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This four-page CIA cable, transmitted from the Guatemala City station to Director and Mexico City in April 1973, documents a station investigation (run through…

This unclassified extract from the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, authored by Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., surveys the history and methodology of offic…

[[pages 1–82 of 97]] DECLASSIFIED BY DNI GABBARD ON 18 JUNE 2026

This three-page document from the CIA's electronic reading room profiles the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), characterizing it a…

This CIA/OSI memorandum for file, dated 21 January 1953, documents the meeting of an ad hoc scientific advisory panel — later known as the Robertson Panel — co…

This two-page CIA Memorandum for Record, dated 30 January 1953, records a briefing of the Office of National Estimates (ONE) Board concerning Unidentified Flyi…

This CIA document, released via the CIA Reading Room, is an internal memorandum framed around three questions concerning UFOs, using the answers as sub-heading…

This 26-page Top Secret document, dated 8 August 1962 and prepared for a policy meeting of the Special Group (Augmented), was authored by Brig. Gen. Edward G.…

This document is a single-page 'Service to Service' intelligence letter dated 10 May 1982, apparently addressed within a Western intelligence liaison channel (…

According to the U.S. Department of War release (attributed on the hosting page to the Department of State), this two-page memorandum dated July 28, 1952 relat…

This file is a CIA internal handbook annex describing the '201 System,' the Agency's method for identifying, filing, and controlling information on persons of…

This declassified memorandum, dated 19 October 1955 and released via the CIA reading room, discusses a reported sighting of two unconventional aircraft. The ob…

This CIA record consists of two JFK Assassination System identification forms (record number 104-10130-10085, filed under subject HALL, LORAN EUGENE, from Jerr…

This CIA office memorandum, dated 31 March 1953 and authored by C. Durant for addressee P.G. Strenz, addresses the administrative handling of Unidentified Flyi…

This National Archives file, part of the March 2025 JFK Assassination Records release, is a CIA Counterintelligence Staff memorandum dated 16 February 1978 tit…

This file is one document in the National Archives' 2025 release of records under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Act of 1992, assigned NAR…

This file is Part 3 of a multi-part COVID-19 records release published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and declassified by DNI Tulsi Gab…

This unevaluated CIA information report, distributed 22 September 1954, aggregates open-source newspaper reports of UFO sightings across Northern and Central E…

This CIA memorandum, marked Confidential/Secret and dated 27 January 1978, was authored by H. Clark Schor, Chief of the Plans and Review Group of the Central C…

This FBI Headquarters memorandum, dated 06/20/1962 and originally classified Top Secret, transmits CIA liaison material regarding a subject named George Spellm…

IN THE lobby of the Flamingo Hilton, Las Vegas, slot machines—one armed bandits—stretch in serried ranks to the far horizon. Hanging over the machines nearest…

This FBI HQ record (Record Number 124-90141-10015, agency file 105-92413-3) is a memorandum dated 11/18/1960 from the SAC, Washington Field Office (WFO, file 1…

This eight-page file reproduces a CIA Office of Security memorandum dated 11 June 1976 from Jerry G. Brown, Deputy Chief of the Security Analysis Group, to the…

Released as part of a U.S. Department of War (war.gov) UAP records disclosure, this 66-page file documents the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Newark Field O…