Welcome to The Black Vault Document Archive
You’ve stumbled upon the largest privately run online repository of declassified government documents anywhere in the world. With more than 3 MILLION pages of documents to read, on nearly every government secret imaginable, The Black Vault is known worldwide for getting down to the truth… and nothing but.
Every page, photo and video you see below in this "FOIA Document Archive" was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or through other means of accessing U.S. government public information.
Begun in 1996, at the age of 15, John Greenewald, Jr., began hammering the U.S. Government with FOIA requests to obtain information. The Black Vault is the result of that more than two decade effort. Enjoy!
In a newly released batch of internal U.S. Navy emails, obtained by The Black Vault through a Freedom of Information…
(Click here to jump directly to the search engine) In January 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14176,…
This was originally published on November 7, 2023. The article has been left unchanged, but additional documents have been added…
A newly released set of FBI records obtained by The Black Vault through a May 7, 2025, Freedom of Information…
A document released from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by The Black…
On December 2, 2024, the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its final report, “After Action Review…
Operation Northwoods was a covert plan proposed in 1962 by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of…