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- 1992 QA-0137NSA · Correspondence
NSA records on the Pentagon's 1992 search for missing Cold War reconnaissance aircrews
Records released by the NSA in September 2025 and published in October 2026, detailing a 1992 Pentagon effort to work out whether crews of shot-down Cold War reconnaissance flights had been captured by the Soviet Union, China or others.
- 1980 QA-0142House · Collection
The 1980 Reagan–Carter ‘Debategate’ scandal files
Records on the controversy that erupted in 1983 when it emerged that Reagan's 1980 campaign had obtained Carter's confidential debate briefing materials before their 28 October debate.
- 1966 QA-0133NSA · Study
NSA Technical Journal: ‘Coupon Collecting and Cryptology’ (1966)
A mathematical paper by Marie Capozza from the Fall 1966 NSA Technical Journal, applying the classic 'coupon collector' probability problem to cryptology.
- 2010 QA-0135NSA · Study
NSA ‘Point Forecasts’: technology forecasting studies (brain–network interfaces, terahertz, energy harvesting)
Eight NSA technology-forecasting studies on privacy and anonymity, brain–network interfaces, advanced antennas, terahertz electronics and energy harvesting, released in 2026 in response to a FOIA request filed on 25 May 2011.
- 1972 QA-0143NSA · Study
NSA Technical Journal: ‘Maybe It's Related to the Phase of the Moon…’ (1972)
A heavily redacted 1972 NSA Technical Journal article, released in 2026 more than nine years after the FOIA request of 6 August 2017.
- 1963 QA-0134CIA · Manual
KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual (1963), most complete release
The CIA's 1963 interrogation manual, which described coercive techniques that later appeared in Cold War training materials, re-reviewed under a Mandatory Declassification Review (case EOM-2021-00117).
- 2025 QA-0140AARO · Report
AARO FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
The Pentagon UAP office's report for fiscal 2025, documenting 319 newly received reports; every resolved case was attributed to conventional causes.
- 2026 QA-0081CIA · Regulation
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records (Central Intelligence Agency, July 2026)
A CIA Privacy Act notice.
- 2026 QA-0111NI Executive · Dataset
Ministers' Gifts and Hospitality, January to June 2026 (Northern Ireland)
A register of gifts and hospitality offered to and accepted by Northern Ireland Executive ministers, published as open data.
- 2016 QA-0121ODNI · Memo
NIC Sense of the Community Memorandum: Kremlin-Ordered Assassinations Abroad Will Probably Persist (2016)
A National Intelligence Council 'Sense of the Community' memorandum (SOCM 2016-035C) assessing that Russian state-ordered killings abroad were likely to continue.
- 2025 QA-0132USTR · Correspondence
USTR emails on the President's intent to impose 100% tariffs on foreign movies (May 2025)
Internal Trade Representative emails from 1–7 May 2025, after the President announced a 100 percent tariff on foreign-made films.
- 2026 QA-0083Commerce · Regulation
Amending the Department of Commerce's Regulations Implementing the HAVANA Act
A 2026 rule revising how Commerce pays employees with qualifying brain injuries under the HAVANA Act, the law passed after the 'Havana Syndrome' anomalous health incidents.
- 2025 QA-0139NASA · Correspondence
NASA internal planning on how to announce discovery of extraterrestrial life (2025)
A FOIA response showing NASA discussions about how the agency would communicate a confirmed discovery of extraterrestrial life, including a 2025 meeting called to outline a formal communications protocol.
- 2023 QA-0141DoD · Memo
U.S. Space Command records on the 2023 ‘UAP Space Tiger Team’
A document released under FOIA case 24-F-1205 describing the 2023 formation of a 'UAP Space Tiger Team', led by AARO, focused on anomalous objects in space and 'transmedium' cases.
- 2014 QA-0122State · Correspondence
State Department contract to study detecting nuclear tests with smartphones (2014–2015)
Contract records for a State Department-funded study of whether the sensors in ordinary smartphones could help detect clandestine nuclear tests.
- 1995 QA-0123CIA · Manual
CIA List of Clandestine Services Historical Publications (1995)
An index of the CIA's internal Clandestine Service histories, the classified studies the agency wrote about its own operations.
- 1993 QA-0124CIA · Official history
Exit the Silkmaker: The CIA and Jim Thompson (Studies in Intelligence, 1993)
A 1993 article by historian Nick Cullather in the CIA's internal journal about Jim Thompson, the former OSS officer who revived the Thai silk industry and vanished in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands in 1967.
- 2025 QA-0131ABMC · Correspondence
ABMC records regarding removal of Black soldier panels at the Margraten cemetery, Netherlands (2025)
Records from the American Battle Monuments Commission about the 2025 removal of panels honoring Black American soldiers from the visitor center of the Netherlands American Cemetery at Margraten.
- 1993 QA-0125NRC · Memo
NRC: U.S. Purchase of Russian Highly Enriched Uranium Recovered From Nuclear Weapons (1993)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission material from 1993 on the U.S.–Russia agreement to buy uranium from dismantled Soviet warheads and blend it into reactor fuel.
- 1981 QA-0127USSS · Report
Secret Service Mission Assurance reports on the shootings of Reagan and Wallace and the attempt on Ford (1981)
The Secret Service's internal 'Mission Assurance' reviews of the 1981 shooting of President Reagan, the attempt on President Ford and the 1972 shooting of George Wallace.
- 2011 QA-0130NASA · Study
NASA: Lessons Learned from Fifty Years of Observing Hardware and Human Behavior (2011)
An internal NASA compilation distilling five decades of hardware failures and the human behavior around them, written for engineers rather than the public.
- 2018 QA-0138DOE · Report
DOE classified human subjects research records, from ‘Blue Dragon’ to ‘Woodstock’
Department of Energy records listing classified human subjects research projects, released after a seven-year FOIA wait.
- 1992 QA-0126NRC · Memo
NRC memo regarding radioactive metal sent to the United States from Mexico (SECY-92-042)
A 1992 Commission paper on radioactively contaminated metal entering the United States from Mexico, a problem made notorious by earlier incidents in which scrapped radiation sources were melted into steel products.
- 1969 QA-0128SAC · Official history
Project Crested Ice: The Thule Nuclear Accident, Vol. 1 (SAC Historical Study #113, 1969)
Strategic Air Command's official history of the January 1968 crash of a B-52 carrying four hydrogen bombs near Thule Air Base, Greenland, and of the cleanup of contaminated sea ice in the Arctic winter.
- 1963 QA-0017NARA · Collection
JFK Assassination Records — 2025 documents release
The March 2025 release of JFK assassination records, issued under an executive order directing that remaining redactions be lifted.
- 2025 QA-0082White House · Executive order
Executive Order 14176: Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The order directing full release of the remaining JFK records and a plan to release RFK and MLK assassination records, which had never been covered by the 1992 JFK Records Act.
- 2024 QA-0144HSGAC · Report
Senate Homeland Security Committee interim report on the 13 July 2024 Trump assassination attempt
The bipartisan Senate committee's interim findings on Secret Service failures at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally: communications breakdowns, unclear responsibilities and the unsecured roof.
- 2024 QA-0145House · Report
House report: how federal law enforcement commandeered financial institutions to spy on Americans (2024)
A 2024 House Judiciary subcommittee staff report alleging that federal agencies used banks' suspicious-activity tools to search customer transactions after January 6 using broad keywords.
- 2023 QA-0146FBI · Manual
FBI Domestic Terrorism Reference Guide: Sovereign Citizen Violent Extremism (U//FOUO)
An FBI reference guide for law enforcement on the sovereign-citizen movement: its pseudo-legal beliefs, paper-terrorism tactics and indicators of violence.
- 1947 QA-0018NARA · Collection
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection (NARA)
The collection Congress ordered NARA to build under the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, gathering UFO/UAP records from across the executive branch into one place.
- 2023 QA-0039NASA · Report
NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team — final report
NASA's first formal study of UAP, by an outside panel of scientists.
- 2023 QA-0080Robodebt RC · Report
Report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (2023)
Australia's Royal Commission into an automated welfare-debt scheme that used income averaging to raise unlawful debts against hundreds of thousands of people.
- 2022 QA-0094D.D.C. · Court docket
Thaler v. Perlmutter, 1:22-cv-01564 (D.D.C.) — copyright for AI-generated art
The case in which the Copyright Office refused to register an image created autonomously by Stephen Thaler's AI system.
- 1972 QA-0005CIA · Collection
The Nixon Collection: CIA support for the 1972 presidential trip to China
Eight documents (331 pages) that CIA prepared for Nixon and Kissinger before the February 1972 trip: city guides to Peking, Shanghai and Hangzhou, an 82-page atlas of the PRC, and leadership profiles of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.
- 2021 QA-0075SIGAR · Report
What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR-21-46-LL)
SIGAR's final lessons-learned report, published as Kabul fell.
- 2021 QA-0071DOJ OIG · Report
Investigation and Review of the FBI's Handling of Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Former USA Gymnastics Physician Lawrence Gerard Nassar
The Inspector General found that FBI agents failed to act on allegations against Larry Nassar for more than a year, during which he abused dozens more victims, and later made false statements about it.
- 2021 QA-0077ODNI · Report
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (ODNI, 2021)
The nine-page report to Congress that reviewed 144 U.S. government UAP reports from 2004 to 2021, explained one (a deflating balloon) and called UAP a flight-safety problem and possible national-security challenge.
- 2020 QA-0091D.D.C. · Court docket
United States v. Google LLC, 1:20-cv-03010 (search monopoly docket)
The full docket of the government's search antitrust case, in which Judge Amit Mehta ruled in 2024 that Google unlawfully maintained a monopoly.
- 2020 QA-0112World Bank · Study
Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts (World Bank WPS 9150)
World Bank economists found that aid disbursements to the most aid-dependent countries coincided with jumps in deposits in offshore financial centers, implying leakage of around 7.5 percent.
- 2019 QA-0070DOJ OIG · Report
Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
The Inspector General found the investigation properly opened, but identified 17 significant errors or omissions in the FISA surveillance applications targeting Carter Page.
- 1963 QA-0044NASA MSFC · Study
Nuclear Lunar Logistics Study (Marshall Space Flight Center, 1963)
A 1963 Marshall Space Flight Center briefing on using nuclear rocket stages to supply a sustained presence on the Moon.
- 2018 QA-0072EPA OIG · Report
Management Weaknesses Delayed Response to Flint Water Crisis (EPA OIG 18-P-0221)
The EPA Inspector General found that the agency had the authority and enough information to intervene in Flint at least seven months before it issued an emergency order.
- 2018 QA-0078OAG Canada · Report
Building and Implementing the Phoenix Pay System (Auditor General of Canada, Spring 2018, Report 1)
Canada's Auditor General called Phoenix an 'incomprehensible failure of project management and oversight': the federal payroll system launched in 2016 without full testing or a pilot, and key functions were cut to protect the schedule.
- 1965 QA-0057State · Briefing book
U.S. Embassy tracked Indonesia mass murder, 1965
Newly declassified U.S. Embassy Jakarta files showing that American officials knew in detail about the army-led massacres of hundreds of thousands of alleged communists in 1965–66, and supported the campaign.
- 1941 QA-0118NAI · Collection
Netaji Papers: declassified files on Subhas Chandra Bose
The government portal for files on Subhas Chandra Bose, declassified from January 2016 onward, including material on his disappearance after the reported 1945 air crash in Taipei.
- 1943 QA-0012FBI · Case file
Nikola Tesla: FBI file on the seizure of his papers
Records on what happened to Nikola Tesla's papers after he died in a New York hotel in January 1943, when the Office of Alien Property impounded his belongings.
- 1956 QA-0052SAC · Briefing book
Strategic Air Command declassifies nuclear target list from the 1950s
SAC's 'Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959', the most detailed list of Cold War nuclear targets ever declassified: more than a thousand airfields and industrial sites across the Soviet bloc and China, with 'population' itself listed as a target in cities such as Moscow, Leningrad and East Berlin.
- 1961 QA-0004CIA · Collection
President's Daily Brief, 1961–1969 (Kennedy and Johnson)
About 2,500 daily intelligence briefings written for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, starting with the President's Intelligence Checklist first delivered on 17 June 1961.
- 2015 QA-0065GAO · Report
Healthcare.gov: CMS Has Taken Steps to Address Problems, but Needs to Further Implement Systems Development Best Practices (GAO-15-238)
GAO's postmortem of the 2013 Healthcare.gov launch: inadequate capacity planning, uncorrected software errors, incomplete testing and an unreliable schedule.
- 2015 QA-0087DOJ · Report
Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (DOJ Civil Rights Division, 2015)
The Justice Department found that Ferguson, Missouri, used policing and municipal courts to raise revenue, with stops, fines and arrest warrants falling overwhelmingly on Black residents.
- 2015 QA-0034DOE-LM · Report
Final 2014 Remedial Action Report, Project Chariot, Cape Thompson, Alaska
Project Chariot was a 1958 plan to blast a harbor out of the Alaskan coast with nuclear explosives.
- 2014 QA-0098FAA · Dataset
Drone Sightings Near Airports (FAA UAS sightings reports)
Quarterly spreadsheets of pilot and controller reports of drones near airports since 2014, as free text.
- 2015 QA-0100OSHA · Dataset
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Since 2015 employers in federal OSHA states must report any amputation, eye loss or work-related hospitalization within 24 hours.
- 1748 QA-0117NAI · Database
Abhilekh Patal — National Archives of India online portal
The National Archives of India's portal to millions of digitized pages: colonial Home and Foreign Department files, Partition-era records and transferred ministry files.
- 2014 QA-0060SSCI · Report
Committee Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program (S. Rept. 113-288)
The declassified executive summary and findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee's study of CIA 'enhanced interrogation' after 9/11, drawn from millions of CIA cables.
- 2014 QA-0073VA OIG · Report
Review of Alleged Patient Deaths, Patient Wait Times, and Scheduling Practices at the Phoenix VA Health Care System
The Inspector General's investigation into secret waiting lists at the Phoenix VA, which hid how long veterans waited for care.
- 1971 QA-0022Nixon Library · Collection
Nixon White House tapes
About 3,700 hours of secretly recorded Oval Office, cabinet and telephone conversations from 1971 to 1973, released in batches over decades with the final segments in 2013.
- 1953 QA-0053CIA · Briefing book
CIA confirms role in 1953 Iran coup
Records released for the 60th anniversary of the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, including an internal CIA history that states the coup was carried out under CIA direction.
- 1992 QA-0051CIA · Briefing book
The Secret History of the U-2 — and Area 51
The CIA's internal history of the U-2 and OXCART overhead reconnaissance programs (1954–1974), released through a FOIA request with far fewer redactions than before.
- 2013 QA-0074TIGTA · Report
Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review (TIGTA 2013-10-053)
The audit that found the IRS had flagged applications from Tea Party and other groups by name and policy position instead of activity, with long delays and intrusive questions.
- 1995 QA-0108HMLR · Dataset
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Every residential property sale in England and Wales since 1995, with price, date, postcode and property type.
- 2012 QA-0067DOJ OIG · Report
A Review of ATF's Operation Fast and Furious and Related Matters
The Inspector General's account of the ATF operation that let some 2,000 firearms 'walk' to traffickers, guns later found at crime scenes in Mexico and at the killing of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
- 2011 QA-0041NASA JSC · Study
Warp Field Mechanics 101 (Harold White, NASA JSC)
A 2011 paper from a NASA Johnson Space Center engineer arguing that the energy requirements of an Alcubierre-style 'warp drive' might be far lower than thought, and proposing a lab interferometer test.
- 1969 QA-0016NARA · Report
Pentagon Papers: full declassified Report of the OSD Vietnam Task Force
All 47 volumes of the Defense Department's secret history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, officially declassified and released in 2011, forty years after the leak.
- 2011 QA-0079NAO · Report
The National Programme for IT in the NHS: an update on the delivery of detailed care records systems (NAO, 2011)
The UK auditor's verdict on the core of the NHS National Programme for IT, among the most expensive civilian IT failures anywhere.
- 1950 QA-0006FBI · Memo
Guy Hottel memo on ‘flying saucers’ recovered in New Mexico
A one-page memo from the head of the FBI's Washington field office passing along a second-hand story that three 'flying saucers', each holding small bodies, had been recovered in New Mexico.
- 1947 QA-0007FBI · Case file
FBI ‘UFO’ file (flying disc reports, 1947 onward)
The FBI's main file on 'flying discs', opened during the 1947 sighting wave when the Army Air Forces asked the Bureau to help vet reports.
- 1947 QA-0008FBI · Memo
Roswell UFO: FBI Dallas teletype of 8 July 1947
The FBI's contemporaneous teletype on the Roswell debris, sent the day the base announced it had recovered a 'flying disc'.
- 1988 QA-0009FBI · Case file
Majestic 12: FBI investigation of the MJ-12 documents
When documents describing a secret 'Majestic 12' UFO-recovery committee began circulating in the late 1980s, the FBI looked into whether classified information had leaked.
- 1979 QA-0010FBI · Case file
Animal Mutilation: FBI records on 1970s cattle mutilation reports
FBI correspondence and case material from the wave of 'cattle mutilation' reports in the 1970s, including requests from New Mexico officials and a U.S. senator to investigate cases on tribal land, where the Bureau had jurisdiction.
- 1932 QA-0011FBI · Case file
Albert Einstein: FBI surveillance file
More than 1,400 pages recording two decades of FBI suspicion of Albert Einstein, starting in 1932 with a patriotic group's petition to keep him out of the country.
- 1956 QA-0013FBI · Case file
COINTELPRO: FBI counterintelligence program files
Files from the FBI's 1956–1971 program to disrupt, discredit and divide domestic political groups, from the Communist Party to civil-rights, Black nationalist and New Left organizations.
- 1950 QA-0014FBI · Case file
Rosenberg case: FBI atomic espionage files
The FBI's investigative files on the Soviet atomic espionage ring that led to the 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
- 2011 QA-0035DOE-LM · Report
Gasbuggy Site Assessment and Risk Evaluation
Project Gasbuggy detonated a 29-kiloton nuclear device deep under New Mexico in 1967 to see whether nuclear blasts could free natural gas, an atomic precursor to fracking.
- 2011 QA-0061FCIC · Report
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report (FCIC, 2011)
The official commission report on the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, concluding it was avoidable and pointing to failures in regulation, corporate governance and risk management.
- 2010 QA-0085FEC · Legal opinion
FEC Advisory Opinion 2010-11 (Commonsense Ten)
The FEC opinion, following Citizens United and SpeechNow.org, that let a political committee making only independent expenditures raise unlimited contributions.
- 2010 QA-0090DOJ · Report
Amerithrax Investigative Summary (2010)
The DOJ and FBI's 92-page case that Army scientist Bruce Ivins carried out the 2001 anthrax letter attacks, released after his 2008 suicide closed the case without trial.
- 1979 QA-0109DfT · Dataset
Road Safety Data (STATS19)
Police-reported road collisions in Great Britain with location, vehicles, casualties and conditions, published by the Department for Transport.
- 2009 QA-0084SEC OIG · Report
Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme (OIG-509, public version)
The SEC Inspector General's account of how the agency received credible complaints about Madoff, including Harry Markopolos's detailed submissions from 2000 onward, and conducted examinations that never verified his trading.
- 2009 QA-0069DOJ OIG · Report
Unclassified Report on the President's Surveillance Program (2009)
A joint report by the Inspectors General of DOJ, DoD, CIA, NSA and ODNI on the warrantless surveillance program authorized after 9/11, including the 2004 hospital-room confrontation over its legality.
- 2009 QA-0076SIGIR · Report
Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience (SIGIR, 2009)
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction's history of how more than $50 billion in U.S. reconstruction spending was planned, improvised and often wasted.
- 2009 QA-0095Federal courts · Database
RECAP Archive: free PACER federal court records (CourtListener)
Millions of federal court dockets and filings, contributed by users of the RECAP browser extension each time they pay for a PACER document.
- 2008 QA-0149End of Term · Database
End of Term Web Archive
A consortium of libraries and archives that crawls the entire .gov web at every presidential transition since 2008, preserving pages that new administrations remove.
- 2008 QA-0093N.D. Cal. · Court docket
Jewel v. National Security Agency, 4:08-cv-04373 (N.D. Cal.)
A 13-year challenge to NSA dragnet surveillance by AT&T customers, which ended when courts accepted the government's state-secrets defense.
- 1995 QA-0015NSA · Official history
American Cryptology during the Cold War, 1945–1989 (Thomas R. Johnson)
The NSA's own four-volume classified history of U.S. signals intelligence from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall, by agency historian Thomas R. Johnson.
- 1952 QA-0116Arquivo Nacional · Database
SIAN — Arquivo Nacional information system (incl. Brazilian Air Force UFO records)
Brazil's National Archives database.
- 1922 QA-0119GoI Printing · Database
eGazette of India
The official Gazette of India: every notification, ordinance, appointment and rule with legal force, as scanned PDFs.
- 1973 QA-0001CIA · Report
The “Family Jewels”: CIA internal compilation of questionable activities
A roughly 700-page dossier assembled in 1973 at the order of Director James Schlesinger, listing CIA activities that may have broken the agency's charter: domestic wiretaps and surveillance of journalists, mail opening, and assassination plotting.
- 1945 QA-0020NARA · Collection
Nazi War Crimes Interagency Working Group records
The output of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, which forced the release of more than 8 million pages, including CIA and Army files showing that U.S. intelligence protected and used former Nazis after the war.
- 2007 QA-0068DOJ OIG · Report
A Review of the FBI's Use of National Security Letters (2007)
The first audit of the Patriot Act's expanded National Security Letters, which let the FBI demand phone, financial and internet records without a judge.
- 1977 QA-0120CNES / GEIPAN · Database
GEIPAN case archive (French space agency UFO bureau)
France's space agency has run an official unit to investigate unidentified aerospace phenomena since 1977, and in 2007 it opened its case files online.
- 2007 QA-0105EC · Database
EU Financial Transparency System
The European Commission's searchable register of who receives money from the directly managed EU budget: contractors, NGOs, universities, companies, with amounts and programme.
- 2006 QA-00929th Cir. · Court docket
Hepting v. AT&T Corporation, No. 06-17132 (9th Cir.)
The appeal in the EFF class action alleging that AT&T let the NSA copy internet traffic through a secret room in its San Francisco facility.
- 1974 QA-0055CIA · Briefing book
U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb
Declassified U.S. intelligence estimates on India's nuclear program, from early capability assessments through the 1974 'Smiling Buddha' test to the 1998 Pokhran tests, which caught Washington by surprise.
- 1938 QA-0096DOJ · Database
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings
Since 1938 people who lobby or do PR in the U.S. for foreign governments and parties have had to register, and their filings show contracts, payments and the 'informational materials' they spread.
- 2005 QA-0066DOJ OIG · Report
The FBI's Management of the Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Project (Audit 05-07)
The audit of Trilogy, the FBI's post-9/11 IT overhaul, including the Virtual Case File software abandoned after about $170 million because it did not work.
- 1971 QA-0048State · Official history
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI: South Asia Crisis, 1971
The State Department's documentary record of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani war, including the Nixon–Kissinger 'tilt' toward Pakistan despite reports of mass killings in East Pakistan.
- 1964 QA-0050NSA · Briefing book
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later
Declassified documents showing how thin the evidence was for the second North Vietnamese 'attack' on U.S. destroyers on 4 August 1964, which justified the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and escalation in Vietnam.
- 2004 QA-0106EC · Dataset
Consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions
The machine-readable master list of everyone under EU asset freezes, with legal basis, aliases and identifiers.
- 2003 QA-0047NASA · Report
Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report, Volume II (technical appendices)
The appendix volume behind the headline CAIB report: the technical analyses of the foam strike, debris reconstruction and NASA's organizational failures that doomed Columbia in February 2003.
- 1983 QA-0002US Army · Report
Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process
A 1983 US Army assessment, written by Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell, of the Monroe Institute's 'Gateway' technique, which uses binaural audio to induce altered states.
- 1967 QA-0054LLNL · Briefing book
The 1960s ‘Nth Country Experiment’ (Lawrence Livermore)
In the mid-1960s Livermore asked a few young physicists with no access to classified weapons data to design a nuclear bomb from open literature alone.
- 1996 QA-0110TNA · Database
UK Government Web Archive
The National Archives' legal archive of UK government websites since 1996, including closed inquiries, abolished departments and withdrawn guidance.
- 1971 QA-0056State · Briefing book
The Tilt: The U.S. and the South Asian Crisis of 1971
Documents on the Nixon administration's support for Pakistan during the 1971 crisis, including the 'Blood Telegram' in which U.S. diplomats in Dacca formally dissented over Washington's silence on atrocities.
- 2001 QA-0102DOL · Database
EEOICP Site Exposure Matrices (toxic substances at DOE weapons sites)
A Labor Department database listing which toxic substances were used at specific Department of Energy nuclear weapons facilities, by building and job title, along with linked diseases.
- 2000 QA-0088DOJ · Legal opinion
A Sitting President's Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution (OLC, 2000)
The Office of Legal Counsel opinion reaffirming that a sitting president cannot be indicted or prosecuted.
- 1995 QA-0003CIA · Memo
Senate Appropriations Committee Congressionally Directed Action, STAR GATE
An 11-page 1995 package produced as Congress directed the CIA to take over and evaluate STAR GATE, the Pentagon's two-decade 'psychic spying' (remote viewing) program.
- 1999 QA-0089D.D.C. · Court filing
U.S. v. Microsoft: Court's Findings of Fact (1999)
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's 412 findings of fact describing how Microsoft protected its Windows monopoly against Netscape and Java.
- 1999 QA-0046NASA · Official history
The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle (SP-4221)
T. A. Heppenheimer's official history of how the Shuttle's design was squeezed by Air Force requirements, OMB budget caps and political compromises in the early 1970s.
- 1999 QA-0099NRC Ops · Dataset
NRC Event Notification Reports
Daily reports of incidents that nuclear licensees must notify regulators about: reactor scrams, lost radioactive sources, security events, medical overdoses.
- 1999 QA-0113World Bank · Database
World Bank Listing of Ineligible Firms and Individuals
Companies and people barred from World Bank-financed contracts for fraud, corruption or collusion, with dates, grounds and cross-debarments by other development banks.
- 1998 QA-0114TRC · Report
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report
The full multi-volume report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on gross human-rights violations under apartheid, with amnesty decisions and victim findings.
- 1997 QA-0029BNL · Report
Historical events associated with fallout from Bravo Shot – Operation Castle, and 25 years of medical findings
Brookhaven National Laboratory's account of the March 1954 Castle Bravo test, whose yield far exceeded predictions and rained fallout on the inhabited atolls of Rongelap and Utirik.
- 1962 QA-0049JCS · Memo
Operation Northwoods: Joint Chiefs memo ‘Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba’
A 1962 Joint Chiefs proposal to stage fake attacks, including a staged airliner downing and terror incidents in U.S. cities, to be blamed on Cuba as a pretext for invasion.
- 1997 QA-0150CyberCemetery · Database
CyberCemetery: websites of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions
Since 1997 the University of North Texas, working with GPO, has archived the websites of federal agencies and commissions after they shut down: the 9/11 Commission, SIGIR and dozens more.
- 1990 QA-0104Census · Database
U.S. Census Bureau raw file server (www2.census.gov)
A bare Apache directory index behind the Census website, holding decades of raw survey files, geography shapefiles, technical documentation and abandoned products that are linked from nowhere else.
- 1995 QA-0036ACHRE · Report
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
The presidential committee report on Cold War radiation experiments on people, including plutonium injections into hospital patients without informed consent.
- 1995 QA-0064GAO · Report
Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico (GAO/NSIAD-95-187)
Congress's auditors were asked to find every government record on Roswell.
- 1960 QA-0103USGS EROS · Dataset
Declassified Satellite Imagery – 1 (CORONA, ARGON, LANYARD), USGS EarthExplorer
More than 860,000 spy-satellite images taken from 1960 to 1972, declassified by executive order in 1995 and searchable through USGS EarthExplorer.
- 1993 QA-0026Sandia · Report
Expert judgment on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Sandia report SAND92-1382: expert panels were asked how to warn people 10,000 years from now away from a nuclear waste repository in New Mexico, when no current language may survive.
- 1950 QA-0115Bundesarchiv · Collection
Stasi Records Archive (Bundesarchiv)
The files of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, opened to the people they spied on from January 1992.
- 1990 QA-0042NASA · Report
The Hubble Space Telescope Optical Systems Failure Report
The investigation into why the $1.5 billion telescope launched with a primary mirror ground to the wrong shape.
- 1990 QA-0097FAA · Dataset
FAA Wildlife Strike Database
Every reported collision between aircraft and wildlife in the U.S. since 1990, with species, airport, damage and cost.
- 1987 QA-0030DNA · Report
Analysis of radiation exposure: service personnel on Rongerik Atoll, Operation Castle – Shot Bravo
A 1987 Defense Nuclear Agency dose reconstruction for the U.S. weather-station crew on Rongerik Atoll, which the Bravo fallout cloud reached in 1954.
- 1987 QA-0062Congress · Report
Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair (1987)
The joint House–Senate report on the secret sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of proceeds to the Nicaraguan Contras in defiance of Congress.
- 1986 QA-0037NASA · Report
Rogers Commission, Appendix F: Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (Richard Feynman)
Richard Feynman's dissent, attached to the Challenger accident report after he threatened to remove his name.
- 1946 QA-0032JTF-1 · Report
Operation Crossroads: atomic bomb tests Able and Baker at Bikini Atoll
Joint Task Force One's report on the July 1946 tests that exposed a fleet of target ships to two atomic detonations at Bikini Atoll.
- 1952 QA-0107HAEU · Database
Historical Archives of the European Union — archival database
The official repository for the historical records of the EU institutions, opened after a 30-year rule, plus private papers of European founders.
- 1979 QA-0045NASA · Study
Skylab is falling: strategies for reentry
A 1979 conference paper on options for controlling the reentry of the abandoned Skylab station, written as solar activity dragged it down faster than planned.
- 1979 QA-0021House · Report
Report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979)
The only official U.S. investigation to conclude that President Kennedy was 'probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy', a finding that rested heavily on acoustic evidence later disputed.
- 1977 QA-0059Senate · Hearing
Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification (1977 hearing)
The joint Senate hearing held after financial records of MKULTRA, the CIA's mind-control research program, turned up despite the agency's 1973 order to destroy them.
- 1977 QA-0027DoD · Report
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, third edition (Glasstone & Dolan)
The standard unclassified U.S. government reference on blast, thermal radiation, fallout and EMP from nuclear detonations, published jointly by DoD and the Energy Research and Development Administration (report TID-28061).
- 1977 QA-0043NASA Ames · Study
Space Settlements: A Design Study (NASA SP-413)
The report of the 1975 NASA Ames–Stanford summer study that designed a rotating space colony for 10,000 people, the 'Stanford torus', complete with agriculture, shielding and economics.
- 1976 QA-0058Senate · Report
Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans
The Church Committee's central finding: decades of FBI, CIA, NSA and IRS spying on Americans for political beliefs, including COINTELPRO, mail opening and watch lists.
- 1947 QA-0019USAF · Collection
Project BLUE BOOK — Unidentified Flying Objects (NARA holdings)
NARA's guide to the Air Force's 1947–1969 UFO investigation files: more than 12,000 sighting reports, most of them explained, plus 701 never identified.
- 1975 QA-0063Senate · Hearing
Huston Plan: Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2
Hearings on the 1970 'Huston Plan', a White House proposal to lift limits on domestic burglary, mail opening and electronic surveillance of anti-war activists.
- 1976 QA-0101ASRS · Database
Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database
Pilots, controllers and mechanics have filed confidential, de-identified safety reports with NASA since 1976, in their own words: near-misses, fatigue, automation confusion.
- 1970 QA-0040NASA · Report
Report of Apollo 13 Review Board
The board's reconstruction of how an oxygen tank exploded on the way to the Moon in April 1970.
- 1969 QA-0148DTIC · Study
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Vol. 1 (Condon Report, DTIC AD0680975)
The University of Colorado study, led by physicist Edward Condon, that concluded further UFO study was unlikely to advance science and led directly to the end of Project Blue Book in December 1969.
- 1967 QA-0038NASA · Report
Report of the Apollo 204 Review Board (Apollo 1 fire)
The investigation of the January 1967 launch-pad fire that killed Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee in a pure-oxygen cabin full of flammable material.
- 1966 QA-0028ORNL · Report
MSRE Design and Operations Report, Part VIII: Operating Procedures
The operating procedures for Oak Ridge's Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment, which ran from 1965 to 1969 (report ORNL-TM-908).
- 1962 QA-0031LLNL · Report
Tory II-C hazards of operation (Project Pluto nuclear ramjet), Part 10
Livermore's hazards analysis for Tory II-C, the ground-test reactor of Project Pluto, a nuclear-powered ramjet missile meant to fly for weeks at low altitude while spewing radiation along its route.
- 1960 QA-0033RAND · Study
Diffusion of nuclear weapons to additional countries: the ‘nth country’ problem (RAND RM-2484)
A 1960 RAND study, done for the Air Force, of how and how fast nuclear weapons would spread beyond the first nuclear powers.
- 1954 QA-0147USAF · Study
Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (1955)
The Battelle Memorial Institute's statistical analysis of more than 3,000 UFO reports for the Air Force, the most rigorous data study of the Blue Book era.
- 1945 QA-0023Truman Library · Collection
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (Truman Library document collection)
Scanned primary sources on the 1945 decision: Truman's diary entries from Potsdam, the Interim Committee minutes, scientists' petitions against using the bomb, and the press release announcing Hiroshima.
- 1960 QA-0024Eisenhower Library · Collection
U-2 Spy Plane Incident (Eisenhower Library online documents)
Declassified memos, cover-story drafts and meeting notes from May 1960, when the Soviets shot down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 and exposed the cover story that it was a NASA weather plane.
- 1961 QA-0025Eisenhower Library · Collection
Farewell Address: drafts and reading copy (Eisenhower Library)
Successive drafts, the reading copy and related correspondence for Eisenhower's January 1961 farewell speech.
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