Note: The following press release is a quote:
http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20061221_release.pdf
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C.
20511
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ODNI News Release No. 25-06
December 21, 2006
Director of National Intelligence Releases Four Decades of U.S. Intelligence on Yugoslavia
Please visit www.dni.gov/nic to view the declassified material.
The Director of National Intelligenceís National Intelligence Council (NIC) and the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars recently organized an international conference to mark the release of the NICís declassified
national estimative material titled, From ìNational Communismî to National Collapse: U.S. Intelligence
Community Estimative Products on Yugoslavia, 1948-1990. Held on Dec. 7, 2006 in Washington, D.C., the
conference reviewed the role and legacy of U.S. intelligence on Yugoslavia during the Cold War.
The material contains 34 recently declassified National Intelligence Estimates or NIEs representing the Intelligence
Community's most authoritative analysis of Yugoslavia. Over a period of nearly four decades, these reports gave U.S.
policymakers keen insights into the factors shaping events in and around Yugoslavia ñ Belgradeís break with the
Soviet Union, through the Tito years, and right up to the eve of the nation's collapse ñ an event foretold by the
documents.
Former Secretary of State and former U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia in the 1970s, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, gave
the keynote luncheon address. NIC Chairman, Dr. Thomas Fingar, and the Wilson Centerís president, Lee Hamilton
served as co-hosts of the luncheon.
The release of these papers reflects a continuing commitment by the Director of National Intelligence to provide the
public, when possible, documents of value to historians and intelligence practitioners. The conference offered leading
historians, intelligence analysts, and policymakers an opportunity to review intelligence judgments on Yugoslavia and
evaluate the quality of analytical tradecraft.
In addition to its scholarly value, the conference contributed to the efforts of the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence to implement intelligence reform legislation and WMD Commission recommendations to engage leading
scholars, and continually examine Intelligence Community products to improve the quality of analysis.
This is the second time the NIC collaborated with the Wilson Center to host a conference centered on recently
declassified NIEs and other intelligence memoranda. A similar conference was organized in October 2004 to launch
a collection of newly declassified intelligence documents on China.
The National Intelligence Council is a center of strategic thinking within the U.S. Government and provides
coordinated analyses for senior policymakers on high interest topics. Although most of its work is for internal
government use, the NIC also produces unclassified reports and collaborates with a wide range of independent
scholars, experts, and organizations around the world.
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Note: The Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and China collections are available from the U.S. Government Printing Office and
on the NIC website: www.dni.gov/nic .
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Article snippet:
"NBC News, which first reported Negroponte's resignation, said his likely successor is retired Adm. Mike McConnell, the director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996.
McConnell is now a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, a government contractor and consulting agency."