FEMA Public Affairs Guidance No. 1 This public affairs guidance was prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on March 24, 1998 to guide responses to questions about FEMA's secret national security plans, which "require a rigid level of protection." FEMA Public Affairs Guidance No. 2 This public affairs guidance was prepared on June 18, 1998 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the aftermath of the movie The X-Files: Fight the Future. It advises officials how to answer queries on FEMA's shadowy "role outside of natural disaster management." Morrie Goodman, FEMA's Communications Director, denied Dossier's request for the document; it was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Martin Luther King Assassination Documents House Select Committee on Assassination documents, photo exhibits, testimony, King assassination documents search engine and more. 1977 Senate MKULTRA Hearing In June 1977, a rare cache of MKULTRA documents were discovered, which had escaped destruction by the CIA. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on August 3, 1977, to question CIA officials on the newly-discovered documents. The complete 171-page record is included here, including testimony and dozens of MKULTRA documents on various subprojects. MKULTRA Subproject No. 83 This declassified CIA memo was written on April 18, 1958 by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, chief of the Chemical Division of the agency's Technical Services Staff. Gottlieb, who oversaw many of the MKULTRA projects, reviewed covert CIA support for research studies of "controversial and misunderstood" areas of psychology such as hypnosis, truth drugs, psychic powers and subliminal persuasion. Covert Testing on Human Subjects By Military Intelligence Groups An excerpt from Appendix A of the Select Committee on Intelligence report on "Project MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification," issued in 1977. CIA Censorship Report This report by CIA Publications Review Board chair John Hedley, titled "Secrets, Free Speech, and Fig Leaves," unveils recent changes in the CIA's procedures for censoring memoirs by former U.S. spies. Highlights of the Classification Appeals Panel This report on the work of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel describes how the panel has reversed efforts by several government agencies to keep Cold War foreign policy records classified. FBI Document on Frank Sturgis This December 22, 1961 memo by FBI official S.B. Donahoe explores the CIA's involvement with an anti-Castro leaflet mission flown by soldier-of-fortune Frank Sturgis (aka Frank Fiorini). Sturgis dropped leaflets calling for "Phantom Cells" to burn Cuba's economy to the ground. The document was released to the public in July of 1998. Tenet's Statement on Declassification In this July 24, 1998 statement, CIA Director George Tenet announces that the agency will cut back on promised historical releases, and describes his current declassification priorities. CIA: Hypnosis in Interrogation This study, written by Edward F. Deshere, appeared in the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence in 1960. This document explores some of the possible applications of hypnosis during interrogations. Selected FOIA Requests to the CIA, 1997 This subject list was condensed from a FOIA Case Log for 1997 which was released by the CIA. It displays the variety (and occasional hilarity) of requests that the agency is bound by law to respond to. The CIA Meets the American Public This report from Studies in Intelligence, makes note of some of the most bizarre FOIA requests ever received by the agency, from "the three most deadly karate blows," to "All information on John Lennon, Richard Daley, and Bigfoot." The Kooks and the Spooks Meet the CIA's pen pals from the fringe in this declassified article written for the spy journal Studies in Intelligence. The Clinton Scandal Archive Ready for a wild ride on the Whitewater? A trip through Travelgate? A peek inside the Filegate files? The Clinton Scandal Archive features key documents from the latest investigations of impropriety at the White House. Big Tobacco Political & PR Ops This insider report on "Lobbying and Public Affairs Activities of Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds" was prepared in the summer of 1995 by the State Affairs Company, a Virginia public relations firm whose chief client is the tobacco industry. The document draws on interviews with cigarette company officials to describe their advanced public relations campaigns, and details both overt lobbying efforts and stealth political operations such as tobacco front groups. Philip Morris PR Activities Reports This document is a text reproduction of "activities reports" prepared by the public relations firm State Affairs Company (SAC) for its main client, tobacco giant Philip Morris. The records date from the summer of 1996, during which SAC ran "Contributions Watch," a phony research group that promoted the big tobacco agenda. The activities Philip Morris paid for included several efforts to influence the media's coverage of CW. Charlotte Mayor's Urban Warfare Protest Letter Pat McCrory, mayor of Charlotte, N.C., wrote this letter to President Clinton to protest secretive Army urban warfare training exercises which terrorized residents of his city. Subliminal Scares Documents related to the debate over subliminal messages. Rep. Dawson on subliminal telecasts; the FCC's notice on subliminals; an FCC information bulletin on subliminals and more. "Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce" Everyone's out to get poor Bill Clinton. In fact, it's a right-wing media conspiracy! Read the report that exposed the Clinton White House's paranoid attitude towards public criticism. South Central Intelligence Agency In November 1996, former CIA director John Deutch faced the wrath of South Central Los Angeles residents concerning allegations of CIA involvement in drug smuggling. This verbatim transcript documents one of the few times a high-ranking CIA official has faced direct public scrutiny. The FEC's Christian Coalition Lawsuit Alleging that the Christian Coalition violated campaign laws during the 1996 elections, the Federal Election Commission filed this lawsuit in federal court. Pat Buchanan's "Dirty Tricks" Memo Pat Buchanan is a man who knows how to play dirty, as this 1972 Nixon campaign memo to John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman aptly demonstrates. Pentagon Witch Hunt for Gays These documents show that harassment of homosexual servicemembers continues virtually unabated, in spite of Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Costs of Secrecy This list, compiled by the Information Security Oversight Office, shows how much of taxpayers' money is spent by various government agencies to hide official secrets. CIA Director John Deutch on Cyberwar This transcript of former CIA Director John Deutch's statement before a Senate subcommittee outlines some of the plans that the spooks have for warfare in the digital web.

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