Among the objects photographed for the National Archives’ 2022 digitization project is a ChapStick container modified to conceal a microphone. It was entered into evidence before Chief Judge John J. Sirica of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia during the trial of United States v. G. Gordon Liddy, and it now sits … Read more
The Gimbal Briefing File What The Black Vault Pulled Out of the System Formerly SECRET-level emails don’t arrive easily. Under U.S. government standards, SECRET applies to information whose unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to national security. John Greenewald of The Black Vault spent approximately three years pursuing a set of … Read more
The Repository The archive runs to 6,237 pages. Most of it is email. On February 1, 2022, The Black Vault, a privately operated document repository founded in 1996 by John Greenewald Jr. that publishes records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and equivalent state open-records laws, published a collection of materials released by … Read more
The FOI File The T 71 series holds 663 registers of enslaved people recorded across Britain’s colonial territories between 1812 and 1851. The National Archives describes them as very heavy and large records requiring specific handling. On January 3, 2026, the archive published its response to Freedom of Information request CAS-291991, concerning how those registers … Read more
File KV 4/16 Six weeks after Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich declaring “peace for our time,” MI5 produced an intelligence assessment that took a rather different view of how the meeting had gone. The document carries catalogue reference KV 4/16 and is dated November 7, 1938. It belongs to the KV 4 series, which covers … Read more
The Chronology of Warnings The FBI’s public record on distributed denial-of-service attacks runs from 2015 through late 2022, accumulating across a series of notices before arriving at a targeted warning. The final document names a concrete threat, assesses its actual damage, and then stops short of identifying anyone responsible. The paper trail opens on November … Read more
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