Evan Thomas: Difference between revisions

In 1992, DCI [[Robert Gates]] granted Thomas historical access to view classified [[Central Intelligence Agency]] files.<ref name=":0" /> The fundamental authority for this policy is Executive Order 12356 (April 1982), as implemented in HR 10–24(c)4. Under these provisions, CIA may grant individual researchers and former presidential appointees access to classified files, once the recipient of this access signs a secrecy agreement and agrees to allow the agency to review his manuscript to ensure that it contains no classified information.<ref name=":0" /> Former DCI Robert Gates directed that the CIA history staff locate and provide records that would satisfy Thomas's research request.<ref name=":0" /> Thomas's manuscript was subsequently reviewed in accordance with his secrecy agreement and approved on March 2, 1995, by the information review officer of the [[Directorate of Operations (CIA)|Directorate of Operations]], with the concurrence of the [[Office of General Counsel]].<ref name=":0" /> In 1996, Thomas penned an article for the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]'s journal, ''[[Studies in Intelligence]]'', describing his experience having been granted the rare privilege of historical access to CIA's classified files.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Evan|date=1996|title=A Singular Opportunity – Gaining Access to CIA's Records|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol39no5/pdf/v39i5a03p.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426222121/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol39no5/pdf/v39i5a03p.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 26, 2010|journal=[[Studies in Intelligence]]|publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]|volume=39|number=5|pages=19–23|access-date=February 21, 2019}}</ref>

 

 

He taught writing and journalism at [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Princeton University|Princeton]] between 2003 and 2014. For seven years, from 2007 to 2014, he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism in residence at Princeton.