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Bosnian War (1992-1995): Bosnia, Intelligence and Clinton's Presidency: CIA, State Department, Department of Defense & White House Files - 2,346 pages of CIA, State Department, DOD, National Security Council and White House files concerning the Bosnian War, CIA Intelligence, Clinton Administration's policy decisions, and the Dayton Peace Accords.



Whitney Houston FBI Files - 128 pages of FBI files related to the singer and actress Whitney Elizabeth Houston (1963-2012), released by the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act.

Thanksgiving Day Historical Documents 1678 - 2011

A collection of documents, newspaper articles, political cartoons, and photographs chronicling observance of the American holiday, Thanksgiving Day.



American Ambassadors Killed (1968 - 1976) CIA and State Department Files. - CIA and State Department Documents related to the murders of American Ambassadors killed during the performance for their duties, 1968 to 1976.



John Kennedy Assassination - Lee Harvey Oswald KGB Files - This collection is a set of KGB documents given to President Bill Clinton in 1999 by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The files date from 1959 when Lee Harvey Oswald sought defection to the Soviet Union. Each original Russian language KGB document is accompanied by a translation later made by the United States Department of State.



Ronald Reagan Assassination Attempt Secret Service Audio - United States Secret Service command post radio traffic audio and transcript of March 30, 1981 shooting of President Ronald Reagan



Martin Luther King Jr. Lost Assassination Files - The files include some previously lost files. The lost files are the James Earl Ray public defender files, a collection of correspondences to and from James Earl Ray, and a set of photos dealing with the custody of Ray. The others documents include a Scotland Yard report, audio excepts from the Memphis Police Department radio dispatch at the time of the assassination and the Memphis Police Department homicide report .



Gaddafi Rise to Power in Libya: Libyan Revolution 1969-1972 - CIA, State Department, National Security Council and White House FilesThe rise and solidifying of power in Libya by Muammar al-Qaddafi and his relationship with the United States as seen through documents from the CIA, State Department, the Henry Kissinger Papers and Nixon presidential papers.



World War II: Adolf Hitler: "The Last Days in Hitler's Air Raid Shelter" Hanna Reitsch Interrogation - A US Army Interrogation unit report on the interrogation of Hanna Reitsch. Reitsch was a famous female German test pilot. She was the only woman to win the German Iron Cross. She is believed to be the last person to leave Hitler's air raid shelter alive. The report gives her firsthand account of the last days in Hitler's bunker.



World War II Horten Ho 229 - Hitler's Stealth Fighter - Horten Ho 229 & Other Horten Aircraft American & British Intelligence Documents. United States and British intelligence documents covering the development of aircraft designed by the brothers Reimar and Walter Horten, including the Horten HO 229. Recently this plane has also been called "Hitler's Stealth fighter"



World War II: German Sabatoeurs infilatration of America - British Intelligence Files



Eisenhower-John F. Kennedy Correspondences-Contact Documents - Documents dealing with the relationship between Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. The files date from March 1960 to September 1963. Earlier material mainly concern briefings and meetings between then Senator and President-elect Kennedy and President Eisenhower. Topics include North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nuclear sharing, Laos, the Congo, Algeria, disarmament, nuclear test suspension negotiations, Cuba and Latin America, United States balance of payments and the gold outflow, and the need for a balanced budget. Personal messages and congratulations are found throughout. Later material mainly covers briefings and meetings between President Kennedy and President Eisenhower. Topics include Laos, Cuba, the United States limited war capability, and the flow of gold. Correspondence concerning the restoration of Eisenhower's former military rank is also included.



President Dwight D. Eisenhower Farewell Speech Documents - The documents include memos, letters, drafts, and Eisenhower's post-presidential papers, dating from May 1959 to 1967, regarding President Eisenhower's famous farewell speech given on January 17, 1961. The speech will always be most famous for President Eisenhower's use of the term, "military-industrial complex."



Financial Industry Financial Crisis E-Mails - A collection of E-Mails collected by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission related to its investigation of the financial crisis of circa 2007. The E-Mails date from 2001 to 2011.



Tokyo Rose Broadcast Audio - This sound recording captures a "Zero Hour" Japanese broadcast to Allied forces in the South Pacific. This broadcast contains music; war news and commentary; music with "Ann the Orphan." The woman in this broadcast is one of a group of women, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American, who hosted Japanese propaganda broadcast aimed at U.S. forces in the Pacific.



9/11 - September 11, 2001 Attacks: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Tribunal Hearing Transcript - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been referred to as the "principal architect of the 9/11 attacks"



John Lennon Metropolitan Police/Scotland Yard Files - 30 pages of files from the Metropolitan Police Service – Scotland Yard covering John Lennon. The files chiefly cover the October 1968 arrest of John Lennon and Yoko Ono Cox on drug charges. The Metropolitan Police Service is the police force with jurisdiction over most of London.



Pancho Villa Capture Expedition/John J. Pershing Report - Punitive Expedition Report, the report of Major General John J. Pershing, commander of the expedition into Mexico to "capture Villa and his bandits." Also referred to as the "Pancho Villa Expedition" or the "Mexican Expedition." It was launched against the Mexican insurgent Francisco "Pancho" Villa in retaliation for Villa's attack on Columbus, New Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. The expedition took place from March 14, 1916 to February 7, 1917. The Expedition ended without the capture of Pancho Villa.



Vietnam War: Forest Fire as a Military Weapon - A June 1970 Report of study commissioned by the Department of Defense.



Korean War: Battle of Inchon - Operation Chromite X Corps After Action Report - X Corps war diary summary for Operation Chromite, 15 August to 30 September 1950. This document contains a narrative of the events of Operation Chromite as well as general staff section summaries. Includes photographs of operations. The Battle of Inchon, code named Operation Chromite, was an amphibious invasion at Inchon.



Marines Barracks Beirut 1983 Bombing Defense Department Report - On October 23, 1983, a truck full of explosives, driven by a suicide bomber, crashed through the perimeter of the compound of the U.S. contingent of the Multinational Force at Beirut International Airport, Beirut, Lebanon, penetrated the Battalion Landing Team Headquarters building and detonated. The force of the explosion destroyed the building resulting in the deaths of 241 U.S. military personnel, 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and three Army soldiers, along with sixty Americans injured. This attack produced the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II.



U.S.- Peru Civilian Aircraft Shootdowns 1995 to 2001 CIA Files - The files consist of a CIA Inspector General Report on operation Airbridge Denial. The report gives focus to the shootdown on April 20, 2001 of a civilian aircraft carrying American missionaries. The Airbridge Denial program was a counternarcotics effort with the goal of interrupting drug traffic by civil aircraft from Peru to Colombia.



Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In FBI Files - FBI Files covering the American comedy sketch television program, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Hosted by Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, the show broadcasted 140 episodes on NBC from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973.



World War II: Messerschmitt 110 Flying Manual – "Instructions for flying the Messerschmitt 110" - A 1940 concise manual produced by the British Royal Air Force on flying the German Messerschmitt 110.



Vietnam War: North/Communist Vietnam Cryptology Official History NSA Translation – A National Security Agency translation of a 1990 Vietnamese People's Army's publication, "History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Viet Nam, 1945-1975."





9/11 - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

9/11 - September 11, 2001 Attacks: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Tribunal Hearing Transcript - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been referred to as the "principal architect of the 9/11 attacks"



9-11 SEC Report: Pre-September 11, 2001 Trading Review - This 2002 Securities Exchange Commission Report was not released until April 2010. This report was mentioned in the 9-11 Commission Report, but not published with the report or with material that was subsequently released by the commission. This report summarizes the SEC review that began on September 12, 2001 covering trading activity from August 20, 2001 to September 11, 2001. The investigation covered 9.5 million securities transactions including securities and derivatives products of 103 companies in six industry groups that traded in seven different markets.



Osama Bin Laden: A Case Study - A 393 page December 1999 Sandia National Laboratories study on Osama bin Laden released in 2008. This document provides an open-source examination and analysis of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, his al Qaeda organization, and allied terrorist organizations. It includes a summary of the relevant history, the lessons learned from the 1998 African embassy bombings and from the follow-on cruise-missile strikes, the threat of future attacks using weapons of mass destruction, and a set observations, conclusions and recommendations



Taliban State Department - Defense Intelligence Agency Files - - To open use the password Customer77496 The password is case sensitive: Customer77496



AMERICAN REVOLUTION

American Revolution: Boston Massacre Eyewitness Accounts - A 1770 copy of the publishing of, "A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770. By soldiers of the XXIXth regiment; which with the XIVth regiment were then quartered there: with some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe."



American Revolution: Boston Massacre Trial/John Adams Counsel - (Trial Transcript) "The Trial of the British Soldiers, of the 29th Regiment of Foot..." (1824) and "Title: History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770" (1870)



American Revolution: Prior Papers - Authentic Papers Relative to the Dispute Between Great Britain and America - A 1777 printing of, "A collection of interesting, authentic papers: relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America; shewing [sic] the causes and progress of that misunderstanding, from 1764 to 1775," also known as the Prior Papers. Compiled by John Almon.



CELEBRITIES - FAMOUS INDIVIDUALS

John Lennon Metropolitan Police/Scotland Yard Files - 30 pages of files from the Metropolitan Police Service – Scotland Yard covering John Lennon. The files chiefly cover the October 1968 arrest of John Lennon and Yoko Ono Cox on drug charges. The Metropolitan Police Service is the police force with jurisdiction over most of London.



Michael Jackson FBI Files



Rolling Stone Magazine FBI Files



Sinclair Lewis FBI Files



Ty Cobb FBI Files



Whitney Houston FBI Files - 128 pages of FBI files related to the singer and actress Whitney Elizabeth Houston (1963-2012), released by the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act.



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CIA - CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

ARTICHOKE CIA Files - "Manchurian Candidate" ARTICHOKE CIA Files - ARTICHOKE was the CIA'S cryptonym for the study and/or use of special interrogation methods that have been known to included hypnosis, drugs and total isolation. It grew out of the Agency's Operation BLACKBIRD and was a forerunner to the Agency's MKULTRA.



CIA Congressional Relations Official CIA History



Gaddafi Rise to Power in Libya: Libyan Revolution 1969-1972 - CIA, State Department, National Security Council and White House FilesThe rise and solidifying of power in Libya by Muammar al-Qaddafi and his relationship with the United States as seen through documents from the CIA, State Department, the Henry Kissinger Papers and Nixon presidential papers.



Project Azorian - Glomar Explorer CIA Files - In 1968, a Soviet Golf class II submarine sank a few hundred miles North of Hawaii. The Hughes Glomar Explorer owned by Howard Hughes was used in a mission, code named "Project Azorian" to recover the submarine and its cryptographic equipment. Files covers the operations conception and planning of the retrieval effort and the creation of the Glomar Explorer, which raised portions of the submarine in August 1974.



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CIVIL RIGHTS

Black Panther Party Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Files - In 1956 the state of Mississippi created the State Sovereignty Commission. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission monitored the activities of people who challenged segregation. The commission's stated original objective was to "[...] protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states" from "federal encroachment." Initially it was formed to coordinate activities to portray the state and segregation in a more positive light. As the state's public relations campaign failed to dampen rising civil rights activism, the commission put people to work as a de facto intelligence organization trying to identify those citizens in Mississippi who might be working for civil rights, be allied with communists, or just tipped state surveillance if their associations, activities, and travels did not seem to conform to segregationist norms. - To open use the password Customer77496 The password is case sensitive: Customer77496



Bull Connor FBI Files - Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor was born on July 11, 1897 in Selma, Alabama. In the 1960's he was the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama. In this position he countered civil rights protest actions with fire hoses, police dogs, and even a small tank against protest marchers. His aggressive tactics lead to him becoming a symbol of hard-line Southern racism. Connor efforts backfired when the spectacle of the brutality being broadcast on national television served as one of the catalysts for major social and legal change in the South and helped in large measure to assure the passage by the United States Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.



Correta Scott King FBI Files - Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 and died on January 30, 2006. She was a writer, civil rights leader, women's movement activist and a mother of four. She is best remembered as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, Coretta Scott King continued to advocate for a diverse number of causes until her death in February 2007. To open use the password Customer77496 The password is case sensitive: Customer77496



Jesse Jackson Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Files - In 1956 the state of Mississippi created the State Sovereignty Commission. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission monitored the activities of people who challenged segregation. The commission's stated original objective was to "[...] protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states" from "federal encroachment." Initially it was formed to coordinate activities to portray the state and segregation in a more positive light. As the state's public relations campaign failed to dampen rising civil rights activism, the commission put people to work as a de facto intelligence organization trying to identify those citizens in Mississippi who might be working for civil rights, be allied with communists, or just tipped state surveillance if their associations, activities, and travels did not seem to conform to segregationist norms.



Martin Luther King Jr. Lost Assassination Files - The files include some previously lost files. The lost files are the James Earl Ray public defender files, a collection of correspondences to and from James Earl Ray, and a set of photos dealing with the custody of Ray. The others documents include a Scotland Yard report, audio excepts from the Memphis Police Department radio dispatch at the time of the assassination and the Memphis Police Department homicide report .



World War II: Port Chicago Explosion Judge Advocate General (JAG) Investigation Findings Report



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CIVIL WAR

Civil War: Harpers Ferry - John Brown Raid Congressional Report



Civil War: John Kennedy Street Confederate Papers - The content of these papers are chiefly letters from John Kennedy Street to his wife, Melinda Pace Street (1839-1899), describing marches, camp life, picket duty, sickness, hospitals, bushwhackers, religious revivals, and the formation of a Young Men's Christian Association in his brigade. He also wrote of his battlefield experiences at Shiloh, Perryville, and Murfreesboro, and of the fall of Vicksburg and skirmishing around Jackson, Mississippi, that took place at the same time. Street commented generally on the war and on southern independence and mentioned family members whom he visited during the course of his military service. There are two letters written by his daughter, Elizabeth Kennedy Street Wallace. Also included is a diary Street kept recounting his time spent in federal prisons at Vicksburg and Memphis; newspaper clippings; an 1862 photograph of Street; a contemporary hand-drawn map of the siege of Vicksburg; a poem, a calling card, and an invitation to a wedding anniversary celebration.



Civil War: William Collins Confederate Papers (1862) - Private William A. Collins of Statesville, N.C., served in Company C of the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment from March 1862 until his death in December 1862. This collection is chiefly letters that Collins sent to his family in Statesville, North Carolina.



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DISASTERS

BP - British Petroleum (and other appellations) CIA - British Government Files - CIA, British Government, and State Department files covering the interest of the once British Government controlled enterprise subsequently known as BP - British petroleum. In 1908 BP - British Petroleum was founded as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The files chiefly covers the British (AIOC/BP)-Iranian oil dispute of the 1940's and 50's, and the United State's involvement in its settlement and regime change in Iran.



SECTION 1 - CIA FILES (16 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 1 (37 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 2 (38 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 3 (40 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 4 (42 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 5 (36 MB)

SECTION 3 - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATES FILES (3 MB)

SECTION 4 - NSC REPORT (1 MB)





ESPIONAGE – INTELLIGENCE

Ethel Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony - Ethel Rosenberg grand jury testimony released on September 11, 2008.



President Dwight D. Eisenhower Aerial Intelligence Development Papers - This collection of documents focuses on the development of aerial intelligence programs and their operations. The documents date from November 1954 to September 1960.

Soviet Union: First Nuclear Weapon U.S. Intelligence Files



Vietnam War: North/Communist Vietnam Cryptology Official History NSA Translation – A National Security Agency translation of a 1990 Vietnamese People's Army's publication, "History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Viet Nam, 1945-1975."



World War II: Intelligence Activities in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation



World War II: German Code/Code-Breaking National Security Agency Journal Articles



World War II: Rescue of Mussolini - A 1943 U.S. Army Intelligence translation of Austrian and German officers' personal accounts of the assignment from Hitler to rescue Mussolini in the summer of 1943. Topics includes meeting with Hitler, discovery and reconnaissance of Mussolini's hideout, planning the rescue operation, and the actual rescue events. - To open use the password Customer77496 The password is case sensitive: Customer77496



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FBI - FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIONS

Aryn Rand FBI Files



Bull Connor FBI Files - Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor was born on July 11, 1897 in Selma, Alabama. In the 1960's he was the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama. In this position he countered civil rights protest actions with fire hoses, police dogs, and even a small tank against protest marchers. His aggressive tactics lead to him becoming a symbol of hard-line Southern racism. Connor efforts backfired when the spectacle of the brutality being broadcast on national television served as one of the catalysts for major social and legal change in the South and helped in large measure to assure the passage by the United States Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.



Correta Scott King FBI Files - Coretta Scott King was born on April 27, 1927 and died on January 30, 2006. She was a writer, civil rights leader, women's movement activist and a mother of four. She is best remembered as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, Coretta Scott King continued to advocate for a diverse number of causes until her death in February 2007. To open use the password Customer77496 The password is case sensitive: Customer77496



Edward M. Kennedy FBI File - 2125 pages of FBI files. The use of Acrobat Reader 9.0 or later is recommend for this title.



FBI Confidential Files Room Maintenance – FBI Files - FBI files covering the Bureau's "Special File Room." Information about the maintaining of files which the Bureau considered the most sensitive and in need of special handling. The files date from 1948 to 1973.



Franklin D. Roosevelt Assassination Attempt FBI Files - To open use the password Customer77496. Joseph Zangara (alias Guissepi Zangara) was an Italian immigrant who attempted to assassinate president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Zangara had a strong hatred towards all persons in positions of authority. On February 15, 1933, Zangara attended a speech given by Roosevelt at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida. When Roosevelt finished his talk and was preparing to leave, Zangara pulled out a pistol and opened fire. A bystander deflected the assassin's aim by pushing his arm into the air. Zangara wounded five people who had been near the president-elect, two of them seriously. Most critically injured was Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was struck by the bullet in the chest which then lodged in his spine. Zangara was immediately charged with four counts of attempted murder. He was not charged initially with the wounding of Cermak, as authorities waited to see if the mayor's wounds would prove fatal. The State charged Zangara for attempting to murder Franklin Roosevelt, Russell Caldwell, Margaret Kruise, and William Sinnott. Zangara was found guilty on each count and sentenced to four consecutive twenty-year terms. On March 6, Mayor Cermak died from complications stemming from the shooting. The same day, Zangara was indicted by a grand jury and charged with first degree murder in the death of Cermak. His trial began on March 9 and ended on March 11 with a guilty verdict and a death sentence. Zangara was transported to the Florida State Prison at Raiford, where he was executed on March 20, 1933 - To open use the password Customer77496 The password is case sensitive: Customer77496



Michael Jackson FBI Files



Nixon Administration Wiretaps on Journalists FBI Files - FBI Files covering the FBI investigation of wiretaps on the phones of journalists, placed by the FBI at the request of the Nixon Administration.



Rolling Stone Magazine FBI Files



Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In FBI Files - FBI Files covering the American comedy sketch television program, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Hosted by Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, the show broadcasted 140 episodes on NBC from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973.



Sinclair Lewis FBI Files



Ty Cobb FBI Files



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FINANCIAL

Financial Industry Financial Crisis E-Mails - A collection of E-Mails collected by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission related to its investigation of the financial crisis of circa 2007. The E-Mails date from 2001 to 2011.



KOREAN WAR

Korean War: Battle of Inchon - Operation Chromite X Corps After Action Report - X Corps war diary summary for Operation Chromite, 15 August to 30 September 1950. This document contains a narrative of the events of Operation Chromite as well as general staff section summaries. Includes photographs of operations. The Battle of Inchon, code named Operation Chromite, was an amphibious invasion at Inchon.



Korean War: Eighth Army Psychological Warfare - Report on the psychological warfare conducted by the Eighth Army units in Korea, 25 June 1950 thru 27 July 1953.



Korean War Infantry Commanding Officer Narratives



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LOCAL HISTORY

Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park (1870)







MEDICAL

1976 Swine Flu Outbreak Ford Administration Files - In early February 1976, two recruits stationed at Fort Dix in New Jersey, had influenza like illness. One of the soldiers died. Isolates of virus taken from them included A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1n1), a strain similar to the virus believed at the time to be the cause of the 1918 pandemic, commonly known as swine flu. Serologic studies at Fort Dix suggested that fewer than 200 soldiers had been infected and that person-to-person transmission had occurred. At the urging of the Center for Disease Control and several well-known and respected scientists, the Ford administration moved quickly to initiate a program to inoculate every American against this perceived threat. After approximately 40 million Americans were vaccinated fears of the possibility of severe side effects from the vaccine emerged. Some blamed the vaccine for the deaths of Thirty-two people who received the swine flu vaccine from Guillain-Barre Syndrome. The vaccination program was officially halted on December 16, 1976



ARTICHOKE CIA Files - "Manchurian Candidate" ARTICHOKE CIA Files - ARTICHOKE was the CIA'S cryptonym for the study and/or use of special interrogation methods that have been known to included hypnosis, drugs and total isolation. It grew out of the Agency's Operation BLACKBIRD and was a forerunner to the Agency's MKULTRA.







MILITARY OPERATIONS

Iraq War Prelude Documents - A collection of documents highlighting the development of the American and British government's case for going to war against Iraq.



Marines Barracks Beirut 1983 Bombing Defense Department Report - On October 23, 1983, a truck full of explosives, driven by a suicide bomber, crashed through the perimeter of the compound of the U.S. contingent of the Multinational Force at Beirut International Airport, Beirut, Lebanon, penetrated the Battalion Landing Team Headquarters building and detonated. The force of the explosion destroyed the building resulting in the deaths of 241 U.S. military personnel, 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and three Army soldiers, along with sixty Americans injured. This attack produced the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II.



Pancho Villa Capture Expedition/John J. Pershing Report - Punitive Expedition Report, the report of Major General John J. Pershing, commander of the expedition into Mexico to "capture Villa and his bandits." Also referred to as the "Pancho Villa Expedition" or the "Mexican Expedition." It was launched against the Mexican insurgent Francisco "Pancho" Villa in retaliation for Villa's attack on Columbus, New Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. The expedition took place from March 14, 1916 to February 7, 1917. The Expedition ended without the capture of Pancho Villa.



Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia CIA Situation Reports



U.S.- Peru Civilian Aircraft Shootdowns 1995 to 2001 CIA Files - The files consist of a CIA Inspector General Report on operation Airbridge Denial. The report gives focus to the shootdown on April 20, 2001 of a civilian aircraft carrying American missionaries. The Airbridge Denial program was a counternarcotics effort with the goal of interrupting drug traffic by civil aircraft from Peru to Colombia

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POLITICS

ACORN FBI Files - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

Hartford, Connecticut FBI Bureau File Phoenix, Arizona FBI Bureau File

St. Louis, Missouri FBI Bureau File Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File



Barack Obama Department of Defense Correspondences - Coresspondences between Senator Barack Obama and the Department of Defense, dating from March 3, 2005 to February 8, 2008.



BP - British Petroleum (and other appellations) CIA - British Government Files - CIA, British Government, and State Department files covering the interest of the once British Government controlled enterprise subsequently known as BP - British petroleum. In 1908 BP - British Petroleum was founded as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The files chiefly covers the British (AIOC/BP)-Iranian oil dispute of the 1940's and 50's, and the United State's involvement in its settlement and regime change in Iran.



SECTION 1 - CIA FILES (16 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 1 (37 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 2 (38 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 3 (40 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 4 (42 MB)

SECTION 2 - BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES PART 5 (36 MB)

SECTION 3 - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATES FILES (3 MB)

SECTION 4 - NSC REPORT (1 MB)



Edward M. Kennedy FBI File - 2125 pages of FBI files. The use of Acrobat Reader 9.0 or later is recommend for this title.



Elena Kagan Documents - Documents related to Supreme Court Nominee Solicitor General Elena Kagan



Financial Industry Financial Crisis E-Mails - A collection of E-Mails collected by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission related to its investigation of the financial crisis of circa 2007. The E-Mails date from 2001 to 2011.



Gaddafi Rise to Power in Libya: Libyan Revolution 1969-1972 - CIA, State Department, National Security Council and White House FilesThe rise and solidifying of power in Libya by Muammar al-Qaddafi and his relationship with the United States as seen through documents from the CIA, State Department, the Henry Kissinger Papers and Nixon presidential papers.



Iranian Nuclear Program Congressional Research Service Reports



Iraq War Prelude Documents - A collection of documents highlighting the development of the American and British government's case for going to war against Iraq.



Mark Felt - "Deep Throat" FBI Files - President Richard Nixon Audio Tapes



Nixon Administration Wiretaps on Journalists FBI Files - FBI Files covering the FBI investigation of wiretaps on the phones of journalists, placed by the FBI at the request of the Nixon Administration.



President Richard Nixon - Pat Buchanan Papers



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PRESIDENTS – LEADERS

Barack Obama Department of Defense Correspondences - Coresspondences between Senator Barack Obama and the Department of Defense, dating from March 3, 2005 to February 8, 2008.



Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Documents - A selection of King assassination documents. The files include some previously lost files. The lost files are the James Earl Ray public defender files, a collection of correspondences to and from James Earl Ray, and a set of photos dealing with the custody of Ray. The other documents include a Scotland Yard report, audio excepts from the Memphis Police Department radio dispatch at the time of the assassination and the Memphis Police Department homicide report .



Eisenhower-John F. Kennedy Correspondences-Contact Documents - Documents dealing with the relationship between Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. The files date from March 1960 to September 1963. Earlier material mainly concern briefings and meetings between then Senator and President-Elect Kennedy and President Eisenhower. Topics include North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nuclear sharing, Laos, the Congo, Algeria, disarmament, nuclear test suspension negotiations, Cuba and Latin America, United States balance of payments and the gold outflow, and the need for a balanced budget. Personal messages and congratulations are found throughout. Later material mainly covers briefings and meetings between President Kennedy and President Eisenhower. Topics include Laos, Cuba, the United States limited war capability, and the flow of gold. Correspondence concerning the restoration of Eisenhower's former military rank is also included.



Franklin D. Roosevelt Assassination Attempt FBI Files - To open use the password Customer77496. Joseph Zangara (alias Guissepi Zangara) was an Italian immigrant who attempted to assassinate president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Zangara had a strong hatred towards all persons in positions of authority. On February 15, 1933, Zangara attended a speech given by Roosevelt at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida. When Roosevelt finished his talk and was preparing to leave, Zangara pulled out a pistol and opened fire. A bystander deflected the assassin's aim by pushing his arm into the air. Zangara wounded five people who had been near the president-elect, two of them seriously. Most critically injured was Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was struck by the bullet in the chest which then lodged in his spine. Zangara was immediately charged with four counts of attempted murder. He was not charged initially with the wounding of Cermak, as authorities waited to see if the mayor's wounds would prove fatal. The State charged Zangara for attempting to murder Franklin Roosevelt, Russell Caldwell, Margaret Kruise, and William Sinnott. Zangara was found guilty on each count and sentenced to four consecutive twenty-year terms. On March 6, Mayor Cermak died from complications stemming from the shooting. The same day, Zangara was indicted by a grand jury and charged with first degree murder in the death of Cermak. His trial began on March 9 and ended on March 11 with a guilty verdict and a death sentence. Zangara was transported to the Florida State Prison at Raiford, where he was executed on March 20, 1933 - To open use the password Customer77496 The password is case sensitive: Customer77496

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Gaddafi Rise to Power in Libya: Libyan Revolution 1969-1972 - CIA, State Department, National Security Council and White House FilesThe rise and solidifying of power in Libya by Muammar al-Qaddafi and his relationship with the United States as seen through documents from the CIA, State Department, the Henry Kissinger Papers and Nixon presidential papers.



Iraq War Prelude Documents - A collection of documents highlighting the development of the American and British government's case for going to war against Iraq.



John Kennedy Assassination - Lee Harvey Oswald KGB Files - This collection is a set of KGB documents given to President Bill Clinton in 1999 by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The files date from 1959 when Lee Harvey Oswald sought defection to the Soviet Union. Each original Russian language KGB document is accompanied by a translation later made by the United States Department of State.



John Hay/Abraham Lincoln Letter - Shortly after the death of Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Herndon began gathering material for a biography of his former law partner. This letter is a reply from John Hay, who at the age of 22, became Abraham Lincoln's private secretary after his election as President of the United States. Hay, though technically a clerk in the Interior Department served as Lincoln's secretary until 1864. He lived in the northeast corner bedroom on the second floor of the White House. Hay was present when Lincoln died after being shot at Ford's Theatre. Hay's letter of 5 September 1866 discusses Lincoln's daily life in the White House.



Mark Felt - "Deep Throat" FBI Files - President Richard Nixon Audio Tapes



Nixon Administration Wiretaps on Journalists FBI Files - FBI Files covering the FBI investigation of wiretaps on the phones of journalists, placed by the FBI at the request of the Nixon Administration.



Napoleon Bonaparte - William Warden Exile Letters-Journal - The 1816 publishing of "Letters Written on Board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland and Saint Helena"



President Dwight D. Eisenhower Farewell Speech Documents - The documents include memos, letters, drafts, and Eisenhower's post-presidential papers, dating from May 1959 to 1967, regarding President Eisenhower's famous farewell speech given on January 17, 1961.The speech will always be most famous for President Eisenhower's use ofmthe term, "military-industrial complex."



President Richard Nixon - Pat Buchanan Papers



Ronald Reagan Assassination Attempt Secret Service Audio - United States Secret Service command post radio traffic audio and transcript of March 30, 1981 shooting of President Ronald Reagan



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SLAVERY

African-American Slavery: California Fugitive Slave Case: Stovall v. Archy - Legal papers from the only known Federal Fugitive Slave case tried in California.



African-American Slavery - District of Columbia Slave Codes - Slavery in the United States was governed by an extensive body of law developed from the 1640s to the 1860s. Every slave state had its own slave code and body of court decisions. All slave codes made slavery a permanent condition, inherited through the mother, and defined slaves as property, usually in the same terms as those applied to real estate. Slaves, being property, could not own property or be a party to a contract. Since marriage is a form of contract, no slave marriage had any legal standing. All codes also had sections regulating free blacks, who were still subject to controls on their movements and employment and were often required to leave the state after emancipation. When the District of Columbia was established in 1800, the laws of Maryland, including its slave laws, remained in force. Additional laws on slavery and free blacks were then made by the District. By Southern standards its slave codes were moderate. Slaves were permitted to hire out their services and to live apart from their masters. Free blacks were permitted to live in the city and to operate private schools. By 1860 the District of Columbia was home to 11,131 free blacks and 3,185 slaves.



African-American Slavery New England - Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society Annual Reports - Annual Reports:1833, 1834, 1836-1853 - The New England Anti-Slavery was formed by William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator, in 1831. In 1835 the group reorganized as the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society



Election of 1858 - Slavery Political Cartoons



Slave Ship Arthur 1677 Journal - A journal kept by the ships factor George Hingston describing the voyage of the Arthur commanded by Robert Doegood, from London to New Calabar River (Nigeria) to purchase Africans and then to Barbados where the Africans were sold.



Slave Ship Journal: Voyages of the Slavers St. John and Arms of Amsterdam - An 1867 publishing of the translations of the journals of the slave ships the St. John and Arms of Amsterdam



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TERRORISM

American Ambassadors Killed (1968 - 1976) CIA and State Department Files. - CIA and State Department Documents related to the murders of American Ambassadors killed during the performance for their duties, 1968 to 1976.



IRA - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Office Papers



Marines Barracks Beirut 1983 Bombing Defense Department Report - On October 23, 1983, a truck full of explosives, driven by a suicide bomber, crashed through the perimeter of the compound of the U.S. contingent of the Multinational Force at Beirut International Airport, Beirut, Lebanon, penetrated the Battalion Landing Team Headquarters building and detonated. The force of the explosion destroyed the building resulting in the deaths of 241 U.S. military personnel, 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and three Army soldiers, along with sixty Americans injured. This attack produced the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II.



Mumbai Terrorist Attacks 2008 India Ministry of External Affairs Dossier



Osama Bin Laden: A Case Study - A 393 page December 1999 Sandia National Laboratories study on Osama bin Laden released in 2008. This document provides an open-source examination and analysis of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, his al Qaeda organization, and allied terrorist organizations. It includes a summary of the relevant history, the lessons learned from the 1998 African embassy bombings and from the follow-on cruise-missile strikes, the threat of future attacks using weapons of mass destruction, and a set observations, conclusions and recommendations

Taliban State Department - Defense Intelligence Agency Files - - To open use the password Customer77496 The password is case sensitive: Customer77496



World War II: German Sabatoeurs infilatration of America - British Intelligence Files



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VIETNAM WAR

John MCCain Code of Conduct - The report, "The Code of Conduct and the Vietnam War," by John S McCain, Commander United States Navy, an April 8, 1974, individual research project conducted by John S. McCain, Commander, United States Navy, at the National War College. The purpose of this paper was to review the Code of Conduct in the perspective of the Vietnam prisoner of war experience and to make recommendations for changes to the code itself and to the training and indoctrination of the members of the Armed Forces in the Code of Conduct.



John McCain POW CIA - DOD Files - 73 pages of CIA and Department of Defense documents and transcriptions, of foreign broadcasts, from 1967 to 1973, relating to John McCain's captivity in North Vietnam



John McCain Related CIA Treatment of American POWs CIA Files - Selected CIA files dating from 1966 to 1971. The files concern the treatment of American POWs. The files cover: The exploitation of U.S. POWs for propaganda purposes. Experiences of American pilots captured in Vietnam. Intelligence on Hoa Lo Prison, also known as Hanoi Hilton. Lessons used in the indoctrination of American POWs. North Vietnamese policy toward American POWs. The Viet Cong practices involving the taking of POWs. The air raids that took place in and around Hanoi during the period of time of McCain's last sortie. The use of POWs for propaganda broadcasts. The Viet Cong prison system for Vietnamese under their detention.



Vietnam War: Cedar Falls-Junction City A Turning Point - This monograph, written in 1974, contains specific details on the Operations Cedar Falls and Junction City which took place during the first five months of 1967 and were the first multidivisional operations in Vietnam to be conducted according to a preconceived plan.



Vietnam War: Forest Fire as a Military Weapon - A June 1970 Report of study commissioned by the Department of Defense.



Vietnam War: Hole Hunting Manual



Vietnam War: Junk Bluebook



Vietnam War: National Catalog of PSYOPS Materials - This 1969 catalog published by the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office, Field Development Division contains a complete listing of PSYOP materials available to personnel in Vietnam, descriptions of products available from JUSPAO or the four in-country PSYOP battalions. Listing includes images of the items and English translation. Types of products include leaflets, handouts, stationery, posters, slogans, booklets, tape recordings, and miscellaneous items.



Vietnam War: North/Communist Vietnam Cryptology Official History NSA Translation – A National Security Agency translation of a 1990 Vietnamese People's Army's publication, "History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Viet Nam, 1945-1975."



Vietnam War: Rolling Thunder Target Planning and Strike Data



Vietnam War: Saigon Evacuation After Action Report



Vietnam War: Seven Firefights in Vietnam - These accounts of fighting in Vietnam are based on official U.S. Army records, daily journals, journal files, after action reports, interviews conducted soon after the events by historical officers in Vietnam, and upon interviews and correspondence conducted later by the authors themselves. Contents of the paper included the fight at Ia Drang, 14-16 November 1965; convoy ambush on Highway 1, 21 November 1966; ambush at Phuoc An, 18 June 1967; fight along the Rach Ba Rai, 15 September 1967; three companies at Dak To, 6 November 1967; Battle of Lang Vei, 7 February 1968; and gunship mission, 5 May 1968.



Vietnam War: Vietnamese Village 1970 Handbook for Advisors - Abstract: This handbook is designed to inform advisors at all levels of the structure and nature of the Vietnamese village. It covers the traditional village leadership, village government, village economy, village security, and the advisory role.



Vietnam War: Village Security Planning Guide for District and Mobile Advisory Teams (1970) - The purpose of this document was to provide guidance in establishing a coordinated defense system for villages and hamlets.



Vietnam War: Volume 1 (Red Baron) Air-to-Air Encounters Southeast Asia - A 1305 page compilation of all available data on F-4 and F-8 air-to-air encounters between January 1965 and 1 March 1967. Includes illustrated re-enactments.



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WORLD WAR I

World War I: British War Cabinet Key Events - Events covered include: Battle of the Somme, Battle of Arras, Third Battle of Ypres, Battle of Cambrai, German offensives, Battle of Amiens and the final offensives



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