[{"s":"cia-family-jewels","id":"QA-0001","t":"The “Family Jewels”: CIA internal compilation of questionable activities","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1973,"ry":2007,"dd":"1973-05","rd":"2007-06-25","tags":["domestic surveillance","Church Committee","CIA history","no OCR"],"sum":"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. It fed the Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee, yet the full text stayed secret until 2007. The official scan has no text layer; the National Security Archive's OCR copy is linked as an alternate.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room","url":"https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001451843.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260630065502/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001451843.pdf","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:16.145Z"},{"s":"cia-gateway-process","id":"QA-0002","t":"Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process","a":"United States Army","as":"US Army","y":1983,"ry":2003,"dd":"1983-06-09","rd":"2003-09","tags":["altered states","remote viewing","Monroe Institute","Cold War"],"sum":"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. It tries to explain the method in terms of physics, holograms and consciousness, and shows how seriously parts of the defense establishment took psychic and altered-state research during the Cold War. It sits in CREST alongside the files of the Army and DIA remote-viewing programs.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)","url":"https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261006095144/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:16.145Z"},{"s":"cia-stargate-congressional-action","id":"QA-0003","t":"Senate Appropriations Committee Congressionally Directed Action, STAR GATE","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1995,"ry":2000,"dd":"1995-05-10","rd":"2000-04-04","tags":["remote viewing","STAR GATE","Congress","DIA"],"sum":"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. It traces the effort back to Army-funded work at Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s, months before an outside evaluation led to the program's termination. It is one of about 12,000 STARGATE records in CREST, most indexed by little more than a title.","ty":"Memo","c":"United States","h":"CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)","url":"https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00791r000100040003-1","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250501094558/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00791r000100040003-1","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:16.145Z"},{"s":"cia-pdb-1961-1969","id":"QA-0004","t":"President's Daily Brief, 1961–1969 (Kennedy and Johnson)","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1961,"ry":2015,"dd":"1961-06-17","rd":"2015-09-16","tags":["presidential briefings","Cuban Missile Crisis","Vietnam","intelligence analysis"],"sum":"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. For decades these were among the most closely held documents in government. Read in sequence, they follow the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam and the Six-Day War exactly as the President saw them each morning.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room","url":"https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/presidents-daily-brief-1961-1969","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260927041409/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/presidents-daily-brief-1961-1969","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:16.145Z"},{"s":"cia-nixon-china-collection","id":"QA-0005","t":"The Nixon Collection: CIA support for the 1972 presidential trip to China","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1972,"ry":2022,"dd":"1972-02","rd":"2022-02","tags":["China","Nixon","leadership profiles","atlas"],"sum":"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. The release includes a profile of Lin Biao written for a trip he never saw; he died in a plane crash five months earlier. The atlas was released publicly for the first time in fifty years.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room","url":"https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/nixon-collection","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260927041408/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/nixon-collection","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:16.145Z"},{"s":"fbi-hottel-memo","id":"QA-0006","t":"Guy Hottel memo on ‘flying saucers’ recovered in New Mexico","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":1950,"ry":2011,"dd":"1950-03-22","rd":"2011-04","tags":["UFOs","New Mexico","hearsay","FBI field office"],"sum":"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. The Bureau never investigated it. The FBI later explained that the memo only repeats an unverified claim, yet it became the most-viewed file in the Vault.","ty":"Memo","c":"United States","h":"FBI Vault","url":"https://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260630144809/https://vault.fbi.gov/hottel_guy","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:40.922Z"},{"s":"fbi-ufo-file","id":"QA-0007","t":"FBI ‘UFO’ file (flying disc reports, 1947 onward)","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":1947,"ry":2011,"dd":"1947-07","rd":"2011-04","tags":["UFOs","1947","Army Air Forces","sighting reports"],"sum":"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. It shows the FBI collecting citizen accounts and then pulling back from the work as it came to suspect it was doing the military's legwork. A primary record of how a federal agency handled public panic about unknown aircraft.","ty":"Case file","c":"United States","h":"FBI Vault","url":"https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261003075750/https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:40.922Z"},{"s":"fbi-roswell","id":"QA-0008","t":"Roswell UFO: FBI Dallas teletype of 8 July 1947","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":1947,"ry":2011,"dd":"1947-07-08","rd":"2011-04","tags":["Roswell","UFOs","1947","weather balloon"],"sum":"The FBI's contemporaneous teletype on the Roswell debris, sent the day the base announced it had recovered a 'flying disc'. It relays the military's view that the object looked like a high-altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector, while noting that it was being flown to Wright Field for examination. One of the few records of Roswell that was written as events happened rather than decades later.","ty":"Memo","c":"United States","h":"FBI Vault","url":"https://vault.fbi.gov/Roswell%20UFO","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012050710/https://vault.fbi.gov/Roswell%20UFO","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:40.922Z"},{"s":"fbi-majestic-12","id":"QA-0009","t":"Majestic 12: FBI investigation of the MJ-12 documents","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":1988,"ry":2011,"dd":"1988","rd":"2011-04","tags":["UFOs","hoax","MJ-12","AFOSI"],"sum":"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. The file records the Air Force Office of Special Investigations telling the Bureau that the document was 'completely bogus'. It is the primary-source answer to one of the most persistent UFO hoaxes.","ty":"Case file","c":"United States","h":"FBI Vault","url":"https://vault.fbi.gov/Majestic%2012","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261003075741/https://vault.fbi.gov/Majestic%2012","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:44.393Z"},{"s":"fbi-animal-mutilation","id":"QA-0010","t":"Animal Mutilation: FBI records on 1970s cattle mutilation reports","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":1979,"ry":2011,"dd":"1979","rd":"2011-04","tags":["cattle mutilation","New Mexico","tribal lands","folklore"],"sum":"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. It shows a federal agency weighing folklore, predators and the possibility of real crime. A strange but carefully documented piece of rural American history.","ty":"Case file","c":"United States","h":"FBI Vault","url":"https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261003075747/https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:45.571Z"},{"s":"fbi-einstein","id":"QA-0011","t":"Albert Einstein: FBI surveillance file","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":1932,"ry":2011,"dd":"1932","rd":"2011-04","tags":["Einstein","McCarthyism","surveillance","scientists"],"sum":"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. The Bureau tracked his pacifism, his civil-rights advocacy and his alleged communist ties, and turned up nothing. It is a detailed study of how McCarthy-era anxieties reached even the most famous scientist in the world.","ty":"Case file","c":"United States","h":"FBI Vault","url":"https://vault.fbi.gov/Albert%20Einstein","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260817122758/https://vault.fbi.gov/Albert%20Einstein","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:47.716Z"},{"s":"fbi-tesla","id":"QA-0012","t":"Nikola Tesla: FBI file on the seizure of his papers","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":1943,"ry":2016,"dd":"1943-01","rd":"2016","tags":["Tesla","World War II","death ray","Office of Alien Property"],"sum":"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. Wartime fears that his rumored 'death ray' notes could reach the enemy run through the correspondence. It is the paper trail behind a century of Tesla legends.","ty":"Case file","c":"United States","h":"FBI Vault","url":"https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260925145253/https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:49.996Z"},{"s":"fbi-cointelpro","id":"QA-0013","t":"COINTELPRO: FBI counterintelligence program files","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":1956,"ry":2011,"dd":"1956","rd":"2011-04","tags":["COINTELPRO","civil rights","domestic surveillance","Church Committee"],"sum":"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. The program came to light only after activists burgled an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, in 1971. These are the primary records behind the Church Committee's findings.","ty":"Case file","c":"United States","h":"FBI Vault","url":"https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260910161059/https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:53.644Z"},{"s":"fbi-rosenberg","id":"QA-0014","t":"Rosenberg case: FBI atomic espionage files","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":1950,"ry":2011,"dd":"1950","rd":"2011-04","tags":["atomic espionage","Venona","Rosenbergs","Cold War"],"sum":"The FBI's investigative files on the Soviet atomic espionage ring that led to the 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The case partly rested on intercepted Soviet cables (the Venona project), which stayed secret for decades. Read alongside the NSA's cryptologic histories, the files show how signals intelligence quietly drove a public trial.","ty":"Case file","c":"United States","h":"FBI Vault","url":"https://vault.fbi.gov/rosenberg-case","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260128120545/https://vault.fbi.gov/rosenberg-case/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:54.916Z"},{"s":"nsa-american-cryptology-cold-war","id":"QA-0015","t":"American Cryptology during the Cold War, 1945–1989 (Thomas R. Johnson)","a":"National Security Agency","as":"NSA","y":1995,"ry":2008,"dd":"1995","rd":"2008","tags":["SIGINT","NSA history","Cold War","Gulf of Tonkin"],"sum":"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. It is unusually frank about failures, including warning gaps in Korea and the mishandled intercepts around the Gulf of Tonkin. The PDFs NSA originally posted have moved or disappeared, so this entry points to an Internet Archive copy, with a Wayback snapshot of the original nsa.gov file.","ty":"Official history","c":"United States","h":"Internet Archive (official NSA URL dead)","url":"https://archive.org/details/NSA-American-Cryptology-Cold-War","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://archive.org/details/NSA-American-Cryptology-Cold-War","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:56.141Z"},{"s":"nara-pentagon-papers","id":"QA-0016","t":"Pentagon Papers: full declassified Report of the OSD Vietnam Task Force","a":"National Archives and Records Administration","as":"NARA","y":1969,"ry":2011,"dd":"1969-01","rd":"2011-06-13","tags":["Vietnam","Pentagon Papers","Daniel Ellsberg","secret history"],"sum":"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. The 1971 newspaper excerpts were partial. Here are the complete scanned volumes, including material the press never saw, organized by period.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"National Archives","url":"https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261014004015/https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:57.127Z"},{"s":"nara-jfk-2025-release","id":"QA-0017","t":"JFK Assassination Records — 2025 documents release","a":"National Archives and Records Administration","as":"NARA","y":1963,"ry":2025,"dd":"1963-11","rd":"2025-03-18","tags":["JFK","assassination records","CIA","Mexico City"],"sum":"The March 2025 release of JFK assassination records, issued under an executive order directing that remaining redactions be lifted. Thousands of PDFs were posted in a flat list with record numbers and almost no description. The raw material covers CIA station operations, Mexico City surveillance and Cold War covert programs.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"National Archives","url":"https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261011220536/https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:03:58.896Z"},{"s":"nara-uap-records-collection","id":"QA-0018","t":"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection (NARA)","a":"National Archives and Records Administration","as":"NARA","y":1947,"ry":2024,"dd":"1947","rd":"2024","tags":["UAP","UFOs","NDAA","records collection"],"sum":"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. The page is a guide to what agencies have transferred so far, alongside older holdings such as Project Blue Book. It is the official starting point for UAP research in federal records.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"National Archives","url":"https://www.archives.gov/research/topics/uaps","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261008053951/https://www.archives.gov/research/topics/uaps","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:00.307Z"},{"s":"nara-project-blue-book","id":"QA-0019","t":"Project BLUE BOOK — Unidentified Flying Objects (NARA holdings)","a":"United States Air Force","as":"USAF","y":1947,"ry":1976,"dd":"1947","rd":"1976","tags":["Project Blue Book","UFOs","Air Force","microfilm"],"sum":"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. The records went to NARA in the 1970s and exist mostly on microfilm, with names redacted. This page explains how to reach them and what was withheld.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"National Archives","url":"https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261011154505/https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:04.176Z"},{"s":"nara-iwg-nazi-war-crimes","id":"QA-0020","t":"Nazi War Crimes Interagency Working Group records","a":"National Archives and Records Administration","as":"NARA","y":1945,"ry":2007,"dd":"1945","rd":"2007-03","tags":["Nazi war criminals","CIA","Gehlen Organization","Cold War"],"sum":"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. The working group's reports, among them 'U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis' and 'Hitler's Shadow', summarize what the files reveal. Little-browsed and essential to understanding the early Cold War.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"National Archives","url":"https://www.archives.gov/iwg","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261011152609/https://www.archives.gov/iwg","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:05.526Z"},{"s":"nara-hsca-report","id":"QA-0021","t":"Report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979)","a":"U.S. House of Representatives","as":"House","y":1979,"ry":1979,"dd":"1979-03-29","rd":"1979-03-29","tags":["JFK","MLK","House Select Committee","acoustic evidence"],"sum":"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. NARA hosts the full report as browsable HTML that almost no one reads. It also reexamined the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"National Archives","url":"https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/toc","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250222114441/https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:13:36.081Z"},{"s":"nixon-white-house-tapes","id":"QA-0022","t":"Nixon White House tapes","a":"Richard Nixon Presidential Library (NARA)","as":"Nixon Library","y":1971,"ry":2013,"dd":"1971-02","rd":"2013-08-21","tags":["Nixon","Watergate","audio recordings","Oval Office"],"sum":"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. The tapes are online with subject logs but no full transcripts. Hundreds of hours on foreign policy, the economy and daily governance go essentially unheard.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"Richard Nixon Presidential Library","url":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:08.588Z"},{"s":"truman-decision-atomic-bomb","id":"QA-0023","t":"The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (Truman Library document collection)","a":"Harry S. Truman Presidential Library (NARA)","as":"Truman Library","y":1945,"ry":null,"dd":"1945-07","rd":null,"tags":["atomic bomb","Hiroshima","Potsdam","Truman"],"sum":"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. Each item is presented as a page image with a short description. It is the closest you can get to the paper trail of the decision itself.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"Harry S. Truman Library","url":"https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/decision-to-drop-atomic-bomb","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/online-collections/decision-to-drop-atomic-bomb","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:10.286Z"},{"s":"ike-u2-incident","id":"QA-0024","t":"U-2 Spy Plane Incident (Eisenhower Library online documents)","a":"Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (NARA)","as":"Eisenhower Library","y":1960,"ry":null,"dd":"1960-05","rd":null,"tags":["U-2","Francis Gary Powers","cover story","Soviet Union"],"sum":"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. The papers show the administration putting together, and then abandoning, a public denial in a matter of days. The episode wrecked the Paris summit.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"Dwight D. Eisenhower Library","url":"https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/u-2-spy-plane-incident","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260613055642/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/u-2-spy-plane-incident","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:11.237Z"},{"s":"ike-farewell-address-drafts","id":"QA-0025","t":"Farewell Address: drafts and reading copy (Eisenhower Library)","a":"Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (NARA)","as":"Eisenhower Library","y":1961,"ry":null,"dd":"1961-01-17","rd":null,"tags":["Eisenhower","military-industrial complex","speechwriting","drafts"],"sum":"Successive drafts, the reading copy and related correspondence for Eisenhower's January 1961 farewell speech. Comparing drafts shows how the warning about the 'military-industrial complex' was worked out with his speechwriters over many months. Everyone has heard the line; very few have read the edits that produced it.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"Dwight D. Eisenhower Library","url":"https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/farewell-address","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012073232/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/farewell-address","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:15.389Z"},{"s":"osti-wipp-markers","id":"QA-0026","t":"Expert judgment on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant","a":"Sandia National Laboratories (DOE)","as":"Sandia","y":1993,"ry":1993,"dd":"1993-11-01","rd":"1993-11-01","tags":["nuclear waste","WIPP","long-term warnings","semiotics"],"sum":"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. It proposes landscapes of spikes, menacing earthworks and layered messages, and it is the source of the much-quoted 'This place is not a place of honor'. One of the strangest and most thoughtful documents the federal government has ever published.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10117359","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261008052908/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10117359","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:17.172Z"},{"s":"osti-effects-nuclear-weapons","id":"QA-0027","t":"The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, third edition (Glasstone & Dolan)","a":"Department of Defense","as":"DoD","y":1977,"ry":1977,"dd":"1977-01-01","rd":"1977-01-01","tags":["nuclear weapons effects","fallout","civil defense","EMP"],"sum":"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). Its tables and curves still underpin civil-defense and arms-control analysis. The full text is free on OSTI but rarely found outside specialist circles.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6852629","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260731150458/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6852629","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:21.766Z"},{"s":"osti-msre-operating-procedures","id":"QA-0028","t":"MSRE Design and Operations Report, Part VIII: Operating Procedures","a":"Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE)","as":"ORNL","y":1966,"ry":1966,"dd":"1966-01-01","rd":"1966-01-01","tags":["molten-salt reactor","thorium","Oak Ridge","reactor operations"],"sum":"The operating procedures for Oak Ridge's Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment, which ran from 1965 to 1969 (report ORNL-TM-908). This series is the main body of real operating experience behind today's molten-salt and thorium reactor startups. Engineers still mine these scans for practical details that never made it into journal papers.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4447572","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251230071606/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4447572","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:25.110Z"},{"s":"osti-bravo-fallout-medical","id":"QA-0029","t":"Historical events associated with fallout from Bravo Shot – Operation Castle, and 25 years of medical findings","a":"Brookhaven National Laboratory (DOE)","as":"BNL","y":1997,"ry":1997,"dd":"1997-07-01","rd":"1997-07-01","tags":["Castle Bravo","fallout","Marshall Islands","medical follow-up"],"sum":"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. It reviews a quarter century of medical follow-up on the exposed Marshallese, including thyroid disease. A sobering primary source on the human cost of atmospheric testing.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/543363","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250208172448/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/543363","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:28.007Z"},{"s":"osti-rongerik-exposure","id":"QA-0030","t":"Analysis of radiation exposure: service personnel on Rongerik Atoll, Operation Castle – Shot Bravo","a":"Defense Nuclear Agency","as":"DNA","y":1987,"ry":1988,"dd":"1987-07-09","rd":"1988-09-01","tags":["Castle Bravo","atomic veterans","dose reconstruction","Marshall Islands"],"sum":"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. Analyses like this were later used to decide veterans' compensation claims. The accompanying Marshallese record is in the Brookhaven report.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6841521","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6841521","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:16.145Z"},{"s":"osti-tory-iic-hazards","id":"QA-0031","t":"Tory II-C hazards of operation (Project Pluto nuclear ramjet), Part 10","a":"Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory","as":"LLNL","y":1962,"ry":1962,"dd":"1962-12-28","rd":"1962-12-28","tags":["Project Pluto","nuclear ramjet","Nevada Test Site","cancelled programs"],"sum":"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. The reactor ran at full power in Nevada in 1964 before the program was cancelled. A rare engineering look at one of the Cold War's most alarming weapons concepts.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4352655","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251230053241/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4352655","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:39.538Z"},{"s":"osti-operation-crossroads","id":"QA-0032","t":"Operation Crossroads: atomic bomb tests Able and Baker at Bikini Atoll","a":"Joint Task Force One","as":"JTF-1","y":1946,"ry":1985,"dd":"1946","rd":"1985-05","tags":["Operation Crossroads","Bikini Atoll","nuclear testing","1946"],"sum":"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. The underwater Baker shot contaminated the lagoon so badly that many ships could not be decontaminated, an early lesson in radioactive fallout. The Bikini islanders, relocated for the tests, never returned to stay.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5780819","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251229122256/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5780819","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:43.244Z"},{"s":"osti-rand-nth-country","id":"QA-0033","t":"Diffusion of nuclear weapons to additional countries: the ‘nth country’ problem (RAND RM-2484)","a":"RAND Corporation (for the US Air Force)","as":"RAND","y":1960,"ry":1960,"dd":"1960-02-15","rd":"1960-02-15","tags":["nonproliferation","RAND","nuclear spread","strategy"],"sum":"A 1960 RAND study, done for the Air Force, of how and how fast nuclear weapons would spread beyond the first nuclear powers. It is one of the founding texts of nonproliferation thinking, written before France, China, Israel or India had a bomb. Useful for checking what analysts predicted against what actually happened.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/544438","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260113215823/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/544438","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:44.215Z"},{"s":"osti-project-chariot-remediation","id":"QA-0034","t":"Final 2014 Remedial Action Report, Project Chariot, Cape Thompson, Alaska","a":"DOE Office of Legacy Management","as":"DOE-LM","y":2015,"ry":2015,"dd":"2015-03-01","rd":"2015-03-01","tags":["Project Chariot","Plowshare","Alaska","Iñupiat"],"sum":"Project Chariot was a 1958 plan to blast a harbor out of the Alaskan coast with nuclear explosives. Iñupiat opposition and early environmental science stopped it, but researchers had already buried radioactive tracer material at the site. This report documents the cleanup decades later and links a famous Plowshare fight to its long tail.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1260243","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20251230085102/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1260243","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:46.297Z"},{"s":"osti-gasbuggy-assessment","id":"QA-0035","t":"Gasbuggy Site Assessment and Risk Evaluation","a":"DOE Office of Legacy Management","as":"DOE-LM","y":2011,"ry":2011,"dd":"2011-03-01","rd":"2011-03-01","tags":["Gasbuggy","Plowshare","natural gas","New Mexico"],"sum":"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. This assessment evaluates the radionuclides still underground and the risk to nearby gas drilling. A Cold War experiment that still constrains land use today.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"OSTI.GOV","url":"https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1110214","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250309182611/https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1110214","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:49.542Z"},{"s":"doe-achre-final-report","id":"QA-0036","t":"Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments","a":"Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments","as":"ACHRE","y":1995,"ry":1995,"dd":"1995-10","rd":"1995-10","tags":["human radiation experiments","informed consent","plutonium","research ethics"],"sum":"The presidential committee report on Cold War radiation experiments on people, including plutonium injections into hospital patients without informed consent. It led to a formal apology and recommendations on research ethics. DOE still hosts the complete report on an aging 1990s 'roadmap' site that looks abandoned but works.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"DOE Office of Health, Safety and Security (archived roadmap)","url":"https://ehss.energy.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/report.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://ehss.energy.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/report.html","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:54.320Z"},{"s":"nasa-feynman-appendix-f","id":"QA-0037","t":"Rogers Commission, Appendix F: Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (Richard Feynman)","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":1986,"ry":1986,"dd":"1986-06-06","rd":"1986-06-06","tags":["Challenger","Feynman","risk","engineering culture"],"sum":"Richard Feynman's dissent, attached to the Challenger accident report after he threatened to remove his name. He shows that NASA management put the risk of catastrophic failure at about 1 in 100,000 while its engineers estimated closer to 1 in 100. It ends: 'For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.'","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"NASA History Office","url":"https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v2appf.htm","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917061750/https://www.nasa.gov/history/rogersrep/v2appf.htm","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:58.396Z"},{"s":"nasa-apollo-204-review-board","id":"QA-0038","t":"Report of the Apollo 204 Review Board (Apollo 1 fire)","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":1967,"ry":1967,"dd":"1967-04-05","rd":"1967-04-05","tags":["Apollo 1","spacecraft fire","accident investigation","pure oxygen"],"sum":"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. It names the design and quality-control failures, which led to a redesigned hatch and spacecraft before any Apollo crew flew. NASA's history site hosts the full report with appendices.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"NASA History Office","url":"https://www.nasa.gov/history/Apollo204/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.nasa.gov/history/Apollo204/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:04:59.470Z"},{"s":"nasa-uap-independent-study","id":"QA-0039","t":"NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team — final report","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":2023,"ry":2023,"dd":"2023-09-14","rd":"2023-09-14","tags":["UAP","NASA","scientific method","data quality"],"sum":"NASA's first formal study of UAP, by an outside panel of scientists. It found no evidence of extraterrestrial origin, but argued that the problem is poor data and stigma, and recommended calibrated sensors, citizen-science reporting and a role for NASA. A short, readable baseline for the scientific side of the UAP debate.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"NASA Science Mission Directorate","url":"https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260906104710/https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:05:04.917Z"},{"s":"ntrs-apollo13-review-board","id":"QA-0040","t":"Report of Apollo 13 Review Board","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":1970,"ry":1970,"dd":"1970-06-01","rd":"1970-06-01","tags":["Apollo 13","root cause analysis","oxygen tank","accident investigation"],"sum":"The board's reconstruction of how an oxygen tank exploded on the way to the Moon in April 1970. It traces the cause to a thermostat switch rated for 28 volts, left unchanged when ground power moved to 65 volts, and to a tank damaged long before launch. A model of root-cause analysis that engineers still teach.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"NASA Technical Reports Server","url":"https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19700076776","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260616183537/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19700076776","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:16.145Z"},{"s":"ntrs-warp-field-mechanics","id":"QA-0041","t":"Warp Field Mechanics 101 (Harold White, NASA JSC)","a":"NASA Johnson Space Center","as":"NASA JSC","y":2011,"ry":2011,"dd":"2011-09-30","rd":"2011-09-30","tags":["warp drive","advanced propulsion","Eagleworks","speculative physics"],"sum":"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. It started a decade of headlines and skepticism about NASA's 'Eagleworks' lab. Read the primary text before the press coverage.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"NASA Technical Reports Server","url":"https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20110015936","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261011092721/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20110015936","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:16.145Z"},{"s":"ntrs-hubble-optical-failure","id":"QA-0042","t":"The Hubble Space Telescope Optical Systems Failure Report","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":1990,"ry":1990,"dd":"1990-11-01","rd":"1990-11-01","tags":["Hubble","quality assurance","contractor oversight","optics"],"sum":"The investigation into why the $1.5 billion telescope launched with a primary mirror ground to the wrong shape. It traces the error to a misassembled test instrument, the null corrector, and to warning signs that contractor and NASA overseers dismissed. A short course in how quality assurance fails.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"NASA Technical Reports Server","url":"https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19910003124","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260510110200/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19910003124","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:16.769Z"},{"s":"ntrs-space-settlements","id":"QA-0043","t":"Space Settlements: A Design Study (NASA SP-413)","a":"NASA Ames Research Center","as":"NASA Ames","y":1977,"ry":1977,"dd":"1977-01-01","rd":"1977-01-01","tags":["space colonies","Stanford torus","O'Neill","futurism"],"sum":"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. Its famous paintings outlived the engineering. The engineering is all here, and it is surprisingly rigorous.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"NASA Technical Reports Server","url":"https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19770014162","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260925003519/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19770014162","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:22.191Z"},{"s":"ntrs-nuclear-lunar-logistics","id":"QA-0044","t":"Nuclear Lunar Logistics Study (Marshall Space Flight Center, 1963)","a":"NASA Marshall Space Flight Center","as":"NASA MSFC","y":1963,"ry":2019,"dd":"1963-07-18","rd":"2019-07-12","tags":["nuclear propulsion","NERVA","lunar base","Apollo era"],"sum":"A 1963 Marshall Space Flight Center briefing on using nuclear rocket stages to supply a sustained presence on the Moon. It dates from the period when NERVA-class engines were expected to follow Saturn V. It shows the nuclear-powered lunar program NASA planned and then dropped.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"NASA Technical Reports Server","url":"https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760073676","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250712123217/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760073676","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:24.717Z"},{"s":"ntrs-skylab-is-falling","id":"QA-0045","t":"Skylab is falling: strategies for reentry","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":1979,"ry":1979,"dd":"1979-06-01","rd":"1979-06-01","tags":["Skylab","orbital debris","reentry","space station"],"sum":"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. Skylab came down in July 1979, scattering debris across Western Australia. The paper shows the engineering choices made in the final weeks.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"NASA Technical Reports Server","url":"https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19790063233","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19790063233","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:05:24.956Z"},{"s":"ntrs-space-shuttle-decision","id":"QA-0046","t":"The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle (SP-4221)","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":1999,"ry":1999,"dd":"1999-07-01","rd":"1999-08-13","tags":["Space Shuttle","procurement","OMB","design compromise"],"sum":"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. It explains why the vehicle ended up more expensive and riskier than promised. Essential background for the Challenger and Columbia reports.","ty":"Official history","c":"United States","h":"NASA Technical Reports Server","url":"https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19990056590","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260521111834/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19990056590","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:26.559Z"},{"s":"ntrs-caib-volume-2","id":"QA-0047","t":"Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report, Volume II (technical appendices)","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":2003,"ry":2003,"dd":"2003-10-01","rd":"2003-11-17","tags":["Columbia","accident investigation","foam strike","organizational culture"],"sum":"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. Volume I is quoted everywhere; the supporting evidence lives here. Read with Feynman's Challenger appendix for the pattern.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"NASA Technical Reports Server","url":"https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20030107225","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250725000200/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20030107225","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:28.704Z"},{"s":"frus-1971-south-asia-crisis","id":"QA-0048","t":"Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI: South Asia Crisis, 1971","a":"Department of State","as":"State","y":1971,"ry":2005,"dd":"1971","rd":"2005","tags":["Bangladesh 1971","India","Pakistan","Nixon-Kissinger"],"sum":"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. Every document is full-text searchable. It is the U.S. side of a war that remade South Asia.","ty":"Official history","c":"United States","h":"Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v11","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260821142358/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v11","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:05:38.425Z"},{"s":"nsarchive-northwoods","id":"QA-0049","t":"Operation Northwoods: Joint Chiefs memo ‘Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba’","a":"Joint Chiefs of Staff","as":"JCS","y":1962,"ry":1997,"dd":"1962-03-13","rd":"1997","tags":["Cuba","false flag","Joint Chiefs","Cold War"],"sum":"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. Kennedy's civilian leadership rejected it. Declassified by the Assassination Records Review Board in 1997, it is the archetypal document of the Cold War national security state.","ty":"Memo","c":"United States","h":"National Security Archive (GWU)","url":"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012221217/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:05:50.429Z"},{"s":"nsarchive-gulf-of-tonkin","id":"QA-0050","t":"The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later","a":"National Security Agency","as":"NSA","y":1964,"ry":2004,"dd":"1964-08-04","rd":"2004-08-04","tags":["Gulf of Tonkin","SIGINT","Vietnam","intelligence failure"],"sum":"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. Signals intelligence and on-scene reports were misread or selectively used. A core case study in intelligence and the road to war.","ty":"Briefing book","c":"United States","h":"National Security Archive (GWU)","url":"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260921154305/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:05:54.939Z"},{"s":"nsarchive-u2-area-51","id":"QA-0051","t":"The Secret History of the U-2 — and Area 51","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1992,"ry":2013,"dd":"1992","rd":"2013-08-15","tags":["Area 51","U-2","OXCART","overhead reconnaissance"],"sum":"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. It contained the U.S. government's first official acknowledgment of 'Area 51' and its origins as a test site. A primary source for the real history behind a mythic place.","ty":"Briefing book","c":"United States","h":"National Security Archive (GWU)","url":"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261008042317/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:05:55.902Z"},{"s":"nsarchive-sac-target-list","id":"QA-0052","t":"Strategic Air Command declassifies nuclear target list from the 1950s","a":"Strategic Air Command (USAF)","as":"SAC","y":1956,"ry":2015,"dd":"1956-06","rd":"2015-12-22","tags":["nuclear targeting","SAC","Soviet Union","war planning"],"sum":"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. It makes nuclear planning concrete in a way few documents do.","ty":"Briefing book","c":"United States","h":"National Security Archive (GWU)","url":"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear-Target-List-Declassified-First-Ever/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260919180815/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb538-Cold-War-Nuclear-Target-List-Declassified-First-Ever/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:05:59.379Z"},{"s":"nsarchive-iran-1953-coup","id":"QA-0053","t":"CIA confirms role in 1953 Iran coup","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1953,"ry":2013,"dd":"1953-08","rd":"2013-08-19","tags":["Iran","Mosaddegh","covert action","TPAJAX"],"sum":"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. They are the clearest formal U.S. acknowledgment of an event that still shapes U.S.–Iran relations. Pages from the history remain redacted.","ty":"Briefing book","c":"United States","h":"National Security Archive (GWU)","url":"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013065503/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:05:59.432Z"},{"s":"nsarchive-nth-country-experiment","id":"QA-0054","t":"The 1960s ‘Nth Country Experiment’ (Lawrence Livermore)","a":"Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory","as":"LLNL","y":1967,"ry":2003,"dd":"1967-03","rd":"2003-07-01","tags":["nonproliferation","weapon design","Livermore","open-source knowledge"],"sum":"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. They produced a credible implosion design in about two and a half years. The declassified summary is a quiet landmark in proliferation risk assessment.","ty":"Briefing book","c":"United States","h":"National Security Archive (GWU)","url":"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20030701/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260826013645/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/news/20030701/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:03.662Z"},{"s":"nsarchive-us-intel-indian-bomb","id":"QA-0055","t":"U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1974,"ry":2006,"dd":"1974-05","rd":"2006-04","tags":["India","nuclear program","Pokhran","intelligence estimates"],"sum":"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. It shows a long run of warnings mixed with misjudgment. Important context for South Asian nuclear history.","ty":"Briefing book","c":"United States","h":"National Security Archive (GWU)","url":"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260824055555/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:05.317Z"},{"s":"nsarchive-tilt-1971","id":"QA-0056","t":"The Tilt: The U.S. and the South Asian Crisis of 1971","a":"Department of State","as":"State","y":1971,"ry":2002,"dd":"1971-04-06","rd":"2002","tags":["Bangladesh 1971","Blood Telegram","dissent channel","Bay of Bengal"],"sum":"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. Also White House transcripts and the deployment of a carrier task force to the Bay of Bengal. Pairs with FRUS Volume XI.","ty":"Briefing book","c":"United States","h":"National Security Archive (GWU)","url":"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB79/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260930004903/https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB79/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:06.246Z"},{"s":"nsarchive-indonesia-1965","id":"QA-0057","t":"U.S. Embassy tracked Indonesia mass murder, 1965","a":"Department of State","as":"State","y":1965,"ry":2017,"dd":"1965-10","rd":"2017-10-17","tags":["Indonesia","mass atrocity","1965","embassy cables"],"sum":"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. Released through a declassification project with the State Department. One of the least-known mass atrocities of the Cold War.","ty":"Briefing book","c":"United States","h":"National Security Archive (GWU)","url":"https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/indonesia/2017-10-17/indonesia-mass-murder-1965-us-embassy-files","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260913200115/https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/indonesia/2017-10-17/indonesia-mass-murder-1965-us-embassy-files","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:08.576Z"},{"s":"ssci-church-book-ii","id":"QA-0058","t":"Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans","a":"United States Senate","as":"Senate","y":1976,"ry":1976,"dd":"1976-04-26","rd":"1976-04-26","tags":["Church Committee","domestic surveillance","FISA origins","oversight"],"sum":"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. It led to the FISA court and the permanent intelligence committees. The URL quietly moved when the Senate site was rebuilt in 2024; the old path now redirects.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Senate Intelligence Committee","url":"https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-94755-ii.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260929125809/https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-94755-ii.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:09.922Z"},{"s":"ssci-mkultra-1977-hearing","id":"QA-0059","t":"Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification (1977 hearing)","a":"United States Senate","as":"Senate","y":1977,"ry":1977,"dd":"1977-08-03","rd":"1977-08-03","tags":["MKULTRA","LSD","human experimentation","CIA"],"sum":"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. It documents drug testing on unwitting subjects and research at universities and prisons. The hearing transcript is the official primary source; most of what circulates online is summary.","ty":"Hearing","c":"United States","h":"Senate Intelligence Committee","url":"https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-hearings-95mkultra.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261011224443/https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-hearings-95mkultra.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:11.613Z"},{"s":"govinfo-ssci-torture-report","id":"QA-0060","t":"Committee Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program (S. Rept. 113-288)","a":"Senate Select Committee on Intelligence","as":"SSCI","y":2014,"ry":2014,"dd":"2014-12-09","rd":"2014-12-09","tags":["torture","CIA","post-9/11","Senate oversight"],"sum":"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. It concluded the techniques were brutal and ineffective and that CIA misled policymakers. The full 6,700-page report remains classified; this official edition is the authoritative public text.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"GovInfo (GPO)","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CRPT-113srpt288","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CRPT-113srpt288","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:13.440Z"},{"s":"govinfo-fcic-report","id":"QA-0061","t":"The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report (FCIC, 2011)","a":"Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission","as":"FCIC","y":2011,"ry":2011,"dd":"2011-01","rd":"2011-01","tags":["financial crisis","2008","regulation","Wall Street"],"sum":"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. It includes dissenting views from commissioners who disagreed. The commission's interview and document archive is far less known than the report.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"GovInfo (GPO)","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-FCIC","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261008093701/https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-FCIC","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:15.131Z"},{"s":"ia-iran-contra-report","id":"QA-0062","t":"Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair (1987)","a":"United States Congress","as":"Congress","y":1987,"ry":1987,"dd":"1987-11","rd":"1987-11","tags":["Iran-Contra","Reagan","Nicaragua","covert action"],"sum":"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. It includes both majority findings and the minority report. We could not find an official digitized edition, so this entry links a library-scanned copy.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Internet Archive (library-digitized copy)","url":"https://archive.org/details/reportofcongress87unit","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://archive.org/details/reportofcongress87unit","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:20.920Z"},{"s":"ia-church-huston-plan-hearings","id":"QA-0063","t":"Huston Plan: Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2","a":"United States Senate","as":"Senate","y":1975,"ry":1976,"dd":"1975-09","rd":"1976","tags":["Huston Plan","Nixon","domestic surveillance","Church Committee"],"sum":"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. Nixon approved it and then rescinded it within days after J. Edgar Hoover objected. The testimony shows how close the U.S. came to formally authorizing illegal domestic intelligence.","ty":"Hearing","c":"United States","h":"Internet Archive (library-digitized copy)","url":"https://archive.org/details/Church-Committee-Hearings-Volume2-Huston-Plan","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://archive.org/details/Church-Committee-Hearings-Volume2-Huston-Plan","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:25.012Z"},{"s":"gao-roswell-records","id":"QA-0064","t":"Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico (GAO/NSIAD-95-187)","a":"Government Accountability Office","as":"GAO","y":1995,"ry":1995,"dd":"1995-07-28","rd":"1995-07-28","tags":["Roswell","UFOs","records management","congressional request"],"sum":"Congress's auditors were asked to find every government record on Roswell. They found that some Roswell Army Air Field administrative and outgoing-message records from the period had been destroyed without proper authority. The search itself is the story: a 26-page audit of a legend, with a full PDF on GAO's site.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"GAO","url":"https://www.gao.gov/products/nsiad-95-187","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260927004818/https://www.gao.gov/products/nsiad-95-187","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:25.133Z"},{"s":"gao-healthcare-gov","id":"QA-0065","t":"Healthcare.gov: CMS Has Taken Steps to Address Problems, but Needs to Further Implement Systems Development Best Practices (GAO-15-238)","a":"Government Accountability Office","as":"GAO","y":2015,"ry":2015,"dd":"2015-03-04","rd":"2015-03-04","tags":["Healthcare.gov","IT procurement","CMS","project management"],"sum":"GAO's postmortem of the 2013 Healthcare.gov launch: inadequate capacity planning, uncorrected software errors, incomplete testing and an unreliable schedule. HHS and OMB oversight also fell short. A plain-English textbook case of government IT failure.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"GAO","url":"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-15-238","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260123012643/https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-15-238","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:26.856Z"},{"s":"oig-fbi-trilogy-vcf","id":"QA-0066","t":"The FBI's Management of the Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Project (Audit 05-07)","a":"Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General","as":"DOJ OIG","y":2005,"ry":2005,"dd":"2005-02","rd":"2005-02","tags":["Virtual Case File","FBI","IT procurement","failed programs"],"sum":"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. It catalogs shifting requirements, weak contract management and missing technical leadership. A canonical failed-procurement document.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"DOJ Office of the Inspector General","url":"https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/FBI/a0507/final.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260817191035/https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/FBI/a0507/final.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:28.485Z"},{"s":"oig-fast-and-furious","id":"QA-0067","t":"A Review of ATF's Operation Fast and Furious and Related Matters","a":"Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General","as":"DOJ OIG","y":2012,"ry":2012,"dd":"2012-09","rd":"2012-09","tags":["Fast and Furious","ATF","gun trafficking","Mexico"],"sum":"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. It found serious failures of judgment from field to headquarters. Far more detailed than the congressional fights it fed.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"DOJ Office of the Inspector General","url":"https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/2012/s1209.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/2012/s1209.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:30.774Z"},{"s":"oig-nsl-2007","id":"QA-0068","t":"A Review of the FBI's Use of National Security Letters (2007)","a":"Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General","as":"DOJ OIG","y":2007,"ry":2007,"dd":"2007-03","rd":"2007-03","tags":["National Security Letters","Patriot Act","FBI","surveillance"],"sum":"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. It found widespread misuse, underreporting to Congress and 'exigent letters' with no legal basis. A foundational document for the post-9/11 surveillance debate.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"DOJ Office of the Inspector General","url":"https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/s0703b/final.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260628032215/https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/s0703b/final.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:34.278Z"},{"s":"oig-presidents-surveillance-program","id":"QA-0069","t":"Unclassified Report on the President's Surveillance Program (2009)","a":"Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General","as":"DOJ OIG","y":2009,"ry":2009,"dd":"2009-07-10","rd":"2009-07-10","tags":["warrantless surveillance","Stellar Wind","NSA","post-9/11"],"sum":"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. It questions how much the program contributed to counterterrorism. A key unclassified window into 'Stellar Wind' four years before Snowden.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"DOJ Office of the Inspector General","url":"https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/s0907.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/s0907.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:36.482Z"},{"s":"oig-fisa-crossfire-hurricane","id":"QA-0070","t":"Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation","a":"Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General","as":"DOJ OIG","y":2019,"ry":2019,"dd":"2019-12-09","rd":"2019-12-09","tags":["FISA","FBI","Crossfire Hurricane","surveillance"],"sum":"The Inspector General found the investigation properly opened, but identified 17 significant errors or omissions in the FISA surveillance applications targeting Carter Page. The report reads as a detailed look at how secret-court warrants are actually assembled. Most coverage quoted only its partisan-relevant conclusions.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"DOJ Office of the Inspector General","url":"https://oig.justice.gov/reports/review-four-fisa-applications-and-other-aspects-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://oig.justice.gov/reports/review-four-fisa-applications-and-other-aspects-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:37.530Z"},{"s":"oig-fbi-nassar","id":"QA-0071","t":"Investigation and Review of the FBI's Handling of Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Former USA Gymnastics Physician Lawrence Gerard Nassar","a":"Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General","as":"DOJ OIG","y":2021,"ry":2021,"dd":"2021-07-14","rd":"2021-07-14","tags":["FBI","Nassar","institutional failure","sexual abuse"],"sum":"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. The report led to congressional testimony by gymnasts and to agent firings. A record of how institutional inertia compounds harm.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"DOJ Office of the Inspector General","url":"https://oig.justice.gov/reports/investigation-and-review-federal-bureau-investigations-handling-allegations-sexual-abuse","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260712152723/https://oig.justice.gov/reports/investigation-and-review-federal-bureau-investigations-handling-allegations-sexual-abuse","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:39.141Z"},{"s":"epa-oig-flint","id":"QA-0072","t":"Management Weaknesses Delayed Response to Flint Water Crisis (EPA OIG 18-P-0221)","a":"EPA Office of Inspector General","as":"EPA OIG","y":2018,"ry":2018,"dd":"2018-07-19","rd":"2018-07-19","tags":["Flint","lead","drinking water","regulatory failure"],"sum":"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. It describes confusion over federal and state roles while lead levels rose. A precise accounting of a regulatory failure.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"EPA Office of Inspector General","url":"https://www.epa.gov/office-inspector-general/report-management-weaknesses-delayed-response-flint-water-crisis","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261007161311/https://www.epa.gov/office-inspector-general/report-management-weaknesses-delayed-response-flint-water-crisis","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:40.649Z"},{"s":"va-oig-phoenix","id":"QA-0073","t":"Review of Alleged Patient Deaths, Patient Wait Times, and Scheduling Practices at the Phoenix VA Health Care System","a":"VA Office of Inspector General","as":"VA OIG","y":2014,"ry":2014,"dd":"2014-08-26","rd":"2014-08-26","tags":["Veterans Affairs","wait lists","Phoenix","health care"],"sum":"The Inspector General's investigation into secret waiting lists at the Phoenix VA, which hid how long veterans waited for care. It confirmed systemic scheduling manipulation and reviewed dozens of patient deaths. The scandal led to the Secretary's resignation and the Veterans Choice Act.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"VA Office of Inspector General","url":"https://www.vaoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2014-08/VAOIG-14-02603-267.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260905185528/https://www.vaoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2014-08/VAOIG-14-02603-267.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:46.407Z"},{"s":"tigta-irs-tax-exempt-2013","id":"QA-0074","t":"Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review (TIGTA 2013-10-053)","a":"Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration","as":"TIGTA","y":2013,"ry":2013,"dd":"2013-05-14","rd":"2013-05-14","tags":["IRS","tax-exempt status","political targeting","audit"],"sum":"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. It set off years of investigations. The audit is precise about what happened and what it could not determine.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration","url":"https://www.tigta.gov/reports/audit/inappropriate-criteria-were-used-identify-tax-exempt-applications-review","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250418201458/https://www.tigta.gov/reports/audit/inappropriate-criteria-were-used-identify-tax-exempt-applications-review","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:47.441Z"},{"s":"sigar-what-we-need-to-learn","id":"QA-0075","t":"What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR-21-46-LL)","a":"Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction","as":"SIGAR","y":2021,"ry":2021,"dd":"2021-08","rd":"2021-08","tags":["Afghanistan","reconstruction","lessons learned","dead link"],"sum":"SIGAR's final lessons-learned report, published as Kabul fell. It concludes that the U.S. government repeatedly lacked a coherent strategy, underestimated the time required, and spent $145 billion on reconstruction it could not sustain. sigar.mil no longer resolves, so this entry links a Wayback Machine snapshot from December 2024.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Internet Archive Wayback Machine (official domain offline)","url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20241217125112/https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-21-46-LL.pdf","archive":"http://web.archive.org/web/20241217125112/https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-21-46-LL.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:48.766Z"},{"s":"ia-sigir-hard-lessons","id":"QA-0076","t":"Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience (SIGIR, 2009)","a":"Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction","as":"SIGIR","y":2009,"ry":2009,"dd":"2009-02","rd":"2009-02","tags":["Iraq","reconstruction","waste","dead link"],"sum":"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. It draws on hundreds of interviews and audits. SIGIR closed in 2013 and its website went with it; DTIC also holds a copy (ADA493696).","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Internet Archive (official site offline)","url":"https://archive.org/details/HardLessonsTheIraqReconstructionExperience","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://archive.org/details/HardLessonsTheIraqReconstructionExperience","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:49.498Z"},{"s":"odni-uap-preliminary-assessment","id":"QA-0077","t":"Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (ODNI, 2021)","a":"Office of the Director of National Intelligence","as":"ODNI","y":2021,"ry":2021,"dd":"2021-06-25","rd":"2021-06-25","tags":["UAP","ODNI","Congress","flight safety"],"sum":"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. Note the misspelled 'Prelimary' in the official file name. It began the modern era of official UAP reporting.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"ODNI (archive.dni.gov)","url":"https://archive.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://archive.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:49.763Z"},{"s":"ca-oag-phoenix-pay","id":"QA-0078","t":"Building and Implementing the Phoenix Pay System (Auditor General of Canada, Spring 2018, Report 1)","a":"Office of the Auditor General of Canada","as":"OAG Canada","y":2018,"ry":2018,"dd":"2018-05","rd":"2018-05","tags":["Phoenix pay system","Canada","IT procurement","payroll"],"sum":"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. A year and a half after launch, more than 150,000 public servants had outstanding pay requests. A world-class procurement disaster in plain language.","ty":"Report","c":"Canada","h":"Government of Canada Publications","url":"https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.855364/publication.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240813220502/https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.855364/publication.html","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:50.854Z"},{"s":"uk-nao-npfit","id":"QA-0079","t":"The National Programme for IT in the NHS: an update on the delivery of detailed care records systems (NAO, 2011)","a":"National Audit Office (UK)","as":"NAO","y":2011,"ry":2011,"dd":"2011-05-18","rd":"2011-05-18","tags":["NHS","IT procurement","United Kingdom","failed programs"],"sum":"The UK auditor's verdict on the core of the NHS National Programme for IT, among the most expensive civilian IT failures anywhere. It found that the detailed care records systems had fallen far behind and that the remaining spend was unlikely to deliver value. The programme was dismantled months later.","ty":"Report","c":"United Kingdom","h":"National Audit Office (UK)","url":"https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-national-programme-for-it-in-the-nhs-an-update-on-the-delivery-of-detailed-care-records-systems/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260902115750/https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-national-programme-for-it-in-the-nhs-an-update-on-the-delivery-of-detailed-care-records-systems/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:51.250Z"},{"s":"au-robodebt-royal-commission","id":"QA-0080","t":"Report of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (2023)","a":"Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme","as":"Robodebt RC","y":2023,"ry":2023,"dd":"2023-07-07","rd":"2023-07-07","tags":["Robodebt","automated decision-making","welfare","Australia"],"sum":"Australia's Royal Commission into an automated welfare-debt scheme that used income averaging to raise unlawful debts against hundreds of thousands of people. It called the scheme a 'crude and cruel mechanism' and referred individuals for possible action, with a sealed chapter. A defining document on algorithmic government.","ty":"Report","c":"Australia","h":"Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme","url":"https://robodebt.royalcommission.gov.au/publications/report","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260925104725/https://robodebt.royalcommission.gov.au/publications/report","status":"unreachable","checked":"2026-10-15T10:15:02.717Z"},{"s":"fr-cia-privacy-act-sorn-2026","id":"QA-0081","t":"Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records (Central Intelligence Agency, July 2026)","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":2026,"ry":2026,"dd":"2026-07-01","rd":"2026-07-01","tags":["Privacy Act","CIA","systems of records","personal data"],"sum":"A CIA Privacy Act notice. Notices like this are legally required descriptions of the categories of personal information an agency keeps and the 'routine uses' that allow sharing it. Few people read them, but together they are the only official public map of what records an intelligence agency holds on individuals. Compare with the CIA's earlier notices in 2025 and January 2026.","ty":"Regulation","c":"United States","h":"Federal Register","url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/01/2026-13283/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/01/2026-13283/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:58.659Z"},{"s":"fr-eo-14176-jfk-rfk-mlk","id":"QA-0082","t":"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.","a":"Executive Office of the President","as":"White House","y":2025,"ry":2025,"dd":"2025-01-23","rd":"2025-01-31","tags":["JFK","RFK","MLK","declassification"],"sum":"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. It led to the March 2025 JFK release at NARA. The legal text explains what was and was not required.","ty":"Executive order","c":"United States","h":"Federal Register","url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/31/2025-02116/declassification-of-records-concerning-the-assassinations-of-president-john-f-kennedy-senator-robert","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260806235408/https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/31/2025-02116/declassification-of-records-concerning-the-assassinations-of-president-john-f-kennedy-senator-robert","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:06:59.848Z"},{"s":"fr-havana-act-commerce-2026","id":"QA-0083","t":"Amending the Department of Commerce's Regulations Implementing the HAVANA Act","a":"Department of Commerce","as":"Commerce","y":2026,"ry":2026,"dd":"2026-05-04","rd":"2026-05-04","tags":["Havana Syndrome","anomalous health incidents","compensation","HAVANA Act"],"sum":"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. Agency rules like this show how the government operationalizes a contested phenomenon: eligibility, evidence and payments. The rulemaking record is more concrete than the public debate.","ty":"Regulation","c":"United States","h":"Federal Register","url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/04/2026-08622/amending-the-department-of-commerces-regulations-implementing-the-havana-act","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260508012734/https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/04/2026-08622/amending-the-department-of-commerces-regulations-implementing-the-havana-act","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:03.633Z"},{"s":"sec-oig-madoff","id":"QA-0084","t":"Investigation of Failure of the SEC to Uncover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi Scheme (OIG-509, public version)","a":"SEC Office of Inspector General","as":"SEC OIG","y":2009,"ry":2009,"dd":"2009-08-31","rd":"2009-09-02","tags":["Madoff","Ponzi scheme","SEC","regulatory failure"],"sum":"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. The report runs to more than 450 pages, with testimony excerpts. One of the most damning regulatory self-examinations ever published.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"SEC","url":"https://www.sec.gov/files/oig-509.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260924080805/https://www.sec.gov/files/oig-509.pdf","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:07.139Z"},{"s":"fec-ao-2010-11-commonsense-ten","id":"QA-0085","t":"FEC Advisory Opinion 2010-11 (Commonsense Ten)","a":"Federal Election Commission","as":"FEC","y":2010,"ry":2010,"dd":"2010-07-22","rd":"2010-07-22","tags":["super PACs","campaign finance","Citizens United","FEC"],"sum":"The FEC opinion, following Citizens United and SpeechNow.org, that let a political committee making only independent expenditures raise unlimited contributions. It is the administrative birth certificate of the 'super PAC'. The opinion, request and comments are all in the file.","ty":"Legal opinion","c":"United States","h":"FEC","url":"https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2010-11/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261014111500/https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2010-11/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:08.122Z"},{"s":"uspto-navy-inertial-mass-reduction","id":"QA-0086","t":"U.S. Patent 10,144,532: Craft using an inertial mass reduction device (U.S. Navy)","a":"United States Patent and Trademark Office","as":"USPTO","y":2016,"ry":2018,"dd":"2016-04-28","rd":"2018-12-04","tags":["patents","U.S. Navy","exotic propulsion","UAP"],"sum":"A patent assigned to the Secretary of the Navy for a craft that would 'polarize the vacuum' to reduce its inertial mass, invented by Navy engineer Salvatore Cezar Pais. Internal records later obtained by journalists showed examiners were skeptical until a Navy official vouched for it. A strange government document that connects patent law, propulsion speculation and the UAP debate.","ty":"Patent","c":"United States","h":"USPTO Patent Public Search","url":"https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/10144532","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260929212646/https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/10144532","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:10.262Z"},{"s":"doj-ferguson-report","id":"QA-0087","t":"Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (DOJ Civil Rights Division, 2015)","a":"Department of Justice","as":"DOJ","y":2015,"ry":2015,"dd":"2015-03-04","rd":"2015-03-04","tags":["Ferguson","policing","civil rights","municipal fines"],"sum":"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. It includes the city officials' own emails. A model of how a pattern-or-practice investigation is documented.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Justice.gov","url":"https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261011165032/https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:11.310Z"},{"s":"doj-olc-sitting-president-indictment","id":"QA-0088","t":"A Sitting President's Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution (OLC, 2000)","a":"Department of Justice","as":"DOJ","y":2000,"ry":2000,"dd":"2000-10-16","rd":"2000-10-16","tags":["presidential immunity","OLC","constitutional law","executive power"],"sum":"The Office of Legal Counsel opinion reaffirming that a sitting president cannot be indicted or prosecuted. It has never been tested in court, yet it shaped the Mueller investigation and later debates. Most people know its conclusion; few have read its reasoning.","ty":"Legal opinion","c":"United States","h":"Justice.gov (Office of Legal Counsel)","url":"https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/sitting-president%E2%80%99s-amenability-indictment-and-criminal-prosecution","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260916102810/https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/sitting-president%E2%80%99s-amenability-indictment-and-criminal-prosecution","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:14.098Z"},{"s":"doj-us-v-microsoft-findings","id":"QA-0089","t":"U.S. v. 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Read them next to the Google search docket for the 2020s parallel.","ty":"Court filing","c":"United States","h":"Justice.gov (Antitrust Division)","url":"https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-fact","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012054119/https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-fact","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:16.566Z"},{"s":"doj-amerithrax-summary","id":"QA-0090","t":"Amerithrax Investigative Summary (2010)","a":"Department of Justice","as":"DOJ","y":2010,"ry":2010,"dd":"2010-02-19","rd":"2010-02-19","tags":["anthrax letters","Bruce Ivins","bioterrorism","FBI"],"sum":"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. It sets out the genetic evidence linking the spores to his flask. Later scientific reviews questioned parts of the science, which makes the original document essential reading.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Justice.gov (archived)","url":"https://www.justice.gov/archive/amerithrax/docs/amx-investigative-summary.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260924085606/https://www.justice.gov/archive/amerithrax/docs/amx-investigative-summary.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:17.449Z"},{"s":"cl-us-v-google-search","id":"QA-0091","t":"United States v. Google LLC, 1:20-cv-03010 (search monopoly docket)","a":"U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia","as":"D.D.C.","y":2020,"ry":2020,"dd":"2020-10-20","rd":"2020-10-20","tags":["antitrust","Google","search","PACER alternative"],"sum":"The full docket of the government's search antitrust case, in which Judge Amit Mehta ruled in 2024 that Google unlawfully maintained a monopoly. RECAP makes trial exhibits, internal Google emails and remedy filings free instead of costing PACER fees. The exhibits are the buried treasure.","ty":"Court docket","c":"United States","h":"CourtListener (RECAP Archive)","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/united-states-v-google-llc/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250304105651/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/united-states-v-google-llc/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:17.587Z"},{"s":"cl-hepting-v-att","id":"QA-0092","t":"Hepting v. AT&T Corporation, No. 06-17132 (9th Cir.)","a":"U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit","as":"9th Cir.","y":2006,"ry":2006,"dd":"2006-11-08","rd":"2006-11-08","tags":["NSA","warrantless surveillance","AT&T","Room 641A"],"sum":"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. Congress then granted telecoms retroactive immunity in 2008. The filings preserve a whistleblower-driven record of bulk surveillance years before Snowden.","ty":"Court docket","c":"United States","h":"CourtListener (RECAP Archive)","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/2910140/hepting-v-att-corporation/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/2910140/hepting-v-att-corporation/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:17.900Z"},{"s":"cl-jewel-v-nsa","id":"QA-0093","t":"Jewel v. National Security Agency, 4:08-cv-04373 (N.D. Cal.)","a":"U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California","as":"N.D. Cal.","y":2008,"ry":2008,"dd":"2008-09-18","rd":"2008-09-18","tags":["NSA","state secrets","bulk surveillance","Fourth Amendment"],"sum":"A 13-year challenge to NSA dragnet surveillance by AT&T customers, which ended when courts accepted the government's state-secrets defense. The docket includes declassified government declarations and whistleblower affidavits. A complete record of how courts handled bulk surveillance.","ty":"Court docket","c":"United States","h":"CourtListener (RECAP Archive)","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4175713/jewel-v-national-security-agency/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260130013139/https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4175713/jewel-v-national-security-agency/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:19.772Z"},{"s":"cl-thaler-v-perlmutter","id":"QA-0094","t":"Thaler v. Perlmutter, 1:22-cv-01564 (D.D.C.) — copyright for AI-generated art","a":"U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia","as":"D.D.C.","y":2022,"ry":2022,"dd":"2022-06-02","rd":"2022-06-02","tags":["copyright","artificial intelligence","authorship","Copyright Office"],"sum":"The case in which the Copyright Office refused to register an image created autonomously by Stephen Thaler's AI system. The court upheld the refusal, holding that human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright. 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Downloadable and almost unknown outside aviation safety.","ty":"Dataset","c":"United States","h":"FAA","url":"https://wildlife.faa.gov/home","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260917220931/https://wildlife.faa.gov/home","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:27.777Z"},{"s":"faa-drone-sightings","id":"QA-0098","t":"Drone Sightings Near Airports (FAA UAS sightings reports)","a":"Federal Aviation Administration","as":"FAA","y":2014,"ry":2015,"dd":"2014","rd":"2015","tags":["drones","UAS","aviation safety","UAP"],"sum":"Quarterly spreadsheets of pilot and controller reports of drones near airports since 2014, as free text. The records include the 'mystery drone' waves later debated in Congress. A raw, unglamorous dataset useful for checking claims about drone and UAP sightings.","ty":"Dataset","c":"United States","h":"FAA","url":"https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/public_records/uas_sightings_report","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261011044656/https://www.faa.gov/uas/resources/public_records/uas_sightings_report","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:28.853Z"},{"s":"nrc-event-notification-reports","id":"QA-0099","t":"NRC Event Notification Reports","a":"NRC Headquarters Operations Center","as":"NRC Ops","y":1999,"ry":1999,"dd":"1999","rd":"1999","tags":["nuclear safety","NRC","incident reports","radioactive sources"],"sum":"Daily reports of incidents that nuclear licensees must notify regulators about: reactor scrams, lost radioactive sources, security events, medical overdoses. Each is a terse primary account written within hours. Few people outside the industry know these are published every day.","ty":"Dataset","c":"United States","h":"Nuclear Regulatory Commission","url":"https://www.nrc.gov/documents-reports/document-collections/events-reports-associated-with/event-notification-reports","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261004002356/https://www.nrc.gov/documents-reports/document-collections/events-reports-associated-with/event-notification-reports","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:30.011Z"},{"s":"osha-severe-injury-reports","id":"QA-0100","t":"OSHA Severe Injury Reports","a":"Occupational Safety and Health Administration","as":"OSHA","y":2015,"ry":2015,"dd":"2015-01","rd":"2015","tags":["workplace safety","OSHA","injuries","employers"],"sum":"Since 2015 employers in federal OSHA states must report any amputation, eye loss or work-related hospitalization within 24 hours. This dataset publishes those reports with employer names and narratives. It gives an unvarnished look at industrial danger in specific workplaces.","ty":"Dataset","c":"United States","h":"OSHA","url":"https://www.osha.gov/severeinjury","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261008084341/https://www.osha.gov/severeinjury","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:31.558Z"},{"s":"nasa-asrs-database","id":"QA-0101","t":"Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database","a":"NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System","as":"ASRS","y":1976,"ry":1976,"dd":"1976","rd":"1976","tags":["aviation safety","near misses","human factors","narratives"],"sum":"Pilots, controllers and mechanics have filed confidential, de-identified safety reports with NASA since 1976, in their own words: near-misses, fatigue, automation confusion. The narratives are searchable but buried behind a dated interface. One of the richest first-person records of how complex systems almost fail.","ty":"Database","c":"United States","h":"NASA ASRS","url":"https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/search/database.html","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260929121506/https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/search/database.html","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:32.661Z"},{"s":"dol-site-exposure-matrices","id":"QA-0102","t":"EEOICP Site Exposure Matrices (toxic substances at DOE weapons sites)","a":"Department of Labor","as":"DOL","y":2001,"ry":2001,"dd":"2001","rd":"2001","tags":["nuclear workers","toxic exposure","compensation","DOE sites"],"sum":"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. It exists to process compensation claims for sick nuclear workers. It is also a building-by-building chemical map of the U.S. weapons complex.","ty":"Database","c":"United States","h":"Department of Labor","url":"https://www.sem.dol.gov/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261009140904/https://www.sem.dol.gov/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:34.320Z"},{"s":"usgs-declassified-satellite-imagery","id":"QA-0103","t":"Declassified Satellite Imagery – 1 (CORONA, ARGON, LANYARD), USGS EarthExplorer","a":"USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center","as":"USGS EROS","y":1960,"ry":1995,"dd":"1960","rd":"1995-02","tags":["CORONA","spy satellites","imagery","archaeology"],"sum":"More than 860,000 spy-satellite images taken from 1960 to 1972, declassified by executive order in 1995 and searchable through USGS EarthExplorer. Archaeologists, glaciologists and historians use them to see landscapes before modern development. Downloads are free, but the portal is notoriously clunky.","ty":"Dataset","c":"United States","h":"USGS EROS","url":"https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/usgs-eros-archive-declassified-data-declassified-satellite-imagery-1","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260921164933/https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/usgs-eros-archive-declassified-data-declassified-satellite-imagery-1","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:35.194Z"},{"s":"census-www2-raw-index","id":"QA-0104","t":"U.S. Census Bureau raw file server (www2.census.gov)","a":"U.S. Census Bureau","as":"Census","y":1990,"ry":1996,"dd":"1990","rd":"1996","tags":["census","raw data","directory listing","rescued files"],"sum":"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. Navigating it is like browsing the Bureau's basement. Researchers use it to rescue tables that vanished from the main site.","ty":"Database","c":"United States","h":"U.S. Census Bureau","url":"https://www2.census.gov/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261015052049/https://www.census.gov/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:36.223Z"},{"s":"eu-financial-transparency-system","id":"QA-0105","t":"EU Financial Transparency System","a":"European Commission","as":"EC","y":2007,"ry":2007,"dd":"2007","rd":"2007","tags":["EU budget","beneficiaries","grants","procurement"],"sum":"The European Commission's searchable register of who receives money from the directly managed EU budget: contractors, NGOs, universities, companies, with amounts and programme. It is the EU's closest counterpart to USASpending. Little known even inside Brussels.","ty":"Database","c":"European Union","h":"European Commission","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260906115108/https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:38.082Z"},{"s":"eu-financial-sanctions-list","id":"QA-0106","t":"Consolidated list of persons, groups and entities subject to EU financial sanctions","a":"European Commission","as":"EC","y":2004,"ry":2004,"dd":"2004","rd":"2004","tags":["sanctions","asset freezes","Russia","compliance"],"sum":"The machine-readable master list of everyone under EU asset freezes, with legal basis, aliases and identifiers. Updated continuously since the Russia sanctions expansion. The raw file is what compliance systems actually use, quite unlike the press releases.","ty":"Dataset","c":"European Union","h":"data.europa.eu","url":"https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/consolidated-list-of-persons-groups-and-entities-subject-to-eu-financial-sanctions","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260926014644/https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets/consolidated-list-of-persons-groups-and-entities-subject-to-eu-financial-sanctions","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:39.918Z"},{"s":"eu-historical-archives","id":"QA-0107","t":"Historical Archives of the European Union — archival database","a":"Historical Archives of the European Union (EUI)","as":"HAEU","y":1952,"ry":1984,"dd":"1952","rd":"1984","tags":["European integration","archives","EU institutions","30-year rule"],"sum":"The official repository for the historical records of the EU institutions, opened after a 30-year rule, plus private papers of European founders. Searchable online with many digitized files. 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The paper drew attention after reports that its publication had been held up internally. A primary source on aid, corruption and institutional caution.","ty":"Study","c":"International","h":"World Bank Documents & Reports","url":"https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/493201582052636710","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260512220557/https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/493201582052636710","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:07:53.200Z"},{"s":"wb-debarred-firms","id":"QA-0113","t":"World Bank Listing of Ineligible Firms and Individuals","a":"World Bank Group","as":"World Bank","y":1999,"ry":1999,"dd":"1999","rd":"1999","tags":["debarment","procurement fraud","corruption","development finance"],"sum":"Companies and people barred from World Bank-financed contracts for fraud, corruption or collusion, with dates, grounds and cross-debarments by other development banks. 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A foundational text of transitional justice.","ty":"Report","c":"South Africa","h":"Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (South Africa)","url":"https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260906152011/https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:02.256Z"},{"s":"de-stasi-records-archive","id":"QA-0115","t":"Stasi Records Archive (Bundesarchiv)","a":"Bundesarchiv — Stasi Records Archive","as":"Bundesarchiv","y":1950,"ry":1992,"dd":"1950","rd":"1992-01-02","tags":["Stasi","East Germany","surveillance","Cold War"],"sum":"The files of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, opened to the people they spied on from January 1992. Roughly 111 kilometres of shelved files, plus bags of shredded paper still being reconstructed. Since 2021 the archive has been part of the German Federal Archives.","ty":"Collection","c":"Germany","h":"Bundesarchiv","url":"https://www.bundesarchiv.de/en/stasi-records-archive/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260828073110/https://www.bundesarchiv.de/en/stasi-records-archive/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:04.418Z"},{"s":"br-sian-arquivo-nacional","id":"QA-0116","t":"SIAN — Arquivo Nacional information system (incl. Brazilian Air Force UFO records)","a":"Arquivo Nacional do Brasil","as":"Arquivo Nacional","y":1952,"ry":2008,"dd":"1952","rd":"2008","tags":["Brazil","UFOs","Operação Prato","national archives"],"sum":"Brazil's National Archives database. Since 2008 it has received declassified Brazilian Air Force records on UFO sightings, including the 1977 'Operação Prato' investigation in the Amazon. Registration is required and the interface is Portuguese-only, which keeps it obscure.","ty":"Database","c":"Brazil","h":"Arquivo Nacional do Brasil","url":"https://sian.an.gov.br/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261010153733/https://sian.an.gov.br/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:05.543Z"},{"s":"in-abhilekh-patal","id":"QA-0117","t":"Abhilekh Patal — National Archives of India online portal","a":"National Archives of India","as":"NAI","y":1748,"ry":2015,"dd":"1748","rd":"2015","tags":["India","colonial records","Partition","national archives"],"sum":"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. It is powerful but hard to search, and most records are page images without OCR. Indispensable for South Asian history.","ty":"Database","c":"India","h":"National Archives of India","url":"https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260808094310/https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:07.926Z"},{"s":"in-netaji-papers","id":"QA-0118","t":"Netaji Papers: declassified files on Subhas Chandra Bose","a":"National Archives of India","as":"NAI","y":1941,"ry":2016,"dd":"1941","rd":"2016-01-23","tags":["Subhas Chandra Bose","India","declassification","independence movement"],"sum":"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. Decades of commissions and controversy preceded the release. Here are the primary files.","ty":"Collection","c":"India","h":"National Archives of India (netajipapers.gov.in)","url":"https://www.netajipapers.gov.in/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20230826191027/https://www.netajipapers.gov.in/","status":"unreachable","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:50.178Z"},{"s":"in-egazette","id":"QA-0119","t":"eGazette of India","a":"Directorate of Printing, Government of India","as":"GoI Printing","y":1922,"ry":2008,"dd":"1922","rd":"2008","tags":["India","official gazette","notifications","law"],"sum":"The official Gazette of India: every notification, ordinance, appointment and rule with legal force, as scanned PDFs. It is the Indian equivalent of the Federal Register, but harder to search. Finding a notification here is how you confirm what the law actually says.","ty":"Database","c":"India","h":"Government of India","url":"https://egazette.gov.in/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://egazette.gov.in/","status":"unreachable","checked":"2026-10-15T10:12:37.916Z"},{"s":"fr-geipan-ufo-archive","id":"QA-0120","t":"GEIPAN case archive (French space agency UFO bureau)","a":"GEIPAN — Centre National d'Études Spatiales","as":"CNES / GEIPAN","y":1977,"ry":2007,"dd":"1977","rd":"2007-03","tags":["UAP","France","CNES","case files"],"sum":"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. Each case is classified A (explained) through D (unexplained after investigation). It is the most transparent government UFO program anywhere, and almost unknown in the English-speaking world.","ty":"Database","c":"France","h":"CNES / GEIPAN","url":"https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260911043647/https://www.cnes-geipan.fr/","status":"blocked","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:14.960Z"},{"s":"ga-odni-kremlin-assassinations-2016","id":"QA-0121","t":"NIC Sense of the Community Memorandum: Kremlin-Ordered Assassinations Abroad Will Probably Persist (2016)","a":"Office of the Director of National Intelligence","as":"ODNI","y":2016,"ry":2026,"dd":"2016","rd":"2026-05-11","tags":["Russia","assassinations","National Intelligence Council","FOIA"],"sum":"A National Intelligence Council 'Sense of the Community' memorandum (SOCM 2016-035C) assessing that Russian state-ordered killings abroad were likely to continue. Released through FOIA and posted in May 2026. Rare: a declassified IC product on targeted killing that most coverage of the Skripal and Litvinenko cases never cites.","ty":"Memo","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/ODNIbicSOCM2016-035C2016.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/ODNIbicSOCM2016-035C2016.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:20.723Z"},{"s":"ga-dos-smartphone-nuclear-tests","id":"QA-0122","t":"State Department contract to study detecting nuclear tests with smartphones (2014–2015)","a":"Department of State","as":"State","y":2014,"ry":2026,"dd":"2014","rd":"2026-04-27","tags":["nuclear test detection","smartphones","arms control verification","FOIA"],"sum":"Contract records for a State Department-funded study of whether the sensors in ordinary smartphones could help detect clandestine nuclear tests. Released through FOIA in 2026. A small window into crowd-sourced verification ideas in arms control.","ty":"Correspondence","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/DOSdetNukeTstsSmartPhones2014-2015.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/DOSdetNukeTstsSmartPhones2014-2015.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:23.313Z"},{"s":"ga-cia-cshp-list-1995","id":"QA-0123","t":"CIA List of Clandestine Services Historical Publications (1995)","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1995,"ry":2026,"dd":"1995","rd":"2026-04-06","tags":["CIA history","Clandestine Service","finding aid","FOIA"],"sum":"An index of the CIA's internal Clandestine Service histories, the classified studies the agency wrote about its own operations. A list of histories is a map for future FOIA and declassification requests. Released in April 2026.","ty":"Manual","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/CIAcshp1995.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260801090833/https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/CIAcshp1995.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:25.067Z"},{"s":"ga-cia-exit-the-silkmaker","id":"QA-0124","t":"Exit the Silkmaker: The CIA and Jim Thompson (Studies in Intelligence, 1993)","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1993,"ry":2026,"dd":"1993","rd":"2026-03-23","tags":["Jim Thompson","Thailand","OSS","disappearance"],"sum":"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. One of the great unsolved disappearances of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, in the agency's own words.","ty":"Official history","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/CIAetstcajt1993.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260414060413/https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/CIAetstcajt1993.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:26.017Z"},{"s":"ga-nrc-russian-heu-1993","id":"QA-0125","t":"NRC: U.S. Purchase of Russian Highly Enriched Uranium Recovered From Nuclear Weapons (1993)","a":"Nuclear Regulatory Commission","as":"NRC","y":1993,"ry":2026,"dd":"1993","rd":"2026-02-02","tags":["HEU","Megatons to Megawatts","disarmament","nuclear fuel"],"sum":"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. That deal, 'Megatons to Megawatts', went on to fuel a large share of U.S. nuclear electricity for two decades. The regulatory side of one of history's largest disarmament programs.","ty":"Memo","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/NRCuspHEUrfnw1993.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260311130620/https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/NRCuspHEUrfnw1993.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:28.559Z"},{"s":"ga-nrc-mexican-radioactive-metal-1992","id":"QA-0126","t":"NRC memo regarding radioactive metal sent to the United States from Mexico (SECY-92-042)","a":"Nuclear Regulatory Commission","as":"NRC","y":1992,"ry":2026,"dd":"1992","rd":"2026-01-19","tags":["radioactive contamination","scrap metal","Mexico","NRC"],"sum":"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. It documents how regulators handled cross-border contamination. Released through FOIA in 2026.","ty":"Memo","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/NRChotMexicanMetal1992.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/NRChotMexicanMetal1992.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:29.914Z"},{"s":"ga-usss-mission-assurance-1981","id":"QA-0127","t":"Secret Service Mission Assurance reports on the shootings of Reagan and Wallace and the attempt on Ford (1981)","a":"United States Secret Service","as":"USSS","y":1981,"ry":2026,"dd":"1981","rd":"2026-02-02","tags":["Secret Service","Reagan","assassination attempts","after-action review"],"sum":"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. Internal after-action reviews of protective failures are rarely released. Posted in February 2026.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/USSSshootReaganFordWallace1981.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260915051114/https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/USSSshootReaganFordWallace1981.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:35.673Z"},{"s":"ga-usaf-crested-ice-thule-1969","id":"QA-0128","t":"Project Crested Ice: The Thule Nuclear Accident, Vol. 1 (SAC Historical Study #113, 1969)","a":"Strategic Air Command (USAF)","as":"SAC","y":1969,"ry":2026,"dd":"1969-04-23","rd":"2026-01-19","tags":["Thule","Broken Arrow","B-52","Greenland"],"sum":"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. The accident ended airborne nuclear alert flights. Released in full through FOIA in January 2026.","ty":"Official history","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/USAFprojCrestedIceThuleNukeAccident1969.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/USAFprojCrestedIceThuleNukeAccident1969.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:38.232Z"},{"s":"ga-navy-human-radiation-1994","id":"QA-0129","t":"Department of the Navy Supplemental Report of Human Radiation Experiments (1994)","a":"Department of the Navy","as":"Navy","y":1994,"ry":2026,"dd":"1994-03-31","rd":"2026-01-19","tags":["human radiation experiments","Navy","Cold War","research ethics"],"sum":"The Navy's 1994 report to the Clinton administration's review of Cold War human radiation experiments, listing Navy-sponsored studies involving radiation exposure of service members and others. It complements the ACHRE final report. Only now posted online.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/NavySupRptHumRadExp1994.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/NavySupRptHumRadExp1994.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:44.002Z"},{"s":"ga-nasa-50-years-lessons","id":"QA-0130","t":"NASA: Lessons Learned from Fifty Years of Observing Hardware and Human Behavior (2011)","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":2011,"ry":2026,"dd":"2011","rd":"2026-01-26","tags":["lessons learned","NASA","engineering","human factors"],"sum":"An internal NASA compilation distilling five decades of hardware failures and the human behavior around them, written for engineers rather than the public. It reads as the tacit knowledge behind accident reports. Released through FOIA alongside other NASA lessons-learned documents in January 2026.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/NASAll50YrsHdwHumBehav2011.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260617094646/https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/NASAll50YrsHdwHumBehav2011.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:49.916Z"},{"s":"ga-abmc-margraten-panels-2025","id":"QA-0131","t":"ABMC records regarding removal of Black soldier panels at the Margraten cemetery, Netherlands (2025)","a":"American Battle Monuments Commission","as":"ABMC","y":2025,"ry":2026,"dd":"2025","rd":"2026-02-09","tags":["memorials","Black soldiers","World War II","Netherlands"],"sum":"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. FOIA'd within months of the controversy. A current-events primary source most coverage never linked.","ty":"Correspondence","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/ABMCrrrbspMCn2025.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260714044141/https://www.governmentattic.org/61docs/ABMCrrrbspMCn2025.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:51.543Z"},{"s":"ga-ustr-foreign-movie-tariffs-2025","id":"QA-0132","t":"USTR emails on the President's intent to impose 100% tariffs on foreign movies (May 2025)","a":"Office of the U.S. Trade Representative","as":"USTR","y":2025,"ry":2026,"dd":"2025-05","rd":"2026-05-11","tags":["tariffs","film industry","trade policy","FOIA"],"sum":"Internal Trade Representative emails from 1–7 May 2025, after the President announced a 100 percent tariff on foreign-made films. They show trade officials scrambling to work out what the announcement meant in practice. Released through FOIA one year later.","ty":"Correspondence","c":"United States","h":"Government Attic","url":"https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/USTRtrumpTaeiffsForeignMovies2025.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260617094646/https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/USTRtrumpTaeiffsForeignMovies2025.pdf","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:53.924Z"},{"s":"bv-nsa-coupon-collecting","id":"QA-0133","t":"NSA Technical Journal: ‘Coupon Collecting and Cryptology’ (1966)","a":"National Security Agency","as":"NSA","y":1966,"ry":2026,"dd":"1966","rd":"2026-09-22","tags":["cryptology","probability","NSA Technical Journal","women in mathematics"],"sum":"A mathematical paper by Marie Capozza from the Fall 1966 NSA Technical Journal, applying the classic 'coupon collector' probability problem to cryptology. The NSA released it more than nine years after the request. Pure Cold War cryptomathematics, by one of the agency's women mathematicians.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-releases-1966-secret-study-on-coupon-collecting-and-cryptology-after-nine-year-foia-wait/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-releases-1966-secret-study-on-coupon-collecting-and-cryptology-after-nine-year-foia-wait/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:08:57.073Z"},{"s":"bv-cia-kubark-2026","id":"QA-0134","t":"KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual (1963), most complete release","a":"Central Intelligence Agency","as":"CIA","y":1963,"ry":2026,"dd":"1963-07","rd":"2026-07-28","tags":["interrogation","KUBARK","CIA","mandatory declassification review"],"sum":"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). The 2026 release is the most complete official version yet. Comparing it with older redacted copies shows exactly what the agency still withholds.","ty":"Manual","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-declassifies-additional-portions-of-1963-kubark-manual-after-the-black-vault-appeal/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261007032225/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-declassifies-additional-portions-of-1963-kubark-manual-after-the-black-vault-appeal/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:02.831Z"},{"s":"bv-nsa-technology-forecasts","id":"QA-0135","t":"NSA ‘Point Forecasts’: technology forecasting studies (brain–network interfaces, terahertz, energy harvesting)","a":"National Security Agency","as":"NSA","y":2010,"ry":2026,"dd":"2010","rd":"2026-09-22","tags":["technology forecasting","NSA","brain-computer interfaces","FOIA delays"],"sum":"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. They show what the agency thought would matter next. The 15-year delay is part of the story.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-releases-cold-war-era-style-technology-forecasts-on-brain-network-interfaces-terahertz-systems-energy-harvesting-and-more/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-releases-cold-war-era-style-technology-forecasts-on-brain-network-interfaces-terahertz-systems-energy-harvesting-and-more/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:06.006Z"},{"s":"bv-navy-advanced-naval-vehicles","id":"QA-0136","t":"Navy advanced naval vehicles study: nuclear-powered aircraft, 80-knot ships, giant airships (late 1970s)","a":"Department of the Navy","as":"Navy","y":1979,"ry":2026,"dd":"1979","rd":"2026-09-30","tags":["Navy","nuclear-powered aircraft","surface effect ships","airships"],"sum":"Hundreds of pages of technical, cost and mission analysis from a late-1970s Navy effort to choose its next generation of vehicles: nuclear-powered aircraft that could stay aloft for days, 80-knot surface-effect ships and enormous lighter-than-air craft. None were built. It is a record of the future the Navy considered and chose not to buy.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-releases-hundreds-of-pages-on-cold-war-era-advanced-naval-vehicles-including-nuclear-powered-aircraft-and-high-speed-warship-concepts/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261007032222/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/navy-releases-hundreds-of-pages-on-cold-war-era-advanced-naval-vehicles-including-nuclear-powered-aircraft-and-high-speed-warship-concepts/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:11.764Z"},{"s":"bv-nsa-missing-cold-war-aircrews","id":"QA-0137","t":"NSA records on the Pentagon's 1992 search for missing Cold War reconnaissance aircrews","a":"National Security Agency","as":"NSA","y":1992,"ry":2026,"dd":"1992","rd":"2026-10-09","tags":["POW/MIA","reconnaissance flights","Cold War","SIGINT"],"sum":"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. They show how signals intelligence archives were searched for evidence of survivors after the Soviet collapse.","ty":"Correspondence","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-foia-records-detail-pentagons-1992-search-for-answers-on-missing-cold-war-aircrews/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261010084253/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-foia-records-detail-pentagons-1992-search-for-answers-on-missing-cold-war-aircrews/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:17.686Z"},{"s":"bv-doe-human-subjects-research","id":"QA-0138","t":"DOE classified human subjects research records, from ‘Blue Dragon’ to ‘Woodstock’","a":"Department of Energy","as":"DOE","y":2018,"ry":2026,"dd":"2018","rd":"2026-01-23","tags":["human subjects research","DOE","classified research","FOIA"],"sum":"Department of Energy records listing classified human subjects research projects, released after a seven-year FOIA wait. HSR at DOE can include behavioral testing, biometrics and the analysis of large datasets derived from human activity. A rare inventory of research that normally never surfaces.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/from-blue-dragon-to-woodstock-does-classified-human-subjects-research-revealed-after-7-year-wait/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/from-blue-dragon-to-woodstock-does-classified-human-subjects-research-revealed-after-7-year-wait/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:20.469Z"},{"s":"bv-nasa-et-life-announcement","id":"QA-0139","t":"NASA internal planning on how to announce discovery of extraterrestrial life (2025)","a":"National Aeronautics and Space Administration","as":"NASA","y":2025,"ry":2026,"dd":"2025","rd":"2026-05-01","tags":["astrobiology","NASA","communications protocol","extraterrestrial life"],"sum":"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. It is procedural and dry, which is the point. This is what preparedness looks like on paper.","ty":"Correspondence","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nasa-documents-show-renewed-internal-planning-on-how-to-announce-discovery-of-extraterrestrial-life/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nasa-documents-show-renewed-internal-planning-on-how-to-announce-discovery-of-extraterrestrial-life/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:21.389Z"},{"s":"bv-aaro-fy2025-annual-report","id":"QA-0140","t":"AARO FY2025 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena","a":"All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (DoD)","as":"AARO","y":2025,"ry":2026,"dd":"2025","rd":"2026-07-21","tags":["UAP","AARO","annual report","Pentagon"],"sum":"The Pentagon UAP office's report for fiscal 2025, documenting 319 newly received reports; every resolved case was attributed to conventional causes. It arrived months after the statutory deadline. The Black Vault's page hosts the document and tracks the deadline history; the official defense.gov copy blocks automated checks.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/aaro-releases-fy2025-uap-report-months-after-statutory-deadline-citing-319-new-cases-and-expanded-satellite-analysis/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261007032214/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/aaro-releases-fy2025-uap-report-months-after-statutory-deadline-citing-319-new-cases-and-expanded-satellite-analysis/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:22.537Z"},{"s":"bv-uap-space-tiger-team","id":"QA-0141","t":"U.S. Space Command records on the 2023 ‘UAP Space Tiger Team’","a":"Department of Defense","as":"DoD","y":2023,"ry":2026,"dd":"2023","rd":"2026-05-01","tags":["UAP","Space Command","AARO","transmedium"],"sum":"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. It shows the institutional plumbing of UAP analysis. Little noticed outside specialist circles.","ty":"Memo","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/newly-released-documents-show-uap-space-tiger-team-built-around-space-and-transmedium-cases/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260926150542/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/newly-released-documents-show-uap-space-tiger-team-built-around-space-and-transmedium-cases/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:26.768Z"},{"s":"bv-1980-debategate","id":"QA-0142","t":"The 1980 Reagan–Carter ‘Debategate’ scandal files","a":"U.S. House of Representatives","as":"House","y":1980,"ry":2026,"dd":"1980-10-28","rd":"2026-10-07","tags":["Debategate","1980 election","Reagan","Carter"],"sum":"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. Congressional investigators never established how. A forgotten campaign-ethics scandal, now collected in one place.","ty":"Collection","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-1980-reagan-carter-debategate-scandal/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/the-1980-reagan-carter-debategate-scandal/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:30.038Z"},{"s":"bv-nsa-phase-of-the-moon","id":"QA-0143","t":"NSA Technical Journal: ‘Maybe It's Related to the Phase of the Moon…’ (1972)","a":"National Security Agency","as":"NSA","y":1972,"ry":2026,"dd":"1972","rd":"2026-09-16","tags":["NSA Technical Journal","redactions","FOIA delays","cryptology"],"sum":"A heavily redacted 1972 NSA Technical Journal article, released in 2026 more than nine years after the FOIA request of 6 August 2017. The title alone invites speculation about what an intelligence agency found worth studying. A specimen of how much remains hidden even in 50-year-old technical papers.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"The Black Vault","url":"https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-releases-heavily-redacted-1972-technical-journal-article-after-nine-year-foia-wait/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-releases-heavily-redacted-1972-technical-journal-article-after-nine-year-foia-wait/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:35.799Z"},{"s":"pi-hsgac-trump-assassination-attempt","id":"QA-0144","t":"Senate Homeland Security Committee interim report on the 13 July 2024 Trump assassination attempt","a":"Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee","as":"HSGAC","y":2024,"ry":2024,"dd":"2024-09-25","rd":"2024-09-25","tags":["Secret Service","Butler","assassination attempt","Senate oversight"],"sum":"The bipartisan Senate committee's interim findings on Secret Service failures at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally: communications breakdowns, unclear responsibilities and the unsecured roof. Public Intelligence mirrors the PDF with its metadata intact. Read alongside the Secret Service's 1981 Mission Assurance reports.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Public Intelligence","url":"https://publicintelligence.net/us-hsgac-trump-assassination-attempt/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260510184507/https://publicintelligence.net/us-hsgac-trump-assassination-attempt/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:40.714Z"},{"s":"pi-house-financial-surveillance","id":"QA-0145","t":"House report: how federal law enforcement commandeered financial institutions to spy on Americans (2024)","a":"U.S. House of Representatives","as":"House","y":2024,"ry":2024,"dd":"2024-03","rd":"2024-03-09","tags":["financial surveillance","banks","January 6","House Judiciary"],"sum":"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. It is a partisan document, but it reproduces internal bank and agency emails. Primary material on financial surveillance that rarely gets discussed.","ty":"Report","c":"United States","h":"Public Intelligence","url":"https://publicintelligence.net/us-house-financial-surveillance-report/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261007090357/https://publicintelligence.net/us-house-financial-surveillance-report/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:41.747Z"},{"s":"pi-fbi-sovereign-citizen-guide","id":"QA-0146","t":"FBI Domestic Terrorism Reference Guide: Sovereign Citizen Violent Extremism (U//FOUO)","a":"Federal Bureau of Investigation","as":"FBI","y":2023,"ry":2024,"dd":"2023","rd":"2024-01-29","tags":["sovereign citizens","domestic terrorism","FBI","FOUO"],"sum":"An FBI reference guide for law enforcement on the sovereign-citizen movement: its pseudo-legal beliefs, paper-terrorism tactics and indicators of violence. It was marked For Official Use Only and never meant for the public. It shows exactly how the Bureau frames a domestic-extremism threat.","ty":"Manual","c":"United States","h":"Public Intelligence","url":"https://publicintelligence.net/fbi-sovereign-citizen-violent-extremism-guide/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260510041638/https://publicintelligence.net/fbi-sovereign-citizen-violent-extremism-guide/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:47.546Z"},{"s":"ia-blue-book-special-report-14","id":"QA-0147","t":"Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (1955)","a":"United States Air Force","as":"USAF","y":1954,"ry":1955,"dd":"1954","rd":"1955-10","tags":["Project Blue Book","Battelle","UFO statistics","Air Force"],"sum":"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. Its own tables show the best-documented reports were not the easiest to explain, a nuance the Air Force's public summary smoothed over. Scanned from the original; no official digital edition was found.","ty":"Study","c":"United States","h":"Internet Archive","url":"https://archive.org/details/ProjectBlueBookSpecialReport14","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/2026*/https://archive.org/details/ProjectBlueBookSpecialReport14","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:53.453Z"},{"s":"ia-condon-report-dtic","id":"QA-0148","t":"Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Vol. 1 (Condon Report, DTIC AD0680975)","a":"Defense Technical Information Center","as":"DTIC","y":1969,"ry":1969,"dd":"1969-01","rd":"1969-01","tags":["Condon Report","UFOs","Project Blue Book","University of Colorado"],"sum":"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. Its case chapters are more equivocal than its summary. 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A public-memory backstop for the federal web.","ty":"Database","c":"United States","h":"End of Term Web Archive","url":"https://eotarchive.org/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012085151/https://eotarchive.org/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:09:59.229Z"},{"s":"unt-cybercemetery","id":"QA-0150","t":"CyberCemetery: websites of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions","a":"UNT Libraries / U.S. Government Publishing Office partnership","as":"CyberCemetery","y":1997,"ry":1997,"dd":"1997","rd":"1997","tags":["web archiving","defunct agencies","commissions","dead links"],"sum":"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. When an official site vanishes with its commission, its documents often survive only here. The original graveyard of the federal web.","ty":"Database","c":"United States","h":"UNT Digital Library","url":"https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/GDCC/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012025246/https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/GDCC/","status":"live","checked":"2026-10-15T10:10:05.008Z"}]