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Declassified Documents
Every record below is a real document released by a government archive — declassified memos, FOIA productions, and intelligence files pulled from public collections: the U.S. National Archives, GovInfo, the CIA CREST database, and MuckRock’s FOIA releases. Open any file to read the original scan inline.
We surface them because the paper trail is where conspiracy theories live or die. Where a document touches a theory already in the wiki, we say so. Where it doesn’t yet — that’s an invitation to file one.
This Day, Declassified
October 27- CIA CREST1998-07-13
STATUS OF TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING IN THE UNITED STATES
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1955-01-07
RANDOM THOUGHTS ON OUR NEXT BIG SOVIET PAPER
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1989-09-29
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DRAFT TESTIMONY ON THE DEA'S DRUG PROGRAM.
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1951-10-16
LETTER FROM THE HONORABLE J. EDGAR HOOVER, DIRECTOR FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, DATED 27 SEPTEMBER 1951
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1952-05-15
LETTER TO MR. J. EDGAR HOOVER FROM WALTER B. SMITH
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1951-10-31
LETTER TO MR. J. EDGAR HOOVER FROM W. B. SMITH
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1962-07-03
TRANSPORTATION REPORT FOR APRIL 1962
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1979-05-15
DETENTION PRACTICES ARE UPHELD BY SUPREME COURT
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1965-12-07
LETTER TO DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN FROM ALBERT D. WHEELON
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2004-09-07
RE: GOOGLE CONTRACT
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2016-12-19
KISSINGER ANSWERS HIS CRITICS
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1973-02-14
CABLE TO BRENT SCOWCROFT FROM HENRY A. KISSINGER
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - NARA
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38662, George Dixon, Va.
National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference
Open file → - CIA CREST1953-08-14
MALENKOV, G N/KHRUSHCHEV, N S
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1975-06-24
MEMO TO JAMES A. WILDEROTTER FROM JOHN M. CLARKE RE FOLLOW-UP TO MY DISCUSSION THE ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION PAPERS
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1984-08-15
CONGRESS ASSAILS DEMOCRACY GROUP
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - NARA
NIE 11-1-73, 20 Dec 73, Soviet Space Programs
National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
Open file → - CIA CREST1988-10-01
SOVIET REQUIREMENTS FOR WESTERN TECHNOLOGY; A FORECASTING METHODOLOGY
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1956-07-19
LETTER TO GENE FROM DWIGHT EISENHOWER
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1956-04-01
LETTER TO DOCTOR JAMES R. KILLIAN FROM DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1945-10-23
HITLER HIDEOUT IN ARGENTINA
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - NARA
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10170, for John Kennedy, North Carolina
National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference
Pensioner: Cherry Kennedy. Veteran's Service: N.C.
Open file → - CIA CREST2016-12-19
LETTER TO MR. (SANITIZED) FROM G. ROBERT BLAKEY
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2016-12-19
LETTER TO (SANITIZED) FROM G. ROBERT BLAKEY
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2016-12-20
CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE BUSH COVERS MICROPHONE AS HE CHATS WITH CHAIRMAN BELLA ABZUG
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2016-12-20
CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE BUSH TODAY REVEALED HE HAS BEEN ON A RECENT SECRET MISSION TO THREE FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1976-11-18
EXCERPTS FROM REMARKS BY GEORGE BUSH DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE THE MID-AMERICA COMMITTEE CHICAGO, ILL.
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2013-09-26
ISRAEL: NEW INITIATIVE IN IDF'S SECRETIVE UNIT 8200 DRAWS LESSONS FROM MICROSOFT, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1972-03-04
NIXONS HIMMLER
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - NARA
Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5,627, George Anderson, Va.
National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference
Pensioner: Mary Anderson
Open file → - CIA CREST1962-08-14
DEAR MR. JOHNSON:
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1967-08-02
JOHNSON, AIDES THREATENED BY CARMICHAEL
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2016-10-25
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SURVEY 19; HUNGARY; SCIENCE
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1969-04-23
REQUIREMENTS FOR SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MAPPING ACTIVITIES
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2016-12-20
EXECUTIVE ORDER UNITED STATES FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1987-12-01
REAR DEPOT SUPPORT TO SOVIET HEAVY ICBMS
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1988-05-19
ALASKA-BASED F-15S INTERCEPT SOVIET BOMBERS AT GREATER RANGES
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1987-09-29
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS CIA AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY BY ROBERT M. GATES DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1966-06-23
LETTER TO THE HONORABLE J. EDGAR HOOVER FROM W. F. RABORN
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1968-12-17
NIXON WILL RETAIN HOOVER AND HELMS
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - NARA2011-10-04
Office of the Administrator - Google
National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures
Photographer: Eric Vance.
Open file → - NARA
Regiments Numbered 4: Google THRU Green
National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference
Open file → - MUCKROCK2015-03-27
Google
Responsive documents
Open file → - MUCKROCK2015-03-27
Google license
Responsive documents
Open file → - MUCKROCK2012-05-29
Google Response
Federal Communications Commission
A copy of a letter from Google, Inc. and its legal counsel to the FCC stating its objections to releasing commercially sensitive materials.
Open file → - MUCKROCK2017-06-02
GOOGLE INC
Department of Environmental Quality
Open file → - NARA
Himmler, Heinrich
National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
Open file → - NARA1945-01-01
Himmler, Heinrich
National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
Open file → - NARA1975-07-01
Kissinger, Henry
Gerald R. Ford Library
Open file → - CIA CREST
MESSAGE TO HENRY KISSINGER FROM AMBASSADOR HELMS, 17 AUGUST 1973
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - NARA2011-10-27
Secretary Ray LaHood [with Google executives outside DOT headquarters, examining] Google-developed self-driving car
National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures
Photographer: Julie M. Fischer - DOT Staff.
Open file → - NARA2014-01-31
President Obama during Google+ hangout
Barack Obama Presidential Library
Original post: RT @petesouza: POTUS during Google+ hangout today pic.twitter.com/QD9OilQevd
Open file → - NARA
CAREER OF HEINRICH HIMMLER
National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
Open file → - NARA1942-12-10
Memorandum from Field Commander Heinrich Himmler
National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
Open file → - MUCKROCK2015-04-13
121114 - Channel 7 Sandra Barry - StopFraudColorado Heinrich R&R.pdf
Office of the Attorney General
Open file → - NARA1975-01-01
Kissinger, Henry
Gerald R. Ford Library
Open file → - NARA
Kissinger, Henry
George Bush Library
Open file → - NARA
KISSINGER, Henry Alfred
National Archives at Philadelphia
Open file → - MUCKROCK2024-06-14
Henry Kissinger
USCIS Reading Room
Open file → - CIA CREST2016-12-19
HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS REQUEST DATED 22 MARCH 1978
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2016-12-19
HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS FOLLOW -UP REQUEST (U)
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1986-08-18
LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM RICHARD G. LUGAR
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1986-04-25
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC & ENERGY WEEKLY
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2000-12-12
INTERROGATORIES TO THE HONORABLE ALLEN DULLES IN COMPLIANCE WITH LETTERS ROGATORY DIRECTED TO THE WITNESS
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1952-07-31
EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN CENTRAL-SOUTH CHINA BW DEFENSE AND ARMY HEALTH
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1958-10-22
SOVIET ATTITUDE ON DISCUSSION OF VARIOUS INSTRUMENTS OF SURPRISE ATTACK
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - NARA
United Nations
National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures
Open file → - CIA CREST1966-01-17
ATTACK ON HON. J. EDGAR HOOVER
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST2000-08-07
DEAR MR. HOOVER:
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - NARA
U.S.-Soviet Space Cooperation
George Bush Library
Open file → - NARA1780-01-01
Ledger of Accounts of the United States with Various States for Military Stores
National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference
These ledgers show dates, kinds, amounts, and values for stores furnished to states by the United States and, in the case of Pennsylvania, for stores furnished
Open file → - CIA CREST1955-03-09
JOSEPH STALIN PLANT AT LABEDY
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1986-10-30
THIS LETTER CONSTITUTES MY FORMAL APPEAL FOR YOUR REFUSAL TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS NUMBERED 1 AND 2 IN THE TRUMAN LIBRARY DECLASSIFICATION PROJECT 85-70
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - MUCKROCK2026-03-09
Supreme Court of Appeals Interview Materials_Redacted
Office of the Governor - West Virginia, West Virginia
Open file → - MUCKROCK2022-08-03
Cretacci Goes to Supreme Court
Erie County Sheriff's Office, Erie County, NY
Open file → - CIA CREST1983-12-05
LETTER TO ROBERT M. GATES FROM EDWARD D. NAPIER
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - MUCKROCK2025-12-07
Thomas More Society 2024 990
Open file → - NARA
U.S. Supreme Court
National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
Open file → - NARA
U.S. Supreme Court
National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
Open file → - MUCKROCK2019-01-05
Supreme Court Published - Maslenjak v. United States.pdf
Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
Open file → - MUCKROCK2026-06-25
Supreme Court Administration 740
Open file → - CIA CREST1974-01-24
DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN - NEXT CIA GUEST SPEAKER
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1982-06-04
REMARKS OF WILLIAM J. CASEY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BEFORE SMITHSONIAN RESIDENT ASSOCIATE PROGRAM "GREAT AMERICAN BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II: NEW PERSPECTIVES" SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON, D.C. JULY 15, 1982
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - CIA CREST1976-09-21
LETTER TO HONORABLE GEORGE H. BUSH FROM MELVIN PRICE
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - MUCKROCK2026-09-28
Acknowledgment Standard
Executive Office for United States Attorneys, United States of America
Open file → - NARA
Food and Drug Administration - Modernization [3]
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - CIA CREST1981-07-13
HITLER PROFILE PREDICTED HIS LATER SUICIDE
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - MUCKROCK2020-02-12
u.s.-department-of-justice-form-361-certification-of-identity
Department Of Justice, United States Trustee Program
Open file → - NARA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
Open file → - NARA1976-09-01
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Gerald R. Ford Library
Open file → - NARA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Tyrone Taylor
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - CIA CREST1954-11-26
FIFTH CONGRESS OF HEMATOLOGY
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - MUCKROCK2020-02-12
u.s.-department-of-justice-form-361-certification-of-identity
Department Of Justice, United States Trustee Program
Open file → - MUCKROCK2020-02-12
u.s.-department-of-justice-form-361-certification-of-identity
Department Of Justice, United States Trustee Program
Open file → - NARA
Surface Transportation Board
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA
Larry Campbell, National Transportation Safety Board
National Archives at Seattle
Open file → - NARA
Chemical Safety Board
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - MUCKROCK2026-06-10
RDA_35538_TennCare Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), Prepaid Limited Health Service Organization (PLHSO), and Third-Party Adm
Open file → - MUCKROCK2026-05-18
Organization
Alpha Assistance
Open file → - MUCKROCK2013-05-06
Organization
University of Kentucky
Open file → - MUCKROCK2025-09-29
Organization Comments
Open file → - NARA
[World Health Organization]
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA
World Health Organization (WHO)
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA1940-05-21
2201689 - Art of Animation - Walt Disney
National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference
Open file → - NARA
Beijing - WHO [World Health Organization] [1]
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA
Case Resolution of 'Western United States'
National Archives at College Park - Electronic Records
This item is the "Western United States" Case Resolution from May 8, 2023 from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
Open file → - NARA
Case Resolution of 'Southeast Asia Triangles'
National Archives at College Park - Electronic Records
This item is the "Southeast Asia Triangles" Case Resolution from March 17, 2023 from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
Open file → - NARA
[World Health Organization World Health Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, 5/14/98] [3]
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA
Go Fast Case Resolution Card with Appendix
National Archives at College Park - Electronic Records
This item is the "Go Fast" Case Resolution from February 6, 2025 from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
Open file → - CIA CREST1955-05-06
LETTER TO MR. WILBUR K. JORDAN FROM ALLEN W. DULLES
Central Intelligence Agency
Open file → - NARA
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA
CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA
CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] HIV Prevention Plan
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA
Issues - Prevention - Studies - CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
William J. Clinton Library
Open file → - NARA1922-01-01
United States Geological Survey: State of Louisiana
National Archives at College Park - Cartographic
Open file → - NARA1922-01-01
United States Geological Survey - State of Wyoming
National Archives at College Park - Cartographic
Annotated to show union areas.
Open file → - NARA1922-01-01
United States Geological Survey - State of Missouri
National Archives at College Park - Cartographic
Annotated to show union areas.
Open file → - NARA1915-01-01
United States Geological Survey National Map showing Southwest United States
National Archives at College Park - Cartographic
Map shows southwest United States (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada), the first of four map sections. Map is a 1915 reproduction of an original survey c
Open file →