Background This file was obtained by The Black Vault from the FBI, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). It references numerous instances from 1944 through 1996, wherein the FBI destroyed records and/or material evidence. All portions of the file that have been released to The Black Vault, are available below. I have learned that there are at least 6,500+ more pages in the file. I am seeking those, and also going after pages beyond that, should they exist. Getting the files below has taken years, and they have ignored the scope of my request which should have yielded the…
Author: John Greenewald
On December 1, 2021, Rep. Tim Burchett gave a “5 minute speech” on the house floor. Here is what he had to say about the UFO issue, along with the letter he sent to the DoD the same day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2PF5IFBsUU Rep. Burchett’s Letter to the DoD
Background The United States President’s Commission on CIA Activities within the United States was set up under President Gerald Ford in 1975 to investigate the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies within the United States. The commission was led by the Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, and is sometimes referred to as the Rockefeller Commission. The commission was created in response to a December 1974 report in The New York Times that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. The commission issued a single report in 1975, touching upon…
For about twenty years, The Black Vault has hosted thousands of UFO related CIA files and disseminated them to the public. Over the years, numerous “Mandatory Declassification Review” or MDR cases have been filed based on these specific records. These cases mandate the CIA to go back to what they previously released, and have another look to see if previously redacted lines, paragraphs or pages can be released. The goal is the get these redactions lifted once and for all, and more of the document released to the public for all to see. Although many success stories have come about…
The following is FBI File HQ 100-138754, relating to the “Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry” or COMPIC, primarily (thus far) with records from the 1940s. The request is still open, however, the released pages that have come out already are archived below. Document Archive FBI File: Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry [3,509 Pages, 2.31GB] – NOTE: This file is more than 2.3 GIGABYTES and is a searchable .pdf to the best of the OCR’s ability to read these old documents. It is recommended you right-click and press “save as” to download it to your computer, rather…