CNN: CIA declassifies trove of top-secret documents
Washington (CNN)In 1961, the CIA debuted a new type of confidential intelligence report for President John F. Kennedy, a daily morning briefing surveying the threats facing the country so top secret that it was kept even from his second-in-command.
The CIA says it was directed that "under no circumstances" should it be delivered to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, likely due to political rivalries between the two.
The detail is just one of many surrounding the key intelligence briefing the President receives each morning -- known first as the President's Intelligence Checklist, abbreviated as PICL, and then later as the President's Daily Brief, or PDB -- that were shared in the CIA's declassification Wednesday of an unprecedented number of documents related to the briefing book.
The 19,000 pages of released briefings contain details of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the erection of the Berlin Wall, the Vietnam War and other major events that shook the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies from 1961-1969. Portions of the briefs still remain redacted.
WNU Editor: If you want to read all of these declassified memos, go here .... The Collection of Presidential Briefing Products from 1961 to 1969 (CIA). I have browsed a few of these memos .... nothing surprising but still a fascinating read.
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Unprecedented CIA Release of Presidential Daily Briefs From 1960s -- ABC News
CIA release president's Cold War intel briefs -- Deutsche Welle
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