History

FBI File: No Fly List Criteria and Training Material, Post 9/11

The following is an attempt to get the FBI records on the No Fly List Criteria and Training Material, Post…

January 5, 2022

FBI File: Labor Racketeering, April 1960

This monograph is the first in a series of general studies, dealing-with labor racketeering. This monograph highlights the extent and…

January 5, 2022

The FBI Stay-Behind Special Agent Program in Alaska

Background Between 1950 and 1951, the FBI was involved in planning for and beginning to implement a program to identify…

December 14, 2021

FBI File: 66-HQ-3286, Destruction of Bureau Records, 1944-1996

Background This file was obtained by The Black Vault from the FBI, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). It…

December 2, 2021

FBI File on the Rockefeller Commission

Background The United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States was set up under President Gerald Ford…

December 1, 2021

FBI File: Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry, 1940s era (HQ 100-138754)

The following is FBI File HQ 100-138754, relating to the "Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry" or COMPIC, primarily…

November 30, 2021

FBI File Collection on J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the…

November 9, 2021

The Maya Astronomical Computer, by Charles H. Lacombe and [REDACTED], Winter 1977

This paper presents evidence of a visual astronomical computer which would have enabled Maya astronomer-priests to accomplish complex astronomical calculations…

October 1, 2021

The Donald Rumsfeld “Snowflake” Collection

This collection comprises of more than 60,000 pages of records often referred to as "snowflakes." These are generally one-page memos,…

August 2, 2021

FBI Files: Sports Figures

Background The following is a list of FBI files on different sports figures throughout the decades.  Declassified Sports Figure FBI…

July 14, 2021