Department of Defense Collection

Newly Released 1963 Report Sheds Light on Nuclear Era Urban Defense Strategies

After nearly a decade of waiting, The Black Vault has successfully acquired a document through a Freedom of Information Act…

April 12, 2024

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 on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Background Here is FBI File 62-HQ-80750, entitled: Central Intelligence Agency. There were a number of sections missing in my initial FOIA…

August 8, 2018

DoD Instruction 0-3600.02 “Information Operations (IO) Security Classification Guidance,” November 28, 2005

Background This Instruction: 1.1 . Reissues reference (a) to implement policy, assign responsibilities, and prescribe guidance on the classification methodology…

November 1, 2016

Naval Post Grad Thesis: Is Change Required? An Economic Case Study of the Rise and Fall of Empires

The United States of America is for all practical purposes, an empire. It has territories separated by bodies of water…

March 3, 2015

Documents Released to Former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his book Known and Unknown

While writing his book Known and Unknown, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld got the Department of Defense to declassify…

March 3, 2015

DoD Document Collections

Background The following 18 CD-ROMs were created by the DoD, when they transferred their FOIA Reading Room to their online…

February 25, 2015