Learn from the Past: US Director of National Intelligence orders agencies to keep historical records

"The United States Intelligence Community (IC) has an obligation to learn from its history and its performance and to document its activities," Director of National Intelligence J. Michael McConnell wrote in a newly disclosed Intelligence Community Directive.

Towards that end,"each IC agency/organization shall establish and maintain a professional historical capability... to document, analyze and advance an understanding of the history of the agency or organization and its predecessors."

See"Intelligence Community History Programs," Intelligence Community Directive 180, August 29, 2007.