CIA: The record before us is the Annual Report of the Director of

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The record before us is the Annual Report of the Director of Central Intelligence to the Congress for the year nineteen seventy‑nine, submitted on January twenty‑fifth, nineteen eighty. It is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency document that offers a contemporaneous assessment of the United States intelligence community’s performance and challenges at the close of the 1970s. This report was released to the public through a Freedom of Information Act request filed under case number two‑zero‑zero‑eight, with the declassification authority exercised by the Central Intelligence Agency’s…