of the reports has already been released, consider filing a Mandatory Declassification Review request for a copy with fewer redactions.

Clandestine Services Historical Series

DCI Historical Series

Overview Histories

  • The Central Intelligence Agency - An Instrument of Government, to 1950 (HS-1)
  • Organizational History of the CIA, 1950-1953 (HS-2), May 1957
  • CIA Support Functions Organization and Accomplishments of the DDA-DDS Group, 1953-1956, (HS-3) Volume I, Chapters I and II, July 1960
  • CIA Support Functions Organization and Accomplishments of the DDA-DDS Group, 1953-1956, (HS-3) Volume II, Chapter 3, Part 1, July 1960
  • CIA Support Functions Organization and Accomplishments of the DDA-DDS Group, 1953-1956, (HS-3) Volume III, Chapter 3, Part 2, July 1960
  • CIA Support Functions Organization and Accomplishments of the DDA-DDS Group, 1953-1956, (HS-3) Volume IV
  • Offices of the Directorate for Intelligence, 1953-60 (HS-4)

    Directors of Central Intelligence

  • General Walter Bedell Smith as Director of Central Intelligence October 1950 - February 1953 (DCI-1)
  • Allen Welsh Dulles as Director of Central Intelligence, 26 February 1953-29 November 1961 (DCI-2)
  • John A. McCone, The Sixth Director of Central Intelligence
  • Planning and Construction of the Agency Headquarters Building, January 1946-July 1953, Vol.1 Text and Vol. 2 Appendices (DCI-6)
  • John McCone As Director of Central Intelligence, 1961-1965
  • Richard Helms As Director of Central Intelligence, 1966-1973
  • William E. Colby As Director of Central Intelligence, 1973-1976

    Office of the Director

  • Office of Planning, Programming, and Budgeting: The Comptroller Function
  • Cable Secretariat Volume I. " The Formative Years", 1952-1954
  • Cable Secretariat Volume Volume II. Consolidation" and Development, 1954-1966
  • The President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
  • United States Intelligence Board (MS-2)
  • The History of SIGINT in the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947-70 - Volume I
  • The History of SIGINT in the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947-70 - Volume II
  • The History of SIGINT in the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947-70 - Volume III
  • The History of SIGINT in the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947-70 - Volume IV General Appendices
  • The History of SIGINT in the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947-70 - Special Supplement
  • The Office of the Inspector General, January 1952-December 1971
  • Organizational Genealogy of ODCI 1953-1956

    Miscellaneous Studies

  • Office of Scientific Research and Development, History of Division 19 (MS-1)
  • The United States Intelligence Board, 1958-1965, History Staff draft historical study MISC-2. 6 vols. 1974
  • Office of Reports and Estimates, 1946-51 (5 vo1s.) (MS-3)
  • The First Year of the Office Sherman Kent of National Estimates: The Directorship of William L. Langer (MS-4)
  • The Relationship Between The Director For National Estimates And Deputy Director For Intelligence, MS-5, January 1971
  • The Summit Conference of 1960: An Intelligence Officer's View (MS-6)
  • Air America, 1946-1972, History Staff Miscellaneous Historical Studies No. MISC-9
  • The Development of Strategic Research at CIA, 1947-1967, History Staff unpublished manuscript No. MISC-10
  • Francis Gary Powers-The Unmaking of a Hero, 1960-1965 unpublished manuscript (1974)
  • The National Intelligence Programs Evaluation Staff from Its Establishment, September 9, 1963 - December 31, 1970 unpublished manuscript MISC-11, 1971
  • "Vietnam: A Draft Chronology, 1940-1973" (U), CIA History Staff. September 1974

    Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation

  • Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation Volume I - Air Operations, March 1960-April 1961
  • Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation Volume II - Participation in the Conduct of Foreign Policy
  • Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation Volume III - Evolution of CIA's Anti-Castro Policies, 1951-January 1961
  • Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation Volume IV - The Taylor Committee Investigation of the Bay of Pigs
  • Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation Volume V - CIA's Internal Investigation of the Bay of Pigs (draft)
  • Efforts To Split The Regime March June 1962 Study of The Loci Of Power Concluded

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