FYI – Declassified documents now on-line

The following is an excerpt from the on-line SCOUT report.
The search adn recovery engines are inefficient.
Putting terms like “FISHBED” in the text search yielded
some interesting documents.

CIA’s Analysis Of The Soviet Union, 1947-1991 [.pdf]
http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/princeton/
CIA Electronic Document Release Center — Princeton Collection
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/Princeton_Collection.html
Titles Page
http://www.foia.ucia.gov/net_princeton.htm
Search Page
http://www.foia.ucia.gov/search2.htm

Late last week the Central Intelligence Agency announced two
important online releases of intelligence documents. The first is a
compilation of declassified documents which collectively offer a
retrospective on the CIA’s analytical role during the Cold War. These
are grouped in five chapters, each of which is prefaced by some brief
comments. The second release is a sizable cross-section of the
“Directorate of Intelligence’s analyses of the Soviet Union’s
political, military, scientific, and economic structures during the
period of the Cold War, 1947-1991.” Unfortunately, these are
accessible only via an unwieldy process involving two browser windows
and a sometimes recalcitrant search engine. Instructions are provided
at the first site listed. In test searches we had the most success
entering either the document number or the title in the keyword
search box. Users may also use a form to search by title, abstract,
date created or released, and document number, but we had much less
success with all of these options. The documents are presented as
digitized page images.