72 original documents and record collections from 56 issuing bodies. Every entry links to the archive, court, parliament or agency that holds it. We never host the files.
How to read the tag: “Verified” means the record exists at the linked source. It does not vouch for what the document claims. Where the original publisher blocks automated access, the entry is marked as a copy and the copy is linked. Documents that came out through leaks are described, not hosted, on the Leaks pages (35 entries).
Archive briefing book #930 with newly declassified FBI records, including a 2000 FBI interview of Henry Kissinger; the December 2000 summary remains withheld.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2026-09-21/letelier-moffitt-case-50-verdict-history-pinochets-role
National Archives announcement of presidential briefings and 9/11 Commission interview memoranda released on the 25th anniversary.
Open original ↗https://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/2026/09/11/long-sought-9-11-records-now-declassified-and-available-to-the-public/
Third-party index of the fifth PURSUE release of UAP records; publication of a record is not evidence about what any sighting was.
Open original ↗https://decur.org/documents/pursue-release-5-2026
Rolling release under Executive Order 14176: 10,185 pages on 18 April 2025 and 64,686 pages on 7 May 2025, with some material withheld under FOIA.
Open original ↗https://www.archives.gov/research/rfk
Following a presidential directive, all records previously withheld for classification in the JFK collection were released.
Open original ↗https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025
Release of MI5 files with new detail on Philby, Blunt and Cairncross, including their confessions.
Open original ↗https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/document-releases/latest-release-of-files-from-mi5/
208-page interim report on the Northern Ireland 'Stakeknife' legacy investigation, covering agent handling and its consequences.
Open original ↗https://www.psni.police.uk/sites/default/files/2024-03/Operation%20Kenova%20Interim%20Report%202024.pdf
Commission report whose Part V opens with the State Security Agency and crime intelligence.
Open original ↗https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/202206/electronic-state-capture-commission-report-part-v-vol-i.pdf
Eight documents (331 pages): city guides, an 82-page atlas of the PRC and leadership profiles prepared for President Nixon.
Open original ↗https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/nixon-collection
Review agency report; the existing site entry notes it found 28% of requests not sufficiently justified, yet 99% of domestic-client requests approved.
Open original ↗https://nsira-ossnr.gc.ca/en/reviews/find-a-review/19-03/report-archived/
More than 111 km of files and 1.7 million photos, available under the Stasi Records Act.
Open original ↗https://www.bundesarchiv.de/en/stasi-records-archive/tasks-and-structure/
Registrar's summary: Article 8 violations for the bulk interception and communications-data regimes; no violation on obtaining material from foreign governments (12-5).
Open original ↗https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?filename=Grand+Chamber+judgment+Big+Brother+Watch+and+Others+v.+the+United+Kingdom+-+UK+surveillance+regime%3A+some+aspects+contrary+to+the+Convention+.pdf&id=003-7028496-9484349&library=ECHR
Four-page assessment that the Crown Prince approved an operation to 'capture or kill' Khashoggi; the Saudi Foreign Ministry rejects it.
Open original ↗https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Assessment-Saudi-Gov-Role-in-JK-Death-20210226-khashoggi.pdf
Internal review of NZSIS processes before the 2019 Christchurch attacks; 'broadly effective' with five areas to improve.
Open original ↗https://www.nzsis.govt.nz/assets/NZSIS-Documents/News-supporting/AROTAKE-Executive-Summary-1.pdf
The court held German intelligence is bound by the Basic Law in foreign-to-foreign surveillance and declared parts of the BND Act incompatible (German text).
Open original ↗https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidungen/DE/2020/05/rs20200519_1bvr283517.html
Archive posting of declassified records alongside ZDF/Washington Post reporting that Crypto AG was secretly owned by US and German intelligence.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile-cyber-vault-intelligence-southern-cone/2020-02-11/cias-minerva-secret
OPCW page on its findings about the poisoning; any link to a specific FSB unit rests on separate Bellingcat reporting, not this page.
Open original ↗https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/featured-topics/case-mr-alexei-navalny
Inspector General Horowitz's Senate statement on his office's review of four FISA applications in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Open original ↗https://oig.justice.gov/node/16547
Committee report on UK agencies' involvement in detainee mistreatment and rendition, including financing of rendition operations in three cases.
Open original ↗https://isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20180628-HC1113-Report-Detainee-Mistreatment-and-Rendition-2001-10.pdf
States the results confirm the UK's findings on the identity of the toxic chemical; the name appears in the classified full report.
Open original ↗https://www.opcw.org/sites/default/files/documents/S%5Fseries/2018/en/s-1612-2018%5Fe%5F.pdf
States the Russian military launched the June 2017 NotPetya cyber-attack.
Open original ↗https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-25/
Judgment on a CSIS metadata collection-and-retention program running since 2006, which the Court says it had never been fully informed about.
Open original ↗https://christopher-parsons.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/83187-des-warrant-nov-3-2016-public-judgment-final-eng.pdf
SECRET assessment presented to Chile's president in 2016; the Archive characterises it as concluding Pinochet personally ordered the bombing.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/34339-document-9-cia-intelligence-assessment-pinochets-role-letelier-assassination-and
Unanimous finding of violations of Articles 3, 5, 8 and 13; 'State secrecy' applied by the Italian executive so those responsible did not answer for their actions.
Open original ↗https://www.giurisprudenzapenale.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Nasr-and-Ghali-v.-Italy-abduction-and-extrajudicial-transfer-to-Egypt-of-the-imam-Abu-Omar-1.pdf
329-page report; per BBC coverage the chairman concluded the killing was probably under FSB direction and approved by its chief and the Russian president.
Open original ↗https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-litvinenko-inquiry-report-into-the-death-of-alexander-litvinenko
Held that Section 215 of the Patriot Act did not authorize the bulk telephone-metadata program; it did not decide the constitutional question.
Open original ↗https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/14-42/14-42-2015-05-07.html
The Senate committee's published study, with a foreword by Chairman Feinstein and additional and minority views.
Open original ↗https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/committee-study-central-intelligence-agencys-detention-and-interrogation-program
Public report by Cheryl Gwyn; RNZ reports it found the release to a blogger was incomplete, inaccurate and misleading.
Open original ↗https://igis.govt.nz/assets/Inquiries/FINAL-REPORT-INTO-THE-RELEASE-OF-INFORMATION-BY-NZSIS-IN-JULY-AND-AUGUST-2.pdf
Collection on military Moon-base studies and related intelligence; see the /moon page for what it does and does not show.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/
Found that the Court of Cassation and Milan appeal court infringed the Prime Minister's secrecy powers and annulled the relevant parts of the 2013 convictions.
Open original ↗https://www.cortecostituzionale.it/documenti/download/doc/recent_judgments/24-2014_en.pdf
KGB archivist's notes from 1972–1984, exfiltrated by SIS in 1992 according to the archive; the FBI called them the most complete intelligence ever received.
Open original ↗https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/collections/mitrokhin/
Sets out Beria's March 1940 proposal, the camps, and the State Duma's 26 November 2010 statement on the Katyn killings.
Open original ↗https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?filename=001-127684.pdf&id=001-127684&library=ECHR
Archive posting of CIA documents including what it believes is the agency's first formal acknowledgement of planning and executing the coup.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/
Less-redacted CIA history of the U-2 and OXCART programs (1954–1974) released under FOIA, with a declassified map of Groom Lake.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB434/
Top-secret order directing Verizon to give the NSA daily call-detail records; the Second Circuit describes it as a FISC order leaked by Edward Snowden.
Open original ↗https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order
Archive posting that includes KGB reports on Operation RYaN and a declassified CIA Studies in Intelligence article.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB426/
Publication page for the review of state involvement in the 1989 murder.
Open original ↗https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-report-of-the-patrick-finucane-review
FBI account of the decade-long case against SVR 'illegals'; per the FBI they never obtained classified documents.
Open original ↗https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/operation-ghost-stories-inside-the-russian-spy-case
Volumes of CIA's internal history of the 1961 invasion released after a FOIA lawsuit; volume 5 was still withheld.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB355/
The 48-box, ~7,000-page report commissioned by McNamara in 1967; the National Archives says about 34% was available for the first time.
Open original ↗https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers
NGO report on the 2001 Miami convictions of five men described as agents of Cuban intelligence.
Open original ↗https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/amr510932010en.pdf
Documents on the debate over declassifying the 'fact of' US satellite reconnaissance, from 1973 to the 1992 decision.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB257/
The full 693-page file assembled on a 1973 order of DCI Schlesinger on agency activities, declassified by CIA in 2007.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/
NSA declassified 140+ documents; its historian's study says SIGINT shows no second attack on U.S. ships on 4 August 1964.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/press20051201.htm
Collection including the 22 January 2002 OLC memo by Jay Bybee on the War Crimes Act and Geneva Conventions.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB127/
Two CIA interrogation manuals describing 'coercive' techniques; a less-censored KUBARK was released in February 2014.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/
National Security Archive page with the declassified page-and-a-half brief, the first portion of a sitting president's daily brief released publicly.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/
Chapter 12 states the Inquiry was satisfied Dr Kelly took his own life and that no other person was involved.
Open original ↗https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2004/hutton-chapter12.htm
Final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; the Commission closed on 21 August 2004.
Open original ↗https://www.9-11commission.gov/report/
States 'I conclude there was collusion in both murders' (Patrick Finucane and Brian Adam Lambert) and that both could have been prevented.
Open original ↗https://www.patfinucanecentre.org/sites/default/files/2017-02/stevensreport.pdf
FBI account of the arrest of Ana Belen Montes, the DIA's top Cuba analyst, for spying for Cuba.
Open original ↗https://www.fbi.gov/history/cases-and-criminals/ana-montes
A roughly 200-page after-action history by Donald Wilber, one of the operation's chief planners, obtained by the Archive.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/
Held that the 'necessity' defence cannot be a source of authority for GSS directives permitting physical interrogation methods.
Open original ↗https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files2/hc5100_94_19990906_torture_ruling_eng.pdf
Independent board created by the 1992 Act to re-examine records still withheld by agencies; issued a final report.
Open original ↗https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/review-board
About 1,400 pages on Operation PBSUCCESS released by CIA, out of a stated estimate of 100,000+ in its archives.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/
Holds by ten votes to nine that there was a violation of Article 2; records the Commission's findings on premeditation and surrender.
Open original ↗https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?filename=001-57943.pdf&id=001-57943&library=ECHR
Announces 49 decrypted Soviet messages showing extensive espionage against the US atomic bomb program.
Open original ↗https://irp.fas.org/cia/news/pr71195.html
Orders declassification of Corona, Argon and Lanyard imagery and its transfer to the National Archives.
Open original ↗https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1995-02-28/html/95-5050.htm
Volume I of the Independent Counsel's final report on investigations and prosecutions.
Open original ↗https://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/
Deputy Secretary of Defense announces declassification of the existence of the National Reconnaissance Office.
Open original ↗https://irp.fas.org/nro/dod091802.html
Report adopted on the Spycatcher injunctions; it records Peter Wright's allegations and finds a violation of Article 10.
Open original ↗https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?filenam=&id=001-45478&library=ECHR
Hearing record describing LSD tests on unwitting subjects (at least one death), and the recently found seven boxes of MKULTRA financial documents.
Open original ↗https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-hearings-95mkultra.pdf
Senate history page: resolution passed 27 January 1975; final report issued 29 April 1976; chaired by Sen. Frank Church.
Open original ↗https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm
Staff study of 20,000+ pages of FBI documents on covert action programs against five targeted groups from 1956; it records the Bureau ending them on 27 April 1971.
Open original ↗https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book3/pdf/ChurchB3_1_COINTELPRO.pdf
Interim report whose contents include chapters on Congo planning, 'plausible denial' and the approval mechanism for covert action.
Open original ↗https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-94465.pdf
The Archives holds declassified Blue Book files; its reference reports say searches for 'MJ-12' documents were negative apart from one 1954 memo that does not identify MJ-12.
Open original ↗https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos
Joint resolution approving 'all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States'.
Open original ↗https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/tonkin-gulf-resolution
Records the President being told of contingency plans for 'plausible pretexts' and replying 'bluntly' that 'we were not discussing the use of U.S. military force.'
Open original ↗https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/18279-national-security-archive-doc-06-memorandum
TOP SECRET memo to the Secretary of Defense forwarding Cuba Project pretext ideas; it calls itself preliminary and for planning purposes.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/2022-10/Joint-Chiefs-pretexts-to-invade-Cuba-March-1962_0.pdf
Archive publication stating Mossad agents handed Eichmann to the Israel Police on his arrival in Israel.
Open original ↗https://catalog.archives.gov.il/site/en/chapter/behind-scenes-eichmann-trial/
Army proposal for a manned military outpost on the Moon; a study and proposal, not an executed plan.
Open original ↗https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/docs/EBB-Moon01.pdf
British cryptographers deciphered a German telegram offering US territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.
Open original ↗https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/zimmermann