Archives Prior to 2008

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National Reconnaissance Office: Reports

exclusive: Newly released histories of America’s earliest spy satellites

Justice Dept: 2006 Forfeiture and Money-Laundering Manuals

exclusive: Updated versions of the manuals that Justice ordered libraries to destroy in 2004

NSA Bibliographies

exclusive: Previously unreleased bibliographies and indexes of National Security Agency publications, including Cryptologic Quarterly and NSA Technical Journal

National Personnel Records Center: Request Processing Procedural Documents & Guide

How the US military-records center processes requests

List of CIA Inspector General Investigations

exclusive: Allegations concerning lying to Congress, trafficking drugs, dumping hazardous material into the Potomac, concealing terrorism-related information, unauthorized interrogation techniques, child porn, fraud, etc.

FBI File: Edward Said

exclusive: File on professor, critic, and pro-Palestinian activist who pioneered post-colonial theory

FBI File: Bobby Frank Cherry

exclusive: File on Klansman convicted of 1963 church bombing

Investigation of the National Archives & Records Administration

exclusive: By the Department of Health & Human Services Inspector General, 1993

updated: Titles of Master’s Theses From the Joint Military Intelligence College, 1973-2002

exclusive: Previously unreleased list of three decades’ worth of theses from the military’s spook school. Any of these reports can be requested under FOIA

updated: “Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy,” aka The Kerry Report Transcripts

exclusive: Part 3 of the rare landmark Senate hearings on the narco-corruption of officials and intelligence agencies in the US, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Pfizer’s Chemical/Biological Weapons Report

exclusive: The pharmaceutical giant reports on its efforts to create chemical and biological incapacitating agents, including those that cause amnesia, for the US Army in 1964

Two Unreleased Reports by Carl Sagan

exclusive: A pair of technical reports about Venus, written for the Jet Propulsion Lab by the soon-to-be-famous scientist

FBI File: Bacteriological Warfare in the United States

exclusive: The Feds prepare for – and deal with threats of – biological attack in the US, 1941-1950

National Archives’ Investigation into Missing Papers of Chief Justice John Roberts

exclusive: Previously unreleased report on criminal investigation into disappeared “Affirmative Action Correspondence” file from Roberts’ tenure as associate counsel to President Reagan

Expunged Report on Domestic Wiretaps

exclusive: Administrative Office of the US Courts removes report about wiretaps. The Memory Hole restores it

Army Report on ESP in Animals

exclusive: In the 1950s, Duke University’s Parapsychology Laboratory investigated using dogs to psychically detect landmines for the Army, and they looked for ESP in cats and pigeons

Chemical Weapons Report: Toxicity by Race and Gender

exclusive: Recently declassified Defense report

Deleted Website for Justice Dept’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training

exclusive: Justice Department removes site about overseas legal operations. The Memory Hole restores it

Deleted Webpages from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

exclusive: Federal agency removes health info for gay-lesbian-bi-trans populations. The Memory Hole restores it

Reports From the Future of Iraq Project

exclusive: Over 1,200 pages of previously unavailable reports from State Dept planning for post-Saddam Iraq. Warnings and recommendations by experts and Iraqi exiles ignored by administration

CIA Films at the National Archives

exclusive: A huge list of several thousand films that the CIA has sent to the Archives. “Ear Wiretapping — Bugging Devices.” “How Free Should the Press Be?” “Interrogation Techniques.” “Investigation of US Bacteriological Warfare.” “Unidentified Flying Objects.”

updated: Abu Ghraib Images

More photos of Iraqis being abused by US personnel aired by Australia’s public broadcasting station

Minutes of the Legislative Reference Service, 1947-1953

exclusive: Documents from the tightlipped Congressional Research Service’s predecessor shows them wrestling with the same problems over 50 years ago

updated: 1956 Report on Classified Information (Coolidge Committee)

exclusive: An early governmental report on overclassification and leaks. “Being a democracy, the government cannot cloak its operations in secrecy.” Now includes an extensive introduction

repost: The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile

This was openly admitted by the men who created and implemented America’s public schooling system. Read quotations from their scarce books and reports, which have been out of print for decades

Federal Criminal Proceedings Against Mining Companies, 1979-2005

exclusive: Newly released document gives details on 242 federal criminal prosecutions

OSHA’s Lost Workday Injury and Illness Database

exclusive: Injury/illness rates for tens of thousands of companies identified by name. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration fought in court for two years to keep this material secret

Reports on BZ (Chemwar Weapon)

exclusive: Scan of previously unreleased report: “BZ Psychochemical War Agents”

Reports on Psychochemical Weapons

exclusive: Scan of previously unreleased report: “Clinical and Military Medical Aspects of Psychopoisons”

FBI Research Reports on the Nation of Islam

exclusive: Two previously unseen monographs covering the Black Muslims’ history and activities up to the mid-1960s. Based on often obscure public-source documents, internal NOI literature, and confidential material, such as informants and FBI investigative files

Films About the Corona Spy-Satellite Program

exclusive: Three previously unreleased films from the historic conference on Corona, plus the CIA’s rarely seen hour-long documentary about the program

All Available NY Fire Dept Dispatch Tapes From 9/11

exclusive: The Fire Department of New York’s radio dispatches from the morning and early afternoon of 9/11. For over three years, they fought in court to keep these recordings secret but were finally forced to release them in August 2005. For the first time anywhere, we’ve made the contents of all 21 audio CDs available online

Philadelphia Grand Jury Report on Pedophile Priests

And the archbishops who protect them. Entire 418-page report available, plus crucial excerpts guaranteed to turn your stomach. Example: “A girl, 11 years old, was raped by her priest and became pregnant. The Father took her in for an abortion.”

FBI Investigative Report on Porn Films in 1972-3

exclusive: In the early 1970s, the Bureau was sending agents into sticky theaters to watch and report on porn movies. Now that porn featuring consenting adults is once again a top priority for the Justice Dept and FBI, this old, unseen file has suddenly become highly relevant again.

Films From the National Reconnaissance Office

exclusive: We’ve received and digitized three short films in which the nation’s spy-satellite agency talks about itself, with sometimes unintentionally hilarious consequences

FBI Research Reports on the Ku Klux Klan

exclusive: Two previously unseen monographs covering the Klan’s history from 1865 to 1958. Based on often obscure public-source documents, internal Klan literature, and confidential material, such as informants and FBI investigative files

Gene Kelly’s Naval Intelligence File

exclusive: Navy investigated the legendary actor-dancer for alleged Communist activity

“Emissions From Reactions in Nuclear Weapons”

exclusive: What happens when nukes explode. From the Defense Atomic Support Agency. Originally classified “Secret,” now almost unredacted

US Army Chemical Corps Documents

exclusive: Reports from the biological, chemical, and radiological warfare program of the US. Originally classified, now completely unredacted

“Tactics and Technique of Chemical Warfare”

exclusive: 1926 military manual on conducting chemical warfare

Photos of the Iran Hostage Crisis

exclusive: 74 photographs included on the “Espionage Den” CDs. They show the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran, the taking of hostages, the inside of the Embassy, and more

“Documents From the US Espionage Den”

exclusive: 400 pages of still-classified CIA and State Dept documents seized from the US Embassy in Tehran

List of Videos the From Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

exclusive: Hundreds of videos – many restricted – from the LA Sheriff’s Video Production Unit

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Brief Bank Index

exclusive: Never-before-published guide to aspects of employment discrimination law. Initially the EEOC was going to withhold large portions of this document, but eventually decided to release it in its entirety

“75 Years of IRS Criminal Investigation History”

exclusive: Uncensored version of a book-length report that the IRS pulled from libraries in 1996. In it, their investigative division celebrates its biggest cases since 1919, provides stats, and profiles its leaders

updated: Air Force Arms Lab Reports (Front Matter)

exclusive: Now includes a second batch of title pages and tables of contents from 1960s technical reports on chemical, biological, psychological and other weapons then in the US arsenal

“The US Army Radioactive Waste Disposal Program in the United States”

exclusive: A 1966 “Official Use Only” report released earlier this month

Disease Vector Risk Assessment Profiles From the Navy

exclusive: Previously unavailable reports on disease risks in 147 countries

Previously Unreleased Economic and Labor Briefings from the Dept of Labor

exclusive: 51 issues of the weekly “Briefing on Economic and Labor Market Conditions”

“Overview of the Army’s Chemical and Biological Materiel Program”

exclusive: A 1973 briefing declassified days ago and presented here. Due to an error, one page that should’ve been censored in its entirety is completely visible

Sealed Testimony From Justice Dept’s Case Against the Tobacco Industry

Testimony from former tobacco insider sealed and removed from Web because it quotes sensitive internal memo

Conscientious Objection Applicants in the Navy, 2003-2004

exclusive: The US Navy reveals the number of officers and enlisted personnel who applied for – and received – conscientious objector status in the last two calendar years

updated: Reports Purged From the Website of the Civil Rights Commission

exclusive: We’ve recovered and posted 19 of the 20 politically-inconvenient reports that were deleted from the Commission’s site

Voice of America’s Prepared Obituaries for Castro and Yeltsin

exclusive: In a decision it now calls a mistake, the US government’s news organization has released audio of two advance obituaries for still-living leaders. Hear them online

NCIS and “NCIS”

exclusive: Email exchanges and almost 200 photos from the real Naval Criminal Investigative Service to a writer-producer of the show “NCIS”

Restricted Documents From the Department of Homeland Security

Guidelines, advisory, and conference presentation marked “For Official Use Only”

repost: photos: Senior US Officials Cozy up to Dictator Who Boils People Alive

He may be a brutal, fingernail-ripping, electric-shocking despot, but he’s our brutal, fingernail-ripping, electric-shocking despot

Military Contract for Pulsed Energy Projectile (PEP) Pain Study

exclusive: University of Florida to figure out how to get maximum pain out of “non-lethal” directed-energy weapon

updated: Listing of Classified and Restricted Documents at the Air Force Historical Research Agency

exclusive: Over 500,000 documents cover almost every aspect of US military history from the 1920s to the early 1990s, but very few have ever been released. This is the first time that this massive list has been seen by the public

updated: LSD Reports From the US Military

exclusive: The previously unreleased “Lysergic Acid Diethyl Amide (LSD-25): A Clinical-Psychological Study” from the Naval Medical Research Institute is the third of many such reports that we’ll be posting

Faith-Based Funding Recipients, 2003

Newly-available information on exactly who received “faith-based” federal money during 2003

updated: Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq & Afghanistan: A Photo Gallery

warning: two of these pictures are graphic

Pamphlet From the Off-Limits CIA Museum

exclusive: Just released, handout literature from the intelligence museum we can’t visit

Document: Intelligence Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse Were Threatened

Memo reproduced in full

Documents on BZ: A Partial List

exclusive: Information on 40 military reports concerning the superhallucinogen BZ, a chemical weapon from the 1960s and 1970s

FBI Reports on Agent Misbehavior

exclusive: Three previously unreleased reports on unprofessional and criminal conduct by FBI agents

updated: Another Official Pre-9/11 Image of the WTC Being Targeted

Illustration of crosshairs on the North Tower also shows up in 1999 Air Force manual

Photo From the Funeral of Lance Corporal Nathan Wood

Killed in Fallujah

Notable People Who Don’t Have an FBI File

exclusive: Mainly of use to other researchers, this running list keeps tabs on recently deceased notables who weren’t the subject of a file at FBI headquarters

“Nonlethal Weapons: Terms and References”

Report from the Air Force Academy lists around 200 types of “nonlethal weapons,” including many obscure ones

Database of Consumer Complaints to the Federal Trade Commission

exclusive: The first public presentation of the FTC’s Consumer Response Center database, September 1997 – December 2001

“The Origins of the National Security Agency, 1940-1952″

exclusive: Declassified last month after 14 years, this book-length report documents the creation of the NSA. Presented for the first time anywhere