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>“HLS Scholars are securing positions throughout the defense and intelligence communities, serving the Central Intelligence Agency’s Open Source Works; U.S. Central Command; the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute; and the National Security Agency, among others.”
After 2011, however, all public mentions of the CIA’s OSW cease to exist online.
The CIA, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by historian Dr. Jeffrey Richelson—in which he requested the directive that established Open Source Works, along with its charter—wrote in a response letter on Nov. 29, 2011, the following:
“The CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive to your request. The fact of the existence or nonexistence of requested records is currently and properly classified.”