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U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol
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This is a collection materials (primarily documents and video) produced by the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol , or "January 6th Committee," which first convened in 2021 and continued its work through 2022. Some materials archived here were originally posted at this web site: https://january6th.house.gov/ . Others included from https://docs.house.gov/committee/search/ and...
Topics: January 6th Committee, Donald J. Trump, 2020 Presidential Election, Electoral College, Coup, Daniel...
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Aug 18, 2020
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U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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This is a declassified version of the U.S. Senate Committee on Intelligence report, "Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election", first released in 2019 here: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures The report includes: Volume 1: Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure Volume 2: Russia's Use of Social Media Volume 3: U.S. Government Response to Russian...
Topics: Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), Russian Active Measures, 2016, Presidential Election,...
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Seattle Police Department (SPD)
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This is a copy of Seattle Police Department (SPD) regulations related to its Public Request Unit, revised in February 22, 2009, and released to the historian Trevor Griffey in 2010 in response to a Public Records Act request.
Topics: Seattle Police Department (SPD), Public Records Act (PRA), Public Request Unit, Public Disclosure...
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Seattle Police Department (SPD)
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This is a collection of guides and inventories for the archives of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) in the late 1990s. Together, they were collected as the "A GUIDE AND INVENTORY TO THE ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF THE SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT" by Peter M. McLellan. They were acquired by the historian Trevor Griffey in 2009, following the publication of his op-ed for the Seattle Times, which argued that the Seattle Police Department is out of compliance with municipal and...
Topics: Seattle Police Department (SPD), Archives, Finding Aid, Guide, Inventory, History
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The Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
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This is a copy of the walking map, "We Built This City: A Labor History Tour of Los Angeles."
Topics: labor union, labor unions, Los Angeles, labor history, labor studies, walking tour, map, radical,...
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San Francisco State Strike Committee
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This is a copy of the 1969 publication, "On Strike: Shut It Down", by the San Francisco State Strike Committee. It was first digitized and shared with the public here: http://digital-collections.library.sfsu.edu/digital/collection/p16737coll1/id/455/rec/63
Topics: San Francisco State College, San Francisco State University (SFSU), California State University...
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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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This is a copy of FBI files shared with the Church Committee , which were recently declassified and released in compliance with the JFK Records Act . The file name is "SENSTUDY 75", number 62-116395. These particular copies were originally released online by the National Archives, but have been renamed by serial number for this collection.
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intelligence,...
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UCLA Chancellor's Commission on the Events of May 5, 1970
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This is a copy of the report by the UCLA Chancellor's Commission on the Events of May 5, 1970, titled "Violence at UCLA: May 5, 1970." The report's members included Page Ackerman , Henry Espinoza, Melville Nimmer , Tom Norminton , and Everett Wells. The commission's Secretary was Fred Slaughter , and its Chairman was Irving Bernstein . The report documents the police riot by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on May 5, 1970 that seemed to target men with long hair and people...
Topics: Page Ackerman, Henry Espinoza, Melville Nimmer, Tom Norminton, Everett Wells, Fred Slaughter,...
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This is a finding aid and guide to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary's File. The original copy of the guide, aide, and materials listed in the aide are located at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library .
Topics: Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), President of the United States, Finding Aid, Guide, Manuscript,...
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Aug 21, 2018
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Aug 21, 2018
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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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This is a copy of a quarterly report produced by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) summarizing its national defense investigations in 1940. The original copy of the report was first digitized and published online by the Roosevelt Presidential Library here: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/morg/md0431.pdf
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Communist Party, J. Edgar Hoover, President of the United...
This is a research guide produced by LexisNexis regarding "FBI Reports on the Franklin D. Roosevelt White House." It lists reports from the Roosevelt library that have been microfilmed, and provides a guide to understanding them. Copies of the reports listed in the guide are available in the Proquest "History Vault" and at the Roosevelt Library.
Topics: Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), President of the United States, J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau of...
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Aug 21, 2018
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Mao Zedong
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This is a copy of a fourth edition pamphlet published in English by the "Foreign Languages Press" in the People's Republic of China and registered in 1967 with the U.S. Department of Justice as part of its "Foreign Agents Registration Section." This particular copy was sold by Fanshen Books in Seattle, Washington. The pamphlet, "Combat Liberalism", was originally written on September 7, 1937.
Topics: Marxism, Liberalism, China, Mao Tse-Tung, Mao Zedong, Opportunism, Communist Party, Communism,...
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Aug 21, 2018
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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This is a collection of files released by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in response to a 2014 FOIA request for its "standard operating procedures" for handling FOIA requests. In response, the CIA released 158 pages of previously declassified documents related to its "reference guide/ handbook/ manual."
Topics: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), reference guide, hand book,...
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This is a copy of the October, 1973 history of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) relationship with the White House, "Keeping the President Informed: Current Intelligence Support for the White House", written by the historical staff of the CIA. It was declassified in March, 2018 and first released online by the CIA here: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/06737444
Topics: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), President of the United States (POTUS), History, Report,...
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This is a copy of the video of the event, " Seize the Time... Again! ", held at Seattle Central Community College in 2011 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Oriental Student Union (OSU) Sit In there in 1971 to demand greater inclusion of Asian Americans in faculty, staff, and administration positions, and to demand courses in Asian American history and culture.
Topics: Mike Tagawa, YK Kuniyuki, Ruthann Kurose, Sue Tomita, Alan "Al" Sugiyama, Keith...
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Jul 18, 2018
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Jul 18, 2018
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AFL-CIO
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This is a copy of "The AFL-CIO and Civil Rights", a pamphlet produced by the AFL-CIO "from the Report of the AFL-CIO Executive Council to the Thirteenth Convention, November 1979."
Topics: AFL-CIO, Labor Unions, Labor, Organized Labor, Civil Rights, Affrimative Action, Minorities, Women,...
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Jun 18, 2018
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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This is a copy of two different declassified versions of the 1967 U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report, "The New Left in Europe." One version of the report, given the document number C00530965 by the CIA, was released in October of 2000 with significant redactions on about 7 pages. The second version, released to the historian Trevor Griffey on July 5, 2016 in response to FOIA request F-2016-01325 (CIA)/ 1218881-000 (FBI), and given the document number C06548833 by the CIA,...
Topics: New Left, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Report, Europe, France, Germany, Netherlands, Great...
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Jun 18, 2018
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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This is a copy of two collections of documents from Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) that were declassified by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The first collection was probably declassified in the 1980s, and was later released on Dec. 21, 2011 on CD-ROM in response to a FOIA request F-2011-00472. The second set is a collection drawn from the JFK Assassination Records Collection declassification project at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Also included with this...
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Topics: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Operation CHAOS, MHCHAOS, Project MERRIMAC, Project RESISTANCE,...
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Jun 18, 2018
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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This is a copy of a selection of documents from Project MERRIMACK that were declassified by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), probably in the 1980s, and later released on Dec. 21, 2011 on CD-ROM in response to a FOIA request (number F-2011-00472). Also included with this collection is a spreadsheet of preprocessed/ already-declassified CIA documents containing the phrase "Project MERRIMACK." This spreadsheet was released by the CIA in response to FOIA request F-2011-00366....
Topics: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Project MERRIMAC, Project MERRIMACK, Operation CHAOS, MHCHAOS,...
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Jun 18, 2018
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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This is a copy of a selection of documents from Project RESISTANCE that were declassified by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), probably in the 1980s, and later released on Dec. 21, 2011 on CD-ROM in response to a FOIA request (number F-2011-00472). Also included with this collection is a spreadsheet of preprocessed CIA documents containing the phrase "Project RESISTANCE". This spreadsheet was released by the CIA in response to FOIA request F-2011-00366. According to a...
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Topics: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Project RESISTANCE, Operation CHAOS, MHCHAOS, Project MERRIMAC,...
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Jun 17, 2018
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Jun 17, 2018
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
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This is a copy of 836 historic documents from 1945-47, declassified and organized by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in May 2009. The documents provide information related to the founding of the CIA and "the creation of the intelligence community" in the U.S.. This particular copy of these documents was distributed for free on CD-ROM discs at the CIA's booth at the American Historical Association (AHA) annual meeting held in Boston, MA in 2011. The CIA has a long history...
Topics: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), History, Documents, Creating Global Intelligence, Creating...
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Jun 17, 2018
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Walter Elder, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
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This is a copy of an excerpt of a draft history of John McCone's time as Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, titled "John A. McCone: The Sixth Director of Central Intelligence." The draft was written by Walter Elder, and edited by Mary S. McAuliffe, who worked as historians for the CIA. The copy includes only Chapter 4 (pages 34-47), part of Chapter 18 (pages 293-300), and pages 84-85, 92-93, and a 25 page chronology of McCone's major activities during his time as...
Topics: Walter Elder, Mary McCauliffe, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John McCone, John F. Kennedy, Bay...
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Jun 17, 2018
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Jun 17, 2018
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U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
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This is a copy of "DCI-5", a December, 1972 report by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Historical Staff, titled "Internal Audit of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1947 through 1967." The report describes the function of the CIA auditor over the first twenty years of the agency, and includes multiple organization charts as appendices. This copy of the report was released to the historian Trevor Griffey in response to FOIA F-2014-00786. As part of the...
Topics: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Audit, Histories Program, Historical Staff, History, Staff
This a collection of memos produced by former FBI Director James Comey about his interactions with Donald Trump. This particular copy was first uploaded by the New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/us/politics/comey-memos-trump-justice-department.html
Topics: James Comey, Donald Trump, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), memos, memo, President of the...
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Mar 21, 2018
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Mar 21, 2018
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This is a collection of documents and news related to the vulnerability of the U.S. energy system to cyber attack and cyber war, in particular from Russia. For the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's March 15, 2018 joint Technical Alert (TA), "Russian Government Cyber Activity Targeting Energy and Other Critical Infrastructure Sectors", see: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A For various related alerts from the U.S. Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response...
Topics: Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Preventative Action, Idaho National Laboratory (INL),...
This is a collection of documents and reports on Russian cyber war that hacked and shut down parts of the Ukranian power grid in December of 2015. For documents and reports related to the Russian hack of U.S. energy sites, see: https://archive.org/details/Power-Grid-Hacking-Russia-USA
Topics: Ukraine, Electricity, Power, Grid, Infrastruction, Cyber War, Cyber Attack, Russia, 2015,...
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Feb 27, 2018
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Kenneth E. Greer
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This is a copy of a history of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report, "The Office of the Inspector General: January 1952 - December 1971", written by Kenneth E. Greer. It is monograph number seven of the DCI Histories Program (DCI-7), produced by the CIA's History staff. The report includes three appendices: A list of OIG personnel A list of surveys of different branches of the CIA conducted by the OIG A list of "special studies and surveys of functions" produced...
Topics: History, Kenneth E. Greer, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), DCI Histories Program, Office of...
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Feb 26, 2018
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Feb 26, 2018
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Minority
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This is a declassified copy of memo, "Correcting the Record- The Russia Investigation", produced by the Democrat Minority of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It was first released online here: https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hpsci_redacted_minority_memo.pdf
Topics: Russia, Memo, United States House, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI),...
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Feb 22, 2018
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Feb 22, 2018
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This is a copy of the February, 2018 report, "The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation." It was first published online here: https://maliciousaireport.com/
Topics: Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk,...
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Feb 21, 2018
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Feb 21, 2018
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This is a collection of documents released by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation of Russian interference of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election . Some of the documents were first released online by the U.S. Department of Justice here: https://www.justice.gov/sco The rest are copies of documents uploaded to this site: https://www.justsecurity.org/46583/unsealed-documents-special-counsel-mueller-investigation/ For additional materials related to various court cases...
Topics: Robert Mueller, Special Counsel, Investigation, Russia, United States, Department of Justice,...
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Oct 8, 2017
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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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This is a collection of declassified documents on Muhammad Ali first released by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) online here on Nov. 22, 2016: https://vault.fbi.gov/muhammad-ali However, whereas the original release by the FBI was a disorganized jumble, these documents have been reorganized by file number. This is not by any means a complete collection of FBI documents on Ali. It contains only a few serials from the main FBI file on Ali, file 100-HQ-436351. The FBI may still...
Topics: Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay, Louisville, Kentucky, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),...
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
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This is a copy of the contents of the two CD-ROM discs from the project, "Documents on Diplomacy: Primary Source Documents and Lessons from the World of Foreign Affars 1775-2011." They were created and distributed by the U.S. Department of State in 2011 to celebrate the agency's 150th anniversary. According to the project's liner notes, the discs are intended for use by "secondary school teachers and their students", and contain "more than 300 primary source documents,...
Topics: Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), CD-ROM, teaching, lessons,...
This is a copy of a documentary about J. Edgar Hoover and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) timed for release with the 40th anniversary of Hoover becoming the FBI's Director. It appears to have been produced by WGN-TV (Chicago, Ill.) in cooperation by the FBI. A copy of the video was first released online by the National Archives and Records Administration here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1212
Topics: Ma and Fred Barker, Karpis, Rudolph Abel, John Dillinger, Prono Hauptmann, Charles Lindberg, Bob...
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Sep 22, 2017
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Sep 22, 2017
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U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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This is a copy of the "24 page supplement" to the Village Voice Vol. XXI, No. 7, Feb. 16, 1976 that it titled "The Report on the CIA that President Ford Doesn't Want You to Read." The report was an excerpt of a draft report by the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, or Pike Committee . This particular copy of this Village Voice issue was held in the archives of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), declassified in 2012, and released to the...
Topics: Village Voice, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on...
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Sep 4, 2017
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Sep 4, 2017
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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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This is a collection of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) documents related to the comedian Richard "Dick" Claxton Gregory . The documents were declassified in 2014-15. The FBI released the documents to the general public on its web site on August 30, 2017, not long after Gregory's passing on August 19. Unlike the files released on the FBI's web site, this collection is separated into different files, with each digital file named after the corresponding FBI file number....
Topics: Richard Gregory, Dick Gregory, Richard "Dick" Claxton Gregory, Federal Bureau of...
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Jun 26, 2017
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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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This is a copy of Richard M. Nixon's April 23, 1937 application to be an agent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He would later go on to be Vice President and then President of the United States. The application was first published online by the National Archives and Records Administration here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7857482 For information about why the FBI rejected Nixon's application, see: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/jan/08/fbi-nixon-application/
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Richard...
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Jun 26, 2017
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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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This is a declassified copy of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) "Official and Confidential" file. The file was likely declassified in the 1970s or 1980s, and its pages are in reverse chronological order in each of its 9 sections. It was first released online by the FBI in June, 2017 here: https://vault.fbi.gov/j.-edgar-hoover-official-and-confidential-o-c-files/ The original copy of the Official and Confidential file was transferred to the National Archives and Records...
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Official and Confidential, Karl S. Frey, Henry Cabot Lodge,...
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This is a copy of a "national intelligence estimate" by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) titled "The Soviet Role in Latin America." It was written April 29, 1971, and first published online here in 2017 by the Nixon Library: https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtuallibrary/releases/jun17/NIE_SovietRoleinLatinAmerica.pdf
Topics: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Soviet Union, Communist, United States, Central...
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Jun 15, 2017
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Jun 15, 2017
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U.S. Department of State
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This collection of declassified documents was released by the U.S. Department of State as "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, Iran, 1951–1954". Much of it deals with the lead up to and aftermath of the 1953 Iranian coup d'état . It was first released in June of 2017 here: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1951-54Iran For more information about the history of the campaign to get these documents declassified, see the National Security Archive post...
Topics: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Iran, Coup d'etat, TPAJAX, AJAX, Operation Boot, Coup, Mohammad...
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Jun 3, 2017
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Jun 3, 2017
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Charles Denby
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This is a copy of the November, 1960 pamphlet, "Workers Battle Automation", by Charles Denby (Simon Owens), published by News & Letters. It was originally published as a special issue of News & Letters in August and September, 1960, before being turned into a pamphlet. A copy of that issue may be found here: http://newsandletters.org/PDF-ARCHIVE/1960/1960-08-09.pdf
Topics: Charles Denby, News & Letters, Workers, Worker, Working Class, Labor, Labor Unions,...
This is a copy of the pamphlet, "FBI Plot Against the Black Movement", by Baxter Smith, from 1974.
Topics: Baxter Smith, Socialist Workers Party, SWP, Black Scholar, Pathfinder Press, Federal Bureau of...
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Jun 1, 2017
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Jun 1, 2017
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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These are documents produced by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Labor Committee, with Clarence Mitchell as its leader, in 1946 and 1947. They demonstrate civil rights movement support for "jobs and freedom": a linking of civil rights to labor rights, as well as full support for government planning to achieve full employment. These particular documents were extracted from correspondence files of Eleanor Roosevelt that were published online by...
Topics: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Labor Committee, Clarence...
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Jun 1, 2017
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Jun 1, 2017
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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This is a copy of the manuscript of "A Statement on the Denial of Human Rights to Minorities in the Case of citizens of Negro Descent in the United States of America and an Appeal to the United Nations for Redress." The manuscript was edited by WEB Du Bois, working under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It was also published with the title "An Appeal to the World." This copy from the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at the...
Topics: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), United Nations, Appeal to the...
This is a letter from Coretta Scott King, widow of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary opposing the appointment of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Alabama. In the letter, King argued that "if confirmed, he [Sessions] will be given life tenure for doing with a federal prosecution what the local sheriffs accomplished twenty years ago with clubs and cattle prods." The Chair of the...
Topics: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Jeff Sessions, Coretta Scott King, Racist, Racism, Segregation,...
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Feb 7, 2017
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Feb 7, 2017
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U.S. Department of Defense, Historical Office
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This is a copy of the 4th draft of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) report, "'Shots from a Luce Cannon': Combating Communism in Italy, 1953-1956", completed by Ronald D. Landa on November 12, 2011. It was declassified on January 11, 2016 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the National Security Archive in 1995. The document was first published online by the National Security Archive on Feb. 7, 2017 here:...
Topics: Ronald D. Landa, Communism, Anticommunism, Anti-Communism, United States, Italy, U.S. Department of...
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This is a collection of materials providing evidence that as many as 50 electors who cast ballots for Donald Trump in the 2016 electoral college did so in violation of state and/ or federal law. As stated in the executive summary, "Among the at least 50 Republican electors we identified, at least 16 electors lived outside the congressional districts they represented, in violation of state statutory residency requirements, and at least 34 electors held dual offices, in direct violation of...
Topics: Donald J. Trump, President, Vice President, Vote, Illegal, Unconstitutional, Illegitimate,...
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Jan 5, 2017
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Obama White House
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This is a collection of "exit memos" from the members of President Barack Obama's Cabinet, submitted to "my fellow Americans" on January 4, 2017. It documents the work that Obama's Cabinet officials oversaw during the President's administration, before Donald Trump ascended to the Presidency as part of a Republican " wrecking crew " intent on destroying Obama's legacy and the federal agencies tasked with enforcing a century of laws produced by popular pressure from...
Topics: President Barack Obama, Cabinet, Donald J. Trump, Exit Memos, Legacy, Accomplishments, Wrecking Crew
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Nov 30, 2016
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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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This is an unrecorded serial from U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file 157-HQ-00, submitted on May 17, 1976, which makes the case for the continued surveillance of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) on the grounds that "they are engaged in activities for the purpose of overthrowing the Government of the United States and because the activities will involve the use of force or violence and the violation of Federal law." It later added that "the likelihood that the harm...
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Socialist Workers Party (SWP), intelligence, surveillance,...
This is a copy of the "Draft Resolution on Support to the Struggle of the Negroes of the United States", submitted by Cuba to the First Conference of the Organization of Latin American Solidarity in August of 1967. It is an excerpt from Serial 969 of FBI file 100-HQ-446080 on Stokely Carmichael.
Topics: Cuba, First Conference of the Organization of Latin American Solidarity, Negro, Black, Struggle,...
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This is a collection of declassified U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aerial surveillance footage of Black Lives Matter protests that took place in Baltimore from April 29 to May 3, 2015 following the murder of Freddie Gray . It was originally published online by the FBI here in August of 2016: https://vault.fbi.gov/protests-in-baltimore-maryland-2015/unedited-versions-of-video-surveillance-footage
Topics: Freddie Gray, Black Lives Matter, #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Police, Baltimore Police Department...
This is a copy of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director J. Edgar Hoover's testimony to President Richard Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest. It was first published online by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/29915391
Topics: J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), New Left, Campus Unrest, Civil Disorder,...
This is a copy of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) photograph of Director J. Edgar Hoover. It was published online by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/518187
Topics: J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Photograph
This is a copy of a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) photograph of then Special Agent G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy later went on to become famous for being one of President Richard Nixon's " plumbers ", and for his subsequent conviction for conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping. The photograph was published online by NARA here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/518189
Topics: George Gordon Battle Liddy, G. Gordon Liddy, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), photograph,...
This is a copy of a World War II propaganda poster, "Appreciate America/ Do Your Share", published online by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/513872
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), World War II, Propaganda, Poster, War
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This is a copy of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) film, "Crowds and their Behavior." It was digitized and published online by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12097 NARA describes the film as "TRAINING FILM: Compiled for training purposes by FBI from film footage supplied by various news media and law enforcement agencies. Shows scenes from actual riots and disorderly assemblies, chaotic beach scenes,...
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), riot, military, Philadelphia, police
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This is a copy of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) film, "Hostile Intelligence Threat", created for FBI employees in 1981. The film was digitized by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and published online here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12176 NARA described the film as a "TRAINING VIDEO RECORDING: Recruitment of U.S. citizens by foreign governments as intelligence agents such as KGB and GRU. Narrated by FBI Director William Webster....
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Intelligence, Counterintelligence, KGB, GRU, William Webster
This is a copy of the third episode of the four-part series, "In the Face of Terrorism". Its title is "Protecting a Free Society". It was broadcast by WJLA-TV, and a copy of that broadcast ended up in the files of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). After the copy was transferred to National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), NARA digitized it and published it online here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12162 NARA describes the film in this way:...
Topics: William Webster, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Daryl Gates, Los Angeles Police Department...
This is a copy of a TV documentary report, "The People and the Police: Oakland", produced by KRON-TV. A copy of the film was acquired by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as part of the FBI archives, and then digitized by NARA and published online here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12120 NARA described the film as follows: "TELEVISION NEWS PROGRAM: This film is about police brutality in...
Topics: Oakland Police Department (OPD), Oakland, Police, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Ron...
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This is a copy of the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) propaganda film on "operation abolition", the campaign to abolish HUAC and protests against HUAC hearings in San Francisco in 1960. It was found in the archives of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and published online by the National Archives and Records Administration here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/12088
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Topics: Operation Abolition, House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), San Francisco, Communist...
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These are digital copies of cassette tape recordings of depositions conducted in 1975 as part of the legal case, Iberia Hampton, et al. v. City of Chicago, et al. . The case was brought by the mother of Fred Hampton, Sr. against the City of Chicago over the assassination of her son by Chicago police. The recordings were first made available online by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7284498
Topics: Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP), Fred Hampton, Iberia Hampton, Chicago Police Department...
According to the National Archives, "During the night of June 17, 1972, five burglars broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC. These are two photographs used as exhibits in the trial of Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy." The photographs were first uploaded online here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/304965
Topics: Watergate, President Richard Nixon, G. Gordon Liddy, Eugenio Martinez, Frank Sturgis, E. Howard...
This is a collection of U.S. government documents about the governments of Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet in Chile. They were produced by the following federal agencies: the State Department (State), National Security Council (NSC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), White House, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the U.S. embassy in Chile, and the governments of Chile and Argentina. They were first released online by...
Topics: State Department, National Security Council (NSC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), White House,...
This is a copy of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division's "Investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department", along with an executive summary and agreement in principle between the DOJ and the City. It was first released online on August 10, 2016 here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-findings-investigation-baltimore-police-department The investigation was precipitated by the death of Freddie Gray . The investigation...
Topics: Baltimore, police department, BPD, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Freddie Gray,...
This is a copy of the full report, executive summary and press release of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force, released to the public online on April 13, 2016 here: https://chicagopatf.org/ The report found that "74% of people killed or injured by Chicago police officers were African American, over the last eight years" 76% of people who Chicago police used tasers on from 2012-15 were African American 46% of all traffic stops by Chicago police in 2013 involved African...
Topics: Chicago, Police Department, Racism, Racist, Traffic Stop, Violence, Excessive Force, Murder,...
This is a collection of documents produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) related to Iraq's use of chemical weapons during the 1980s. They were declassified between 2007-9, and first published online in 2013 by the publication Foreign Policy, accompanying the article titled "Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran", here: https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/ According to the...
Topics: Iraq, Iran, United States, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), chemical weapons, chemical warfare,...
This is campaign literature produced by Richard Nixon's 1972 Presidential reelection campaign, titled "About Education."
Topics: Richard Nixon, reelection, election, campaign 1972, education, vocational, higher education,...
This is campaign literature, titled "About Crime.", produced by Richard Nixon's 1972 Presidential campaign.
Topics: Richard Nixon, President, Campaign, 1972, Reelection, War on Crime, Organized Crime Control Act,...
This is a copy of Richard Nixon's 1972 Presidential campaign literature, "Clearest Choice of the Century."
Topics: Richard Nixon, President, Campaign, 1972, Literature, George McGovern, Busing, Vietnam war, Israel,...
This is a copy of "John McCone as Director of Central Intelligence, 1961-65", a monograph produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI), and written by David Robarge in 2005. The document was declassified in April of 2015, and released to the public on the CIA's web site here along with various memoranda: http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/john-mccone-director-central-intelligence-1961-1965 Mr. Robarge's 2013 article, "Death of...
Topics: John McCone, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Director of Central Intelligence, Bay of Bigs, John...
This is a collection of declassified FBI and FAA documents related to aerial surveillance of protests against police brutality in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray . They were released to the American Civil Liberties Union in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, and first published online here: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/fbi-documents-reveal-new-information-baltimore-surveillance-flights
Topics: Freddie Gray, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),...
This is a copy of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) report R42738, "Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2015", by Barbara Salazar Torreon.
Topics: United States, Military, Invasion, Intervention, Use of Force, War, counter-insurgency, Invade
This is a copy of Retired U.S. Army Colonel Gerald A. Lechliter's analysis of documents related to President George W. Bush's service record during the Vietnam war, published online by the New York Times in 2004 here: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/opinion/lechliter.pdf
Topics: President, George W. Bush, Military Service, Draft, Vietnam, Texas Air National Guard (TXANG),...
This is the pdf version of the September 14, 2015 report by the Ferguson Committee, which describes itself on its web site as "an independent group appointed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on November 18, 2014, to conduct a 'thorough, wide-ranging and unflinching study of the social and economic conditions that impede progress, equality and safety in the St. Louis region.'" The report's content was first released in non-traditional multimedia on its web site , organized around...
Topics: Michael Brown, St. Louis, Ferguson, Police, brutality, accountability, riot, commission, race,...
This is a guide produced by the Washington State Archives of the state's papers from its Emergency Relief Administration (1933-37). The papers are located in in Olympia, Washington. For more information, see the Great Depression in Washington State History Project at the University of Washington.
Topics: Washington state, emergency relief administration (ERA), Washington State Archives, Charles F....
This is a four part series of reports, titled "Race to the Bottom," was produced in 2015 by the California Faculty Association (CFA) , which represents over 20,000 faculty who teach in the California State University system. The series documents the systematic de-funding and de-valuing of faculty by CSU administrators between 2004 and 2014. During this time, the percentage of tenure track faculty teaching at CSU declined from 43% to 40% (the lowest percentage in over 15 years, perhaps...
Topics: California State University (CSU), Charles B. Reed, Timothy P. White, neoliberalism, adjunct,...
This is a declassified copy of the 1994 report, "Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952-1954", written by Nicholas Cullather while he was working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Center for the Study of Intelligence. Cullather later went on to publish Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 in 1999. This particular history was published online by the Central Intelligence Agency here:...
Topics: Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Nicholas Cullather,...
This a copy of a U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file on John Doar . It was first released to the public by the publication Mother Jones here: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/john-doar-fbi-file-civil-rights
Topics: John Doar, Attorney General, Civil Rights, FBI, Black Freedom Movement, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John...
This is a copy of the three-part report, "The Art of the Gouge: How NYU squeezes billions from our students— and where that money goes", produced by the New York University (NYU) Faculty Against the Sexton Plan (FASP). It was published in May of 2015 on the FASP web site here: http://nyufasp.com/ Part 1 is titled "The Big Squeeze: NYU’s relentless cash extraction" Part 2 is titled "Billions spent on real estate while students sleep on benches" Part 3 is...
Topics: New York University (NYU), Faculty Against the Sexton Plan (FASP), Martin Lipton, John Sexton,...
This is a collection of documents that form some of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) standard operating procedure (SOP) for processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. It was released to the historian Trevor Griffey on April 22, 2015 in response to FOIA request 1259264-000.
Topics: Trevor Griffey, standard operating procedure, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Federal Bureau of...
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This is a copy of the declassified "Report on the President's Surveillance Program," produced by the Offices of the Inspectors General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Defense (DOD), National Security Agency (NSA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). It was declassified for the first time and released to the New York Times on April 24, 2015 as part of the lawsuit New York Times Company v. U.S....
Topics: Department of Justice (DOJ), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Defense (DOD),...
This is a collection of declassified documents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Headquarters file on the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The file's first five sections, comprising sections 1-86, cover the years 1957- April, 1964. Serials 192-989 cover the years period October, 1964- December, 1965. Serials 1534-1881 cover the period August 1966- May 1967. The periods May, 1964 to September 1964, and January 1966 to July 1966 have so far not been included in...
Topics: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Martin...
This page once contained a copy of video of the beating of Rodney King in 1991, released in 2015 by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) online here: http://vault.fbi.gov/rodney-king/video/rodney-king-video The file has been removed from this page at the request of the copyright holder, George Holliday, who may be contacted via this web site: www.rodneykingvideo.com
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Rodney King, Los Angeles, Video
This is the U.S. Department of Justice report on the Ferguson, MO police department, the result of an investigation precipitated by the shooting of Michael Brown and the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. It concludes that "Ferguson’s law enforcement practices are shaped by the City’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs. This emphasis on revenue has compromised the institutional character of Ferguson’s police department, contributing to a pattern of...
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Topics: Ferguson, #BlackLivesMatter, Michael Brown, Police, Department of Justice, Racial Profiling, Racism
This is a copy of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General's 2012 report, "A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Activities Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Amendments Act of 2008." The document was first released to the New York Times in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, and published online to accompany this article: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/12/us/12-doj-ig-fbi-702-foia.html
Topics: Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Inspector General (OIG), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...
This is a copy of the 525 page "executive summary" of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's 6007 page report on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) use of torture as part of its "detention and interrogation program." The report, nicknamed "the study," was a result of more than 5 years of investigations that drew upon more than 6 million pages of documents. These 525 redacted pages were declassified and first released to the public on December 9,...
Topics: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Dianne Feinstein, Torture, Detention, Interrogation, Senate,...
These are three monographs (each roughly 100 pages) produced by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s Central Research Section about the Nation of Islam (NOI) for the use of FBI agents. They are: "Muslim Cult of Islam" (6/28/1955) "The Nation of Islam (Antiwhite, All-Negro Cult in the United States)" (10/1960) "Nation of Islam: Cult of the Black Muslims" (5/1965) The documents were downloaded from the FBI's web site here:...
Topics: Nation of Islam (NOI), Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm Little, Malcolm X, John Ali, Federal Bureau of...
This is a collection of some of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) files on American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Russell Means, released by the FBI in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request number 1202154, and first published online at the FBI's web site here: http://vault.fbi.gov/russell-means/ The files are primarily specific to its investigation of some of his activities related to the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota . The collection consists primarily...
Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Russell Means, American Indian Movement (AIM), Wounded Knee,...
This is a set of declassified articles from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) journal, Studies in Intelligence . They were declassified as a result of Jeffrey Scudder's lawsuit against the CIA, which, he told the Washington Post , " destroyed my entire career. " The articles were first released to the public on the CIA's web site here: http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/declassified-articles-studies-intelligence-cias-house-intelligence-journal . The CIA quickly abandoned that...
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Topics: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Scudder v. CIA, Jeffrey Scudder, Studies in Intelligence
This is a copy of the first part of the main U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Headquarters file on Robert Welch and the John Birch Society (JBS) . The document collection includes the first 36 sections of the file plus one subfile, covering the time period 1957-64. All subsequent sections of the file are excluded. Correspondence with the public is excluded from sections 16-36. The collection was declassified from 2012-14 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the...
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Topics: John Birch Society (JBS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Robert W. Welch
This is a declassified copy of the June 6, 1975 report by the "Executive Director of the CIA Commission concerning possible CIA involvement in plans to assassinate foreign leaders." This particular copy was located in the files of Richard B. Cheney from his time as Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford. It was published online here by the Gerald Ford Presidential Library: http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0005/7324009.pdf Jack Marsh's memo to President Ford...
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Topics: Plot, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Gerald Ford, Assassination, Investigation, Foreign...
This is a collection of five volumes of transcripts of the Executive Sessions of Joseph R. McCarthy's U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on the Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations from 1953-54, along with an index to those transcripts. As the introduction to the documents written by Donald Ricthie notes, McCarthy held 117 executive sessions in 1953, "took testimony from 395 witnesses in executive sessions and staff interrogatories (by comparison to 214 witnesses in the...
Topics: Joseph McCarthy, Hearings, McCarthyism, Senate, Red Scare, Anticommunism, Communism, Cold War
This is a copy of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) main headquarters file on William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois from 1942-60, 100-HQ-99729. It was declassified in 1990, and contains significant redactions and withheld documents. It does not contain the FBI's documents on Du Bois from before 1942, nor does it include copies of the likely more voluminous "office of origin" field office file from New York City. A copy of this document may be found on the FBI's web...
Topics: William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), civil rights
This is a copy of various U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files on National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attorney and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. According to the Washington Post, the file was first declassified in the mid-1990s in response to a FOIA request from Alexander Charns: http://people.duke.edu/~ldbaker/clippings/tgood.html This collection of pdfs is sorted by FBI file number, unlike the collection located on the FBI web page...
Topics: Thurgood Marshall, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Federal...
This is a copy of the main U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters file on Paul Robeson , 100-HQ-12304. It was declassified in 1980. A copy of the file may be found here: http://vault.fbi.gov/Paul%20Robeson,%20Sr.
Topics: communist, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Paul Robeson, civil rights movement
This is a collection of U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation documents on civil rights movement leader Bayard Rustin . It includes one section, five "enclosures behind files" (EBFs), and a section on "June Mail" pertaining to the bugging of Rustin's home with "technical surveillance." The documents were declassified in 2009, and are drawn from what appear to be the FBI's main headquarters file on Rustin, 100-HQ-158790. The entirety of the file has likely been...
Topics: Bayard Rustin, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), civil rights movement
This is a copy of sections 1, 2, and 39 of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) main headquarters file on Betty Shabazz , 105-HQ-71196. It was declassified in 2010, and does not include most of the contents of the file, nor does it contain any of the FBI's field office files on Shabazz. A copy of these documents may also be found on the FBI's web site here: http://vault.fbi.gov/betty-shabazz
Topics: Betty Shabazz, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
This is a copy of FBI file 62-HQ-78270, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) main headquarters file on Roy Wilkins, a longtime leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Declassified in 1979 and 1984, the file is heavily redacted, and many pages have been withheld in their entirety. A copy of the file may be found here: http://vault.fbi.gov/Roy%20Wilkins It does not include a copy of the FBI's "office of origin" file, produced by its...
Topics: Roy Wilkins, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Federal Bureau of...
Personal Justice Denied is a report by the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), a commission created by the U.S. Congress in 1980 to study the causes and consequences of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Personal Justice Denied includes a December 1982 report on the Commission's findings, as well as the Commission's June 1983 recommendations. The Commission's report and findings were responses to the growing campaign for redress...
Topics: Internment, Japanese, Japanese Americans, Concentration Camps, Evacuation, Executive Order 9066,...
This is a copy of the report, "Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy," a 1988 report by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. The Subcommittee was chaired by then U.S. Senator John Kerry. The report documented significant "Contra drug links," and concluded that "senior U.S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras' funding...
Topics: Contras, Oliver North, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Drugs, Cocaine