CIA Reprocesses Detention Program Record Under FOIA More Than a Decade After Public Disclosure

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SOURCE: BlackVault — theblackvault.com (Tier 2)
CATEGORY: ARCHIVE
CREDIBILITY SCORE: 74/100  |  EVIDENCE SCORE: 30/100
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TAGS: foia, archive

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The Central Intelligence Agency has completed a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Black Vault in August 2013, releasing records in April 2025 under case F-2013-02345, nearly twelve years after the request was submitted. (The Black Vault has a large backlog of documents that have yet to be put online, hence the delay in getting this document published). The records consist of the CIA’s June 27, 2013, response to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) regarding the Committee’s Study of the Agency’s former Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation (RDI) Program. A previous version of this same document was previously released publicly in December 2014 following publication of the SSCI’s executive summary on CIA detention and interrogation practices. A comparison of the two releases shows that the substantive content remains largely unchanged, with extensive redactions carried forward to this new release. Within the report, the CIA disputes claims that it systematically misled Congress or the Executive Branch, while acknowledging that some past representations were inaccurate. “We cannot vouch for every individual statement that was made over the years of the program, and we acknowledge that some of those statements were wrong.” Although there are very few new tidbits of information released, the newly released version does make more explicit reference to internal oversight structures, including the Covert Action Review Group (CARG) . While CARG’s

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GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES
Special Access Programs: The Legal Architecture That Hides UAP Programs From Congress, Presidents, and Everyone Else. Three Tiers: Acknowledged (Program Exists, Details Secret) / Unacknowledged USAP (Existence Denied Even to Most of Congress) / Waived-USAP (Only the “Gang of Eight” Must Be Notified — Secretary of Defense Can Exempt From All Reporting). Grusch: The Programs Are Hiding Inside Legitimate SAPs. KONA BLUE: The Proposed DHS UAP Reverse-Engineering SAP That Was Rejected.
AVIATION & PILOT REPORTS
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MATERIALS & PHYSICS
AARO Historical Report Vol 1 (2024): “Former CIA Official Involvement in Movement of Alleged Material Recovered from a UAP Crash — Denied on the Record” — Official Government Document
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES
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