A high-ranking FBI official provided documents to a task force while simultaneously destroying others, leaving a curated record of the Nixon administration's corporate alliances.
By Marcus Boone ·
For decades, the intelligence traded between US agencies and foreign governments regarding the murder of John F. Kennedy stayed hidden, leaving only sanitized working copies for the public.
By Desmond Okafor ·
A Top Secret memo, held for decades, exposes how the CIA used the FBI to breach the Chilean embassy and spy on Israeli diplomats while scrubbing the record for Senate investigators.
By Miriam Adler ·
Kept secret for nearly fifty years and marred by missing pages, a Top Secret memo describes how the FBI used the CIA as a shield to spy on the United Nations.
By Miriam Adler ·
Bureaucrats spent years labeling security purges as personal failures, keeping the real targets of the 1943-1949 investigations hidden in an indexed shadow archive.
By Marcus Boone ·
For years, the full scope of the Watergate break-in was filtered through government screeners before reaching prosecutors, leaving a trail of 'unused' evidence that still hides the authorization chain.
By Harlan Pryce ·
For years, the targets of seventeen "national security" wiretaps remained nameless; the administrative logs of the Deputy Attorney General show how the government fought to keep the records out of reach.
By Marcus Boone ·
White House fixers targeted whistleblowers and broke the law to protect a presidency, leaving behind a trail of redacted reports and records of evidence they tried to burn.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Seventeen journalists and government officials had their lives intercepted by the state, while the records of that theft vanished from the FBI and reappeared in a White House aide's files.
By Marcus Boone ·
Staff-prepared transcripts and meeting notes were handed over to investigators only after a court order, keeping the raw audio and the truth of the conspiracy buried for years
By Marcus Boone ·
For decades, the Federal Bureau of Investigation operated as a clandestine surveyor for the War Department in the North Pacific, a partnership whose strategic purpose remains redacted.
By Marcus Boone ·
A 1976 cable describes "special teams" that killed a diplomat on US soil, with the most damning operational details still blacked out after decades of secrecy.
By Desmond Okafor ·
The state spent decades trying to ensure no citizen could whisper in private. Louis Freeh's 1996 testimony sought to kill encryption in the name of public safety.
By Marcus Boone ·
Operatives were caught in the dark, but the trail to the Oval Office was buried in a curated archive of hotel keys and phone logs, kept secret for years.
By Miriam Adler ·
A Secret/Eyes Only FBI memorandum from 1976 tracks the disposal of two kidnapped officials, whose identities were erased by state terror and hidden for 36 years
By Desmond Okafor ·
For decades, the government kept the technical blueprints of its pursuit of anti-Nixon dissidents and the 'Responsiveness Program' hidden in a series of cross-reference printouts.
By Marcus Boone ·