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Dead Drop: August 19

Dead Drop: August 19

PDB DROP: There was a time when the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) was considered the most secret of all secret documents never to see the light of day.  That changed last September when roughly 2500 PDBs from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations were declassified and publicly released. The openness trend continues next week when PDBs from the Nixon and Ford administrations are made available to the public.

The documents will be released at an event at the Nixon Library in California, which will include remarks from DNI Jim Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, and others. According to the Nixon Library, the documents “offer insight into intelligence that informed presidential decision-making during critical historical events, including: the Vietnam War, President Nixon’s Trip to China, the OPEC embargo, and the Arab-Israeli war.”

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