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This CIA memorandum for the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (D/CI) provides a chronological review of the Air Force's requests to declassify CIA materi…

According to the releasing agency, this is an UNCLASSIFIED (subsequently declassified) U.S. Department of State incoming diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy…

This file is a U.S. Department of State diplomatic cable transmitted from the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the Office of the Secretary of State in…

According to the releasing agency (U.S. Department of State, via the Department of War UAP release collection), this document is an unclassified diplomatic cab…

This is a U.S. Department of State diplomatic cable from the U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to the Office of the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C.…

This CIA report (No. 00-W-30367) summarizes several foreign press items concerning 'flying saucers.' A Paris-Dakar article (12 Dec 1953) describes a piece in t…

This file combines a page of an international UFO-research organization directory with an article titled 'The U.S. Government & The Iran Case' and a verbatim r…

This UNCLASSIFIED Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) report, filed from Abidjan on 25 January 1996 and later approved for release by the CIA in March…

This 55-page FBI file, released by the U.S. Department of War, details the Bureau's Seattle office handling of civilian and military reports of Unidentified Fl…

Leading Soviet newspapers and journals have recently begun publishing an increasing number of articles and news reports on sightings of unidentified flying obj…

This unclassified CIA document (sequence CSB91554381) is a translated/abstracted foreign-press report drawn from the Soviet newspaper Pravda Vostoka. It report…

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 report reproduces translated excerpts from Greek, French, and Persian newspapers published in Athens, Brazzaville, and Tehran between 1 March and 20 M…

This single-page document is a sanitized CIA Reading Room clipping of a Jack Anderson newspaper column, 'Warfare Is Part of the Game,' printed in The Washingto…

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This declassified CIA/FBIS cable is an editorial report on a Russian-language television program aired on Moscow's Ostankino Television First Program Network a…

This three-page unclassified memorandum, dated 12 June 1995, was written by the CIA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) for CIA Public Affairs. It annou…

This ODNI publication, declassified by DNI Tulsi Gabbard on 18 June 2026, is the first part of a COVID-19 origins document release hosted under the headline 'F…

This file is the master index (Everything.20171105.hash_index.txt) for the CIA's November 2017 release of the Abbottabad compound material — the trove of digit…

The 1993 Defense News investticarticle reports Russian government efforts to perfect 'acoustic psycho-correction' — a mind-control technology purportedly devel…

This UNCLASSIFIED FBIS London cable (serial LD2209194992), transmitted 22 September 1992 and approved for release by the CIA in 2003, reports on a Russian-lang…

This 178-page file, released by the U.S. Department of War (via war.gov) in release 3 of its UFO document collection, compiles unidentified flying object incid…

This document is a clipping from the San Francisco Examiner (Page 3, Friday, August 5, 1977), preserved in the CIA's CREST archive. It reports that CIA Directo…

This CIA information report, dated 4 February 1953, aggregates unevaluated accounts drawn from French daily and thrice-weekly newspapers published between 3 Ju…