Collection of FOIA releases

TITLES

John McCain POW CIA - DOD Files - 73 pages of CIA and Department of Defense documents and transcriptions, of foreign broadcasts, from 1967 to 1973, relating to John McCain's captivity in North Vietnam
JohnMcCainCIAFiles.pdf

John MCCain Code of Conduct - The report, "The Code of Conduct and the Vietnam War," by John S McCain, Commander United States Navy, an April 8, 1974, individual research project conducted by John S. McCain, Commander, United States Navy, at the National War College. The purpose of this paper was to review the Code of Conduct in the perspective of the Vietnam prisoner of war experience and to make recommendations for changes to the code itself and to the training and indoctrination of the members of the Armed Forces in the Code of Conduct.
TheCodeofConductandtheVietnamWarbyJohnSMcCain.pdf

McCain Related CIA Treatment of American POWs CIA Files - Selected CIA files dating from 1966 to 1971. The files concern the treatment of American POWs. The files cover: The exploitation of U.S. POWs for propaganda purposes. Experiences of American pilots captured in Vietnam. Intelligence on Hoa Lo Prison, also known as Hanoi Hilton. Lessons used in the indoctrination of American POWs. North Vietnamese policy toward American POWs. The Viet Cong practices involving the taking of POWs. The air raids that took place in and around Hanoi during the period of time of McCain's last sortie. The use of POWs for propaganda broadcasts. The Viet Cong prison system for Vietnamese under their detention.
TreatmentofAmericanPOWsinVietnamCIA%20Files.pdf

Osama Bin Laden: A Case Study - A 393 page December 1999 Sandia National Laboratories study on Osama bin Laden released in 2008. This document provides an open-source examination and analysis of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, his al Qaeda organization, and allied terrorist organizations. It includes a summary of the relevant history, the lessons learned from the 1998 African embassy bombings and from the follow-on cruise-missile strikes, the threat of future attacks using weapons of mass destruction, and a set observations, conclusions and recommendations.
OsamaBinLadenACaseStudy.pdf

Ethel Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony - Ethel Rosenberg grand jury testimony released on September 11, 2008.
EthelRosenbergGrandJury.pdf

Election of 1858 - Slavery Political Cartoons
1858SlaveryPoliticalCartoons.pdf

Jesse Jackson Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Files - In 1956 the state of Mississippi created the State Sovereignty Commission. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission monitored the activities of people who challenged segregation. The commission's stated original objective was to "[...] protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states" from "federal encroachment." Initially it was formed to coordinate activities to portray the state and segregation in a more positive light. As the state's public relations campaign failed to dampen rising civil rights activism, the commission put people to work as a de facto intelligence organization trying to identify those citizens in Mississippi who might be working for civil rights, be allied with communists, or just tipped state surveillance if their associations, activities, and travels did not seem to conform to segregationist norms.
JesseJacksonMSSC.pdf

John Kennedy Street Confederate Civil War Papers - John Kennedy Street (1837-1914), originally of Giles County, Tennessee, was a private in the 9th Texas Infantry, July 1861-November 1863, then a chaplain with the 14th Texas Cavalry. He fought in campaigns in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky. The content of these papers are chiefly letters from John Kennedy Street to his wife, Melinda Pace Street (1839-1899), describing marches, camp life, picket duty, sickness, hospitals, bushwhackers, religious revivals, and the formation of a Young Men's Christian Association in his brigade. He also wrote of his battlefield experiences at Shiloh, Perryville, and Murfreesboro, and of the fall of Vicksburg and skirmishing around Jackson, Mississippi, that took place at the same time. Street commented generally on the war and on southern independence and mentioned family members whom he visited during the course of his military service. There are two letters written by his daughter, Elizabeth Kennedy Street Wallace. Also included is a diary Street kept recounting his time spent in federal prisons at Vicksburg and Memphis; newspaper clippings; an 1862 photograph of Street; a contemporary hand-drawn map of the siege of Vicksburg; a poem, a calling card, and an invitation to a wedding anniversary celebration.
JohnKennedyStreetPapers.pdf

World War II: Army Air Force Report: The War Against the Luftwaffe AAF Counter-Air Operations, April 1943-June 1944
TheWarAgainsttheLuftwaffe.pdf

World War II: Allied Supreme Command Report: Japanese Methods of Prisoner of War Interrogation
JapanesseMethods.pdf

Vietnam War: Volume 1 (Red Baron) Air-to-Air Encounters Southeast Asia. A 1305 page compilation of all available data on F-4 and F-8 air-to-air encounters between January 1965 and 1 March 1967. Includes illustrated re-enactments.
WSEGReport116.PDF

Vietnam War: Rolling Thunder Target Planning and Strike Data
RollingThunderTargetList.pdf

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Correta Scott King FBI Files
CSKFBIFile.pdf

World War II Department of War "Combat Lessons" Reports
WWIICombatLessons.pdf

World War II White House - Great Britain Diplomatic Traffic - Correspondence, reports and memorandum from 1939. Correspondents Include: Welles, Merriman, Halifax, FDR, The British Embassy, Summerlin, Chamberlain, Burnham, Helm, Lord Lothian, Hull and Watson. Topics Include: The King and Queen's trip to New York, Poland's and Germany's situation in the war during 1939, and personal correspondence to and from FDR.
WWIIUSGreatBritainDiplomaticTraffic1939.pdf

Franklin D. Roosevelt Assassination Attempt FBI Files - Joseph Zangara (alias Guissepi Zangara) was an Italian immigrant who attempted to assassinate president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Zangara had a strong hatred towards all persons in positions of authority. On February 15, 1933, Zangara attended a speech given by Roosevelt at Bayfront Park in Miami, Florida. When Roosevelt finished his talk and was preparing to leave, Zangara pulled out a pistol and opened fire. A bystander deflected the assassin's aim by pushing his arm into the air. Zangara wounded five people who had been near the president-elect, two of them seriously. Most critically injured was Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was struck by the bullet in the chest which then lodged in his spine. Zangara was immediately charged with four counts of attempted murder. He was not charged initially with the wounding of Cermak, as authorities waited to see if the mayor's wounds would prove fatal. The State charged Zangara for attempting to murder Franklin Roosevelt, Russell Caldwell, Margaret Kruise, and William Sinnott. Zangara was found guilty on each count and sentenced to four consecutive twenty-year terms. On March 6, Mayor Cermak died from complications stemming from the shooting. The same day, Zangara was indicted by a grand jury and charged with first degree murder in the death of Cermak. His trial began on March 9 and ended on March 11 with a guilty verdict and a death sentence. Zangara was transported to the Florida State Prison at Raiford, where he was executed on March 20, 1933.
FDRAssassinationAttempt.pdf

Black Panther Party Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Files - In 1956 the state of Mississippi created the State Sovereignty Commission. The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission monitored the activities of people who challenged segregation. The commission's stated original objective was to "[...] protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states" from "federal encroachment." Initially it was formed to coordinate activities to portray the state and segregation in a more positive light. As the state's public relations campaign failed to dampen rising civil rights activism, the commission put people to work as a de facto intelligence organization trying to identify those citizens in Mississippi who might be working for civil rights, be allied with communists, or just tipped state surveillance if their associations, activities, and travels did not seem to conform to segregationist norms.
BlackPantherPartyMSSCFiles.pdf

Taliban State Department - Defense Intelligence Agency Files
TalibanStateDepartmentDefenseIntelligenceAgencyFiles.pdf

CIA Congressional Relations Official CIA History
CIA-CongressionalRelationsOfficialHistory.pdf

Rescue of Mussolini - A 1943 U.S. Army Intelligence translation of Austrian and German officers' personal accounts of the assignment from Hitler to rescue Mussolini in the summer of 1943. Topics includes meeting with Hitler, discovery and reconnaissance of Mussolini's hideout, planning the rescue operation, and the actual rescue events.
RescueofMussolini.pdf