Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Collection

The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) Quarterly Review Documents

The FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) issues a "quarterly review" which "aims to educate employees about the Bureau's standards…

March 15, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) RIDS “Dead List”

Background The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) processes thousands of requests each year. When requesting a file on a certain…

January 7, 2023

Special Agent Personnel Incident Review, Office of Program Evaluations and Audits, January 1983

These records were provided by the family of anthologist and transparency activist Russ Kick, from his papers, facilitated by the generous…

September 24, 2022

FBI Files: Serial Killers

A serial killer is, traditionally, a person who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than…

September 16, 2022

FBI Executives’ Conference – FBI File 66-HQ-2554 -1930s-1990s

Little known and scarcely mentioned outside the FBI, the Executives’ Conference materials span decades, from 1936 to the 1990s, and…

September 4, 2022

FBI Files on Cryptography – FBI File #80-HQ-612

Background Before the modern era, cryptography was concerned solely with message confidentiality (i.e., encryption)—conversion of messages from a comprehensible form…

August 4, 2022

Alleged Missing Civil War Gold in Dents Run, Elk County, Pennsylvania

In May of 2022, the FBI began releasing records about the alleged missing Civil War gold, which was rumored to…

May 30, 2022

FBI Files on Charles Schulz

These records were provided by the family of anthologist and transparency activist Russ Kick, from his papers, facilitated by the generous…

February 18, 2022

FBI Files on John DeLorean

These records were provided by the family of anthologist and transparency activist Russ Kick, from his papers, facilitated by the generous…

January 21, 2022

FBI File: Contacts Between Representatives of the Soviet Union and Members or Staff Personnel of the United States Congress, 1964-1972

The following is FBI File 105-HQ-229897, which deals with "Contacts Between Representatives of the Soviet Union and Members or Staff…

January 17, 2022