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FOIA Document Archive
The Black Vault Research Center
In September of 2012, The Black Vault morphed its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) document archive, into a massive "Research Center" to encompass the growing archive of visual media including photographs and video. You will see Photo and Video Archives begin appearing throughout the Research Center to aid you in your research - and offer an additional visual tool for your research.
The following categories are available, which currently
house 653,168 Pages of FOIA Documents
along with THOUSANDS of Photographs and Videos.
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Although "advanced" could be debatable, this section was created to house documents on different, "advanced" technology, of its time... both new and a bit a dated!
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This section includes documents relating to classified top secret aviation, historical military aircraft, Air Force History and much more.
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This section includes documents pertaining to Biological and Chemical weapons. Learn about deadly agents that have been tested and are part of the military's arsenal.
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The following are documents relating to cloning.
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The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s.
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Not many citizens realize that their congress(wo)man work very hard in their respective districts. An even smaller number understand that records of correspondence between Congressman and Senators are available under the FOIA.
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Cryptology/Cryptography is the science of concealing a message's meaning rather than its existence. It can be subdivided into codes and ciphers. Codes are based on linguistic entities of variable character length such as syllables, words and phrases.
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This category contains multiple documents on different defense issues. Breaches of White House airspace, Espionage, POWs, and much more is all archived in this category.
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The Department of Defense, in Washington, D.C., has a reading room where you can enter to access documents previously released under the Freedom of Information Act. There are 18 CDs in total, and contain thousands of pages of material on various subjects.
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The following documents relate to the elections in the United States Electoral Process. The documents are broken down by year of document.
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This section includes The Black Vault's massive oil spill research center, along with other environmental & global issues.
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It is no secret that the FBI, and other brances of the government, held files on many celebrities, sports players, criminals, groups and every day people. This category contains a large list of files that have been declassified.
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The United States Army has a long list of military field manuals that have been released to the public. This category contains a list of those manuals.
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The Freedom of Information Act is a powerful tool. This category holds documents pertaining to the law and valuable FOIA case logs. Also, a category for documents relating to research tools, guides for documents, and other useful publications.
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To take a peek into the inner workings of being employed by the U.S. Government, I began filing FOIA requests for employee manuals and/or handbooks. This section breaks down by agency the material I have received.
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This section archives documents relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both the current conflicts, and the previous Gulf War.
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This category contains documents from throughout the J.F.K. era. This includes his assassination records, many on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and more.
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Although never widely circulated by the military or commercial industries, but there have been many accidents both on land, on sea, and in the air. Archived here are incidents and relevent documents that are not widely shown in the mainstream media.
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Mind control is a broad range of psychological tactics able to subvert an individual's control of his own thinking, behavior, emotions, or decisions. The U.S. military and government put in time and money to persue this tactic.
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This category contains misc. documents that have not yet been categorized.
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The National Security Agency (NSA) has published, and continues to publish, multiple intelligence publications since it's inception. Archived here are the ones that have been declassified and released.
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This category contains a list of documents pertaining to the New World Order.
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This section contains a list of declassified documents pertaining to nuclear weapons.
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During its 23-year history, OTA provided Congressional members and committees with analyses of the scientific and technological issues. This section contains their entire collection of reports.
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Parapsychology is the study of ostensibly paranormal psychological phenomena.
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Each year, when a Presidential candidate is named, they must file public financial disclosure statements about their financial holidings and securities to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE).
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Psychological Operations are techniques used by military and police forces to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, and behavior. This sections holds documents pertaining to PsyOps.
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Remote Viewing (RV), refers to the attempt to gather information about a distant or unseen target using paranormal means or extra-sensory perception. This sections holds documents on Remote Viewing.
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This collection of material by and about Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and Ambassador to Iran comprises the largest single release of Helms-related information to date.
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The exploration of space has had an amazing history. Archived in this section is a glimpse of that very important era.
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Many spy satellites are above are heads, and we never hear about them. This sections holds some of the records released about these prying eyes.
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Since 9/11, the threat of terrorism has been severe. This section archives documents released regarding terrorism.
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One of the tasks of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is to receive complaints from viewers against TV shows currently airing on network and cable channels.
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In this category, you will find documents relating to the U.S. financial system, and the U.S. economy.
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UFOs intrigue the world, as they have existed for decades, and remain unexplained. This category offers a glimpse into the most heavily classified records on UFOs.
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This section archives documents that pertain to the Vietnam era.
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This category contains documents relating to different types of weapons within the U.S. Military's arsenal.
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Weather modification or control is the act of manipulating or altering certain aspects of the environment to produce desirable changes in weather. Also contained in this archive are documents relating to other weather phenomena such as Ball Lightning.
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This category archives documents pertaining to World War I.
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This section archives documents pertaining to World War II.
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