Intellipedia is an online system for collaborative data sharing used by the United States Intelligence Community (IC). It was established as a pilot project in late 2005 and formally announced in April 2006 and consists of three wikis running on JWICS, SIPRNet, and Intelink-U. The levels of classification allowed for information on the three wikis are Top Secret, Secret, and Sensitive But Unclassified/FOUO information, respectively. They are used by individuals with appropriate clearances from the 16 agencies of the IC and other national-security related organizations, including Combatant Commands and other federal departments. The wikis are not open to the public.
Intellipedia is a project of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Intelligence Community Enterprise Services (ICES) office headquartered in Fort Meade, Maryland. It includes information on the regions, people, and issues of interest to the communities using its host networks. Intellipedia uses MediaWiki, the same software used by the Wikipedia free-content encyclopedia project. ODNI officials say that the project will change the culture of the U.S. intelligence community, widely blamed for failing to “connect the dots” before the September 11 attacks.
Intellipedia Manual, 2007 Edition, Released in Full [17 Pages, 1.73MB] – After appealing this 2009 request for a FULL denial, the document was sent to the Department of State, and finally released in full in October of 2013.
Abdullah Gul [ 7 Pages, 1.1MB | a/o 08/2018 ] – Discovered while doing a search for “Deep State.” This was the only responsive record.
Edward Snowden [ 5 Pages, 3.19MB | 09/2016 ] – I also requested entries for The Intercept and Glenn Greenwald, both of which do not exist (allegedly).
Empty Quiver [ 7 Pages, 1.4MB | a/o 09/2016 ] – This keyword entry forwards to the “Nuclear Incident” page.
False Memory [ 41 Pages, 1.9MB | 09/2017 ] – This request asked for Intellipedia entries on “Aliens” and “Extraterrestrials.” The results came up with a few responsive entries mentioning these keywords. This .pdf contains the entire release.
Green [ 41 Pages, 1.9MB | 09/2017 ] – This request asked for Intellipedia entries on “Aliens” and “Extraterrestrials.” The results came up with a few responsive entries mentioning these keywords. This .pdf contains the entire release.
Green (Color) [ 41 Pages, 1.9MB | 09/2017 ] – This request asked for Intellipedia entries on “Aliens” and “Extraterrestrials.” The results came up with a few responsive entries mentioning these keywords. This .pdf contains the entire release.
Mother Teresa [ 23 Pages, 0.8MB | a/o 12/2018 ] – Although no specific Mother Teresa entry, these other pages all mention her. I compiled them all here.
Nicolaus Copernicus [ 41 Pages, 1.9MB | 09/2017 ] – This request asked for Intellipedia entries on “Aliens” and “Extraterrestrials.” The results came up with a few responsive entries mentioning these keywords. This .pdf contains the entire release.
OCS Programs (Category) [ 3 Pages, 1.0MB | a/o 2/2017 ] – I appealed this response since the entry for Project Looking Glass stated it was in this category, and yet, they send me a page that says it is empty.
Operation Garden Plot [ 1 Page, 0.6MB | a/o 04/2014 ] – For more documents, check out the Operation Garden Plot Archive on The Black Vault.
Protect America Act [ 28 Pages, 4.7MB | a/o 09/2016 ] – This FOIA request was also with the FISA entry. I kept them together.
Psychic Powers / New Age Category Pages [ 4 Pages, 0.5MB ] After finding the Remove Viewing entry above, I requested the two category pages to see what other entries I could find. I was told “no records” existed. I appealed based on the above document. I was denied under the “appeal.” Strangely, 6 weeks later, I received this letter and responsive documents. There WERE records relating to my request, and even though I appealed the original decision, I was denied a SECOND time. What happened? I also requested all FOIA Processing Notes [16 Pages, 0.8MB] for this request. Interesting to see the behind the scenes notes, as it appears they had caught their mistake when receiving my appeals, and yet they STILL denied them. Luckily, the honest NSA employee who was curiously looking at “unrelated” cases, made the NSA send me a follow up which is above.
Robert Hanssen [ 23 Pages, 0.8MB | a/o 12/2018 ] – This came up during a search for “Mother Teresa”.
Whimsy (Category) Release #1 [ 21 Pages, 4.0MB | a/o 03/2017 ] – I appealed this release. Based on the documents, and looking closely, the NSA FOIA officer did not take the time to get all the pages listing the entries in this category. I was able to catch this oversight, and appealed. The appeal was granted in March of 2017, but it was not until June of 2018 when the remaining pages were released. Those are found below.