Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

7. Intelligence Community · Minor

Brief CIA leadership on all activities, covert findings, and access programs

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209 7. Intelligence Community

“The Director and Deputy Director should request briefings on all CIA activities and presence overseas, as well as any CIA-controlled access programs and existing covert action findings, without exception.”

What has happened

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    Briefings to the Director and Deputy Director on CIA activities, presence overseas, controlled-access programs and covert action findings are by construction unpublished, and no allowlisted source records that they were requested or given. Federal Register full-text search for "covert action" since 2025-01-20 returns 0 documents of any type; P.L. 119-60 Division F contains no provision on internal CIA briefings, and its only CIA notification provision (section 6501) concerns notice to Congress of novel and significant expenditures.

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • The only in-window Primary records of CIA leadership reviewing the Agency’s own work are the declassified lessons-learned review of the 2016 election Intelligence Community Assessment (2025-07-02) and the Deputy Director-led internal review of analytic products announced 2026-02-20. Both are analytic-tradecraft reviews, not the briefings on activities, overseas presence, controlled-access programs and covert action findings that this Quote names, so they carry #560 rather than this item.
  • This ask is also covered by two single negative searches: one of the CIA internal-management asks on pp. 208-212, and one of the covert-action asks on pp. 210-211.
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Briefings on all CIA activities, access programs, and covert action findings
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