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Getting Started
False Flags
Popular Media
9/11
Federal Reserve
Globalization
Iraq
Israel
Torture
Neocons
Mind Control
Murders? JFK, Lennon, others
The Economy
Government Projects
US Terrorism
Groups
Bilderberg
CFR
Trilateral Commission
People Watch
Ann Coulter
Sarah Palin
Rush Limbaugh
Spirituality
Buddhist
Christianity
Witchcraft
The Catholics
Company Watch
Monsanto
Documentaries
The Obama Deception
Architects of Control
Loose Change
Zeitqeist
*Ring of Power*
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Government Links and Documents Declassified by Individual Agencies
In response to Executive Order 12958, discussed above, many agencies have set up their own declassified documents access, among them:
A complete list of the departments and agencies with FOIA web sites.
Freedom of Information Act
Declassified materials still must be requested through the Freedom of Information Act. Some of the sites above have information about how to request documents through the FOIA. Two good sites from government sources are:
There are also several non-government sites which explain how to use the FOIA. Among them:
The FOIA does not apply to the President, Vice President, Senators or members of the House of Representatives; however, the Presidential Records Act of 1978 does make the documentary materials of former Presidents subject to the FOIA and all Presidential papers and documents generated after Jan. 20, 1981, will be available under the framework of the FOIA.
Other Sources
The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.
The National Security Archive, a nonprofit research institute, collects, organizes and creates finding aids and retrieval systems for unclassified and declassified materials obtained from public and private sources. The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository for these materials. Over the past eleven years, the Archive has become the world's largest non-governmental library of declassified documents. The Archive is designed to apply the latest in computerized indexing technology to the massive amount of material already released by the U.S. government on international affairs, make them accessible to researchers and the public, and go beyond that base to build comprehensive collections of documents on specific topics of greatest interest to scholars and the public.
TRAC, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse is a data gathering, research and distribution organization associated with Syracuse University.. It provides comprehensive information about the activities of federal enforcement and regulatory agencies, based on masses of detailed data obtained from federal agencies through the systematic and informed use of the Freedom on Information Act. The information is then submitted to a variety of sophisticated statistical techniques, checked, verified, and data from one agency compared against the others. There are separate TRAC web sites describing the enforcement activities and staffing patterns of the FBI, the IRS, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is engaged in analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy for global security. A privately-funded non-profit policy organization whose Board of Sponsors includes over 55 American Nobel Laureates, FAS was founded as the Federation of Atomic Scientists in 1945 by members of the Manhattan Project who produced the first atomic bomb. The FAS web site is a fascinating one to explore. Of particular interest are:
- The Project on Government Secrecy which works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight. Through research, advocacy, and public education, the Project on Government Secrecy works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight. The Project supports journalists and fosters enhanced public awareness of secrecy issues through publication of the Secrecy & Government Bulletin. Currently, the Project is working in particular towards a favorable resolution of the various secrecy reform initiatives and their successful implementation.
- The Intelligence Resource Program has many interesting programs including one which, using data from various sources, reports Intelligence Agency Budget and Personnel, not publicly acknowledged or available. One page from this site that you should visit is the Official and Model Intelligence Agency Homepages. When you get there, click on the official page of the Special Collection Service for an i nteresting experience.
- CIA Fronts is a listing of CIA proprietary "front" operations.
The Center for International Policy, Intelligence Reform Program is an independent effort to examine and reform the intelligence community, with a particular emphasis on covert operations.
Loyola College's Department of Political Science provides Strategic Intelligence and Military Intelligence web pages with links to organizations involved in intelligence activities, as well as other historical and current information and links. There are many electronic journals dealing with secrecy, the intelligence community and related issues and this site also has a good list of them.
The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to disseminate new information and perspectives on Cold War history emerging from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side"-- the former Communist bloc.
The Center for Responsive Politics has several searchable databases, including: the Lobbyist Database, Incumbent Travel Database, Federal Campaign Contributions, Foreign Agents Registration Act Report, White House Coffee and Sleepover Database, White House Inaugural Contributors List, Business Roundtable Soft Money Database, Tobacco Industry Campaign Contributions, 1979-present. .
Secret No More is a database and subject guide to thousands of FBI files, most never seen outside the FBI.
Big Brother Incorporated is a report on the international trade in surveillance technology and its links to the arms industry.
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