A secret agreement and a subsequent federal lawsuit were used to shield presidential papers from public view, a battle of ownership that left a gap in the historical record.
By Desmond Okafor ·
For four years, a president avoided federal taxes by gifting his own history to a government vault—a scheme the Watergate Special Prosecution Force spent years dismantling.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Before the courts forced a disclosure, the Special Prosecutor’s office spent months begging for evidence that the White House had spent years scrubbing.
By Marcus Boone ·
Records from the terminal phase of the JFK Review Board show how a corporate lawyer oversaw the final handover of secrets that remained blacked out for decades.
By Theo Marchetti ·
The National Archives spent years masking the legal wars over the JFK assassination with a facade of routine administration and centennial celebrations.
By Theo Marchetti ·
The inner circle of the Nixon White House faced a trial while the government handled files on electronic surveillance that remained buried in task force archives.
By Marcus Boone ·
Thousands of sailors died in the Atlantic because their most secret orders were read by an invisible ear. The National Archives catalog lists the methods used to break those codes.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Private communications were snatched from the air and analyzed by federal agents to map out enemy organizations, a process that left target nations blind to the intrusion.
By Miriam Adler ·
Families exposed to radiation and victims of plutonium injections remain footnotes in a massive, unsorted collection of government records.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Suspects of drug abuse and terrorism were captured on film by Naval investigators, creating a visual archive of surveillance that remains listed in government catalogs.
By Marcus Boone ·
Men stripped of their uniforms and autonomy were reduced to intelligence bulletins, their lives categorized by rank and utility in records maintained by the Historical Division.
By Miriam Adler ·
Families sought evidence of fallen sons while the Church Committee mapped illegal surveillance and the HSCA hunted for missing memos and redacted cables.
By Theo Marchetti ·
FBI agents and headquarters filtered case records for decades to control what senators could find during a probe into intelligence failures and illegal operations.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Men died on the beaches of Cuba because of plans that may have vanished after a secretary replaced original records with facsimiles for safekeeping.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Families of the fallen lived in a permanent state of suspicion while Senate leads into the 1963 killing stayed tucked away in National Archives boxes.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Cuban exiles died and U-2 pilots risked cages or coffins while the official record stayed a ghost, leaving the truth to hide in private letters for decades.
By Harlan Pryce ·