Up next, cia director john brennan discusses the history of the president s daily brief. Following his remarks the panel of former Intelligence Officers and giving brief offers discuss the documents importance. The cia, lyndon b. Johnson president ial library, and the university of texas at austin cohosted this event as part of a symposium entitled the president s daily brief, delivering intelligence to the first customer. Is about two hours and 15 minutes. Good afternoon. Growth, director of the lbj president delivery. On behalf of the cia, the National Record archives and records administration, and university of texas, it is my great privilege to welcome you to the president s daily brief, delivering intelligence to the first customer. 50 years ago president johnson in an address to the American Business leaders said a long axiom in my political thinking has been a mans judgment is no better than this information on any given subject. Since its creation, the president s daily brief excerpt provide our commanders in chief with the intelligence that informs Vital Decisions related to all foreign and National Security policy. In short these classified documents after president s the tools they need to render their best judgment. First known as the president s intelligence checklist, or the pickle when it was introduced in june 1961, the document became known as the president stevie brief. Daily brief in 1964. Represents the dissolution this relation of intelligence material deemed worthy of a president s attention. Providing not just news, but importantly, context and analysis. Ourys Program Includes nations top intelligence officials will shed light on the intelligence apparatus and how it is used to ensure that the first and most important customer, the president of the United States, is armed with the information he needs on matters of state. Dvdses as the cia releases from the kennedy and johnson administrations. From june 1961 through january 1969. Marking the first time the cia has through its Historical Review board declassified pdbs and make them available to the public. As of today, as of about five minutes ago, they will be posted on the cia website. It is now my great privilege to welcome to the stage the head of the National Archives and records minister asian, the archivist of the United States, ferriero. Ble david when we will open our doors in the 1935, the mission was to collect, protect, and encourage the use of the records of United States government. Most importantly to make them available to the American Public could hold his government accountable for its actions and to learn from the past. With the final destination of the most important record in the government, the to prevent3 of records deemed by department and agencies to be important enough for person could permanent preservation, the archive is possible for the records of 275 executive Branch Agencies and departments, the white house, and the spring court. We provide courtesy storage for the rest of congress. Our records start with the oath of allegiance signed by George Washington and his troops at valley forge in 1775 and go up to the tweets that are being created as im speaking in the white house. Its a collection of about 12 billion pieces of paper, 42 million photographs, miles of film and video, and 5 billion electronic records. 13 of the 46 facilities that make up the National Archives and are president ial libraries. When frank and roosevelt created the National Archives in 1934 he also created the president ial library system. The libraries start with herbert hoover. Bushgo to the george w. Library in dallas, texas. Y contain more than 700 780 million pages of material, thousands of Museum Objects and electronic records. We started collecting electronic records during the reagan administration. About 2. 5 million enough messages. 20 million in the Clinton White house, 210 million and the Bush Administration and we recently passed the one billion mark for the obama white house. On his first day in office, president barack obama issued an open government directive which declared that my administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. We will Work Together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. This idea of open government was embedded in the mission of the National Archives. Our work is built on the belief that citizens have the right to see, examine, and learn from those records. Five years ago president obama signed executive order entitled classified National Security information. It was intended to overhaul the way documents are assigned classification codes. Secret, top secret. The executive order creating a National Declassification Center within the National Archives with a mandate to review for declassification some 400 million pages of classified records going back to world war i. To do that by the end of 2013. We successfully met that goal and declassification process emphasizing Risk Management strategies and expanding capture efforts here at we are proud report that the six oldest documents were released. They are classified by the cia. Day of leonhis last panetta time in office. Secret ink. We coordinated multiagency activity across government to answer white house request for declassified records responsive to the Brazilian National true commission. The desire for records related to human rights abuses during 96 24. Vice President Joe Biden provided the first of several cd collections to the brazilian governments last summer. We are including this review in 2015 with a web release that describes the impacts on americans abroad. The motto of the National Declassification Center is releasing all we can, protecting that we must. In that spirit me tell you that the work of the National Declassification Center goes on so we avoid those backlogs that they were originally settled with. Saddled with. The release of the checklist and the president ial daily briefings will had meeting will meaningful context to other documents in how the president has used Intelligence Briefings to do their jobs. We are thrilled the cia is releasing these documents from the kennedy and johnson administrations. We look forward to more president ial daily briefings from the nixon and ford libraries after the cia completes its review. A special shout out from the archivist United States digital river for making this work a priority. Rampert for making the severity. It is now my pleasure danger to welcome the dominant who david just shouted out. The david the manager responsible for the release of these and this conference today. This cia director of information, joe lambert. Mr. Lambert thank you mark and david. On behalf of my colleagues back at langley eligible you to the cias latest declassification release event. At the cia we are proud that this is our 24th major release event in the last seven years. The first occurred in 2008 at Georgetown University and it focused on the tenure of Richard Helms as director of Central Intelligence. Since that time we filled events at the president ial libraries and major universities all of the country. Highlighting the release of significant link historically significant documents such as dallas,ica, or the ut air america helicopter pilots were in touch of the first time with the air force pilots they had rescued. We contributed thousands of documents on air america to the archives at ut. We filled events on the 9295 bosnian war with president clinton is the keynote speaker at his library in little rock. We held an event on the campaign accords with president kenny carter as the keynote jimmy carter as the keynote in atlanta. In washington we held an event on the declaration of polish martial law was focused on the life of a kernel of the polish general staff who was one of the cias most important cold war assets. We held their first germanic event is have college. That was entitled tempest to trail blazer and a focus on women in the cia workforce. Weve held a number of smaller ones, like will be held in d. C. Highly the cias involvement in the publication of the russian leg which version of doctor zhivago. This marks the second time in mark insure work with austin. In 20 can be released documents on the 1960s soviet invasion of czechoslovakia. That was one of the most numeral events for me. Not because will release the for the day after the film the phone call i received. The event had made the media and was picked up by an outlet in california in los angeles. My son called and said that, here the cia is talking about an invasion. Do any to be worried . I said did you read the article . He said no i second to take a minute and go little further south . [laughter] waited about 5920 seconds and heard a big side for live by, dad, 1968 . Really . [laughter] public releases of his story significant doctrine senses happen. They require a tremendous amount of behindthescenes collaboration. Regretfully knowledge the appreciation and support of both lbj and the library here at the university of texas for making this wonderful venue available to showcase this document release. In addition to the cia, there are 13 other intelligence and Government Agencies that were involved in one way or another with a review of these documents. I want to offer a special thanks to the National Security agency for their efforts. I would like to thank the cias director professional back in washington will be diligently reviewing these for the last two years to enable the release today to the American People. In thek is often unsung lesson they have taught me of the past five years is that deciding when a secret Developer Secret can sometimes be a very difficult task. I have the pleasure of introducing our keynote speaker for today. We are pleased that we have the director of the cia, john brennan with us today. He joined the cia in 1980 as an art director since march of 2013. Hes uniquely qualified to give the keynote address. He is now both sides of the pdp process as both a briefer and is a recipient when he was assistant to the president for all my security and counterterrorism. Please join me in welcoming john brennan. [laughter] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] mr. Brennan thank you very much and thank you for your outstanding work that has brought us to this event. Good afternoon, everyone. Having spent some wonderful greatat ut, it is my very pleasure to be back in austin. [applause] mr. Brennan i want to thank mark and his excellent staff for hosting this event. And president johnson said, it is all here, the story of our time with the bark off. You can get much further below the bark than topsecret intelligence reports, so i think president johnson would approve of todays proceedings. I want to thank my good friend, admiral william a craven, chancellor of the university of texas system, for speaking this afternoon. It is highly appropriate for bill to help celebrate the history of the president s daily president s daily brief because for a number of years, he helped fill the book with some of with some of the very best intelligence. Gossr cia director porter for lendingman their insights and expertise to the Panel Discussion coming up next. And finally, i want to thank by my very good friend and , whoague, james copper knows more about this business than i would argue anyone else. President johnson admitted point of keeping most of his speeches to a 400 word limit. And i may be dangerously close to hitting that already, but i plan to hold onto this podium for a while so i can offer a few words on todays release and the challenge of preserving our nations security. On his first full day in office, president obama called on the heads of executive departments and agencies to build an unprecedented level of openness in our government. He made it known that giving the American People a clear picture of the work done on their behalf consistent with common sense and those requirements of National Security would be a touchstone of his administration. In light of this new approach, and pursuant to an executive order, cia Information Management officers worked with their counterparts at the National Security council and the office of the director of National Intelligence to start the review and declassification of documents that were more than 40 years old. Ever, for the first time the Central Intelligence agency is releasing an mass declassified copies and its predecessor complications publications. From the documents kennedy and johnson administrations. Some 2000 additional classified documents from the nixon and ford administrations will be released next year. And the process will continue. Is among the most highly classified and sensitive documents and all our government. It represents the daily dialogue with the president addressing the challenges and seizing the opportunities related to our National Security. And for students of history, the declassified briefs will allow insights into why the president chooses one path over another. The release of these documents confirms that the worlds greatest democracy does not keep secrets merely for secrecy sake. Whenever we can shed light on work of our government without harming National Security let me repeat that caveat without harming National Security we will do so. The story of the pbd begins more than 50 years ago at president kennedys retreat it was june 17, 1961. An eight had just arrived from washington aide had just arrived from washington carrying a document. The document was seven pages long and printed on short square blocks of paper with Spiral Binding along the top. Inside were two maps, a few moats notes, and intelligence briefs. On topics ranging from laos to cuba. After reading the document, the president sent word that he was pleased with the contents. The aide contacted the offices at cia and said, so far, so good. [laughter] this was the very first issue of what would become the pbd. The publication quickly became a mustread for president kennedy and that set in motion a routine for delivering intelligence to the oval office that has been at the heart of the mission ever since. The idea behind the pbd was developed quickly in a matter of days to meet a very specific need. Since taking office, president kennedy had been frustrated with the way intelligence was being delivered to him. Reports were long, dense, and abstracts. And they would come in haphazardly throughout the day, making hard for him and his staff making it hard for him and his staff. The president was making policy decisions without the benefit of the intelligence our government had collected for him. A few months into the term, after he was caught offguard by several development, his brother went into the president s staff. The cia soon got a phone call demanding the agency find a better way to give the president informed. A team of Agency Officers decided to produce a daily digest delivered each morning to the white house that was summarize in a few pages of the intelligence that deserved the president s attention. They called it the pickle. The forerunner of the pbd. The idea was so successful that it has endured under 10 president s, and today, it is such a vital part of how the white house operates that one can hardly imagine the modern presidency without it. Throughout its history, the pdb has helped the president confront the greatest challenges. Issues like terrorism and famine and war. But as you will see in the documents we are releasing today, the pdb history includes more than coverage of crisis and conflict. You will find offbeat items, like russian reaction to a performance by the new York City Ballet and commentary on a decision by the new york yankees to fire yogi berra. [laughter] an awful decision. [laughter] you will encounter a host of lively characters, such as a political leader in latin america described as a high living fifth of scotch a demand. You will also find occasional doses of humor and a fair number of offcolor remarks in an entire issue comprising little more than a phone. Today, the pdb is the most abundantly staffed, most deeply sourced Information Service in the world. It provides the president with a wealth of insight and analysis on virtually every issue on his Foreign Policy agenda. But when the idea was first conceived, the plans were not nearly so ambitio