The archive

Thirteen collections. One search box.

Declassified releases, congressional investigations and FOIA productions, indexed as text so they can be searched rather than scrolled. Every collection below states who released it and what it cannot answer.

1,329,108indexed records
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The DOJ Epstein release1,284,556The full Justice Department release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, indexed page by page so it can actually be searched rather than scrolled.Clinton State Dept. emails35,566The State Department’s FOIA production, mirrored so the whole set can be enumerated and searched rather than paged through a records portal.Epstein estate emails5,011Correspondence released by the House Oversight Committee, converted to searchable text by volunteers.CIA MKULTRA files1,460The CIA’s own surviving MKULTRA records, mirrored from image-only scans and converted to text so they can be searched.The Church Committee815The United States Senate investigating the CIA and the FBI, with subpoena power and testimony under oath.9/11 records509The 9/11 Commission and its staff statements, the congressional Joint Inquiry, NIST’s technical reports, and the Justice Department Inspector General review.The Russia investigations397Four separate investigations of the same events, which is unusual enough to be useful: the Special Counsel’s report, the DOJ Inspector General on the Carter Page FISA applications, Special Counsel Durham on how the investigation was opened, and all five volumes of the Senate Intelligence Committee report.The Warren Commission202The Warren Commission’s report on the assassination of President Kennedy, indexed and searchable to the page.January 6 records164The Select Committee’s final report, together with the Justice Department Inspector General’s review of FBI confidential human sources — which reached findings the Committee did not report.The Franklin case131The public record of the Franklin credit union case in Omaha: the Legislature’s floor debates and committee hearing on its Franklin Committee, the FBI’s files on the credit union and the 1990 Omaha inquiry, and the Secret Service’s file on Craig Spence.COVID origins123A House select subcommittee examining NIH, HHS and their grantees — published with all eight volumes of underlying exhibits, which is the part worth reading.Surveillance oversight94Both Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board reports and the President’s Review Group report — outside review bodies, two of which concluded against the government.Waco80Congress examining the ATF and the FBI: the 1995 joint House hearings where officials answered under oath, the 1996 committee report, and the 1999 Senate reopening.
A note on counts

Why we say records, not documents.

Long files are split across several rows so a search can point at the right part of them. A count of records is therefore a count of searchable sections, not of documents — the Warren Commission is one report and many records. We would rather give you a number that is awkward and true than one that is round and flattering.

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