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    The document discusses CIA's Historical Review Program which was established in 1992 under DCI Robert Gates. The program aims to make historically significant CIA documents publicly available unless their release could damage national security. It focuses on declassifying records of historical value with input from the CIA History Staff and DCI Historical Review Panel. Documents are reviewed by CIA components and other government entities before being transferred to the National Archives for public access, except when disclosure would reveal sensitive sources and methods.

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    Historical Collections

    An important part of CIA's ongoing effort to be more open and to provide for more
    public accountability has been a recognition of the importance of declassifying
    historically significant Agency documents. The process of opening up the Agency's
    historical record began in the 1980s when then Director of Central Intelligence
    (DCI) William Casey authorized the declassification and transfer of nine million
    pages of OSS records to the National Archives and established the Historical Review
    Program.

    A more formal Historical Review Program (HRP) was established by DCI Robert Gates
    in 1992. Reaffirming the principle that the US government's records should be open
    to the public, the program called for significant historical information to be made
    available unless such release could cause damage to the national security interests
    of the United States. Subsequent DCIs R. James Woolsey and John Deutch, and current
    Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet have supported a vigorous historical
    declassification program.

    CIA's Historical Review Program, with the exception of several statutorily mandated
    requirements, is a voluntary declassification program that focuses on records of
    historical value. The program's managers rely on the advice and guidance of the
    Agency's History Staff, the DCI's Historical Review Panel, and the general public
    in selecting topics for review. Under guidelines laid out for the program,
    historical records are released except in instances where disclosure would damage
    national security-that is, for example, where it would reveal sensitive foreign
    government information or identify intelligence sources and methods that are
    currently in use and that are subject to denial and/or deception. The Historical
    Review Program coordinates the review of the documents with CIA components and
    other US Government entities before final declassification action is taken and the
    documents are transferred to the National Archives.

    Our Historical Collections are listed below. For more, visit our Collections
    archive.

    Aquiline
    (July 30, 2020)

    Aerial intelligence collection platforms have played a critical role in US national


    security from the earliest beginnings of aviation. CIA's 1960s OXCART Program and
    its use of U-2s are examples of collection innovations that have kept US leaders
    informed about adversaries' capabilities and intentions. Despite their success,
    however, use of these platforms carried significant risks and repercussions,
    including detection and even pilot loss, such as the downing of the U-2 flown by
    Francis Gary Powers in 1960. Ever-evolving research by the CIA led to the
    development concept of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as collection platforms. An
    innovative Agency program in the 1960s codenamed Aquiline was the very first to
    test this concept. Based initially on the study of flight characteristics of birds,
    Aquiline was envisioned as a long-range vehicle that could safely and stealthily
    provide a window into denied areas such as the Soviet Union through photography and
    other capabilities, and would even support in-place agent operations. While it
    never became operational, the concept proved invaluable as a forerunner to today's
    multi-capability UAVs.

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