mines, calvin college in michigan, and lcc international university in lithuania. he has written three books and several dozen scholarly articles on aspects of german propaganda and maintains if you are a history buff and want to therience going online, german propaganda archive which is both nazi and east german. a fascinating world about that. i will just say, just google or east germanda propaganda that would be one of the first things. propaganda archive bit large collection of translations and images of propaganda from the nazi in the east german periods. now i am happy to introduce our speaker tonight. [applause] mr. bytwerk: shortly after noon on april 24, 1939, herman goering introduced adolf hitler to the german reichstag. kittler was about to give what i hitler was about to give what i think is the most widely anticipated and widely heard speech of the 20th century. that is a bit of a claim. and the back of your minds as i m speaking you may see if you can come
to go thanks and that is the national security agency. we are very fortunate once again to have two people with us who know more about the president s daily brief and that is the director of the cia john brennan are and john clapper. . both the been supportive of intelligence transparency efforts. director clapper has instituted an intelligence transparency council. is like today would not happen without the support of director brendan. today,se in attendance you should have a document like this on your chair with an agenda. the introductions will be very brief because the agenda has all of the bios and it. for those of you watching at home, you can see all of the same booklet on the cia.gov website. i want to thank the nixon foundation for making this wonderful venue available. introduceuld like to the director of the richard nixon presidential library and museum to offer some welcoming remarks. mike? [applause] mike: good afternoon, everybody. inbehalf of the archivist the
i think a lot of people who complain about it they only had shared more information with each other, they do not have any idea of the difficulty of connecting many different departments and agencies many , different authorities and responsibilities and be able to move the information and pull data sets out there so you can move information and inform people at the speed of light. something can happen, we can get intelligence in a different part of the world that would have importance. how do you move that very quickly through the system? you have national, state, local government, the cop on the street. i think americans would be impressed with what the country has done with americans like you that work in different public-sector areas, working around the clock to try to make sure that the bits of data that comes in, we are not being overwhelmed not just data , secretly but also that da
it was the first of 13. at that dedication he articulated his vision, which has guided my entire agency from its early days. ofbring together the records the past and house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of women and then in the future. the nation must believe in the above all,uture, and believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment to create their own future. collecting, protecting, and encouraging the use of records of our country has been our use from the beginning. we are proud to open government focus on transparency has resulted in an unprecedented level of access to previously classified material. the december 2009 executive order which created the national declassification center at the archives, the mandate to review by 2013 for declassification a backlog of 352 million pages dating back to world war i. the six oldest records were world war i formulas for invisible ink, declassified by t
good afternoon, everyone. on behalf of all my colleagues, i want to welcome you to today s event, the president s daily brief, delivering intelligence to presidents nixon and ford. my name is joe lambert. i m the director of information management at eia. events like this take a lot of work and i want to acknowledge the efforts of the cia officers who reviewed and declassified these 28,000 pages over the last year. they are assisted by a number of agencies, but the work of one in particular deserves special thanks, the national security agency. today s event marks the cia s 25th major declassification and 2007.e event since we are very fortunate once again to have two people with us who probably know more about the daily brief than anybody i can think of. that is the director of the cia, torn brennan, and dinnerec of national intelligence, jim clyburn. director clapper has instituted intelligence transparency council. it fits nicely with the goals of that counsel. events li