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Most recently added files:    

NEW US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Information Policy (OIP) template paragraphs used for responses to FOIA requests and appeals and OIP Administrative Appeal Letter Database, 2011 - [30-Jan-2012]

NEW Procedures for Systematic Declassification Review of State Department Records Involving Presidential Records, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), or National Security Council (NSC) documents, 2007-2010 - [30-Jan-2012]

NEW The Standards Laboratory and Rocket Testing, C. M. Herzfeld, National Bureau of Standards Washington, DC, Report AD 255023, 1960 - [30-Jan-2012]

UPDATED Documents related to “the Fabrazyme matter” including periodic regular updates to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) required from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Correspondence, 2011 - [30-Jan-2012]

NEW US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Inspector's Field Manual (IFM), 2006 - [23-Jan-2012]

NEW List of closed investigations in the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Investigative and Enforcement Services (IES) database, 1999-2011 - [23-Jan-2012]

NEW US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 2011 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Small Agency Annual Employee Survey (AES) and Agency Trend Reports - [23-Jan-2012]

NEW Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) File Number 66-HQ-2554: FBI Executives Conference, Sections, 29, 30, 34, and 35, 1945-1946 - [16-Jan-2012]
NOTE: This is a large file; 101 Megabytes, containing over 1000 pages of reports

UPDATED Pages from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) (non-public) Intranet released on Appeal, 2011 - [16-Jan-2012]
NOTE: This is a large file; 91 Megabytes, over 280 pages added in this update

NEW Minutes of National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Advisory Board meetings, 1995-1999 - [16-Jan-2012]

NEW Copies of handouts to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Advisory Board re: relocation of the NTIS historic archives and an assessment of the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL), 2008 - [16-Jan-2012]

NEW Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) File 71-HQ-5415, James Robert “Bob” Langston – Midwest Stag Film and Burlesque Showman, 1952-1953 - [09-Jan-2012]

NEW Updated Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Record/Information/Dissemination Section (RIDS) Dead List, (complete), 2011 - [09-Jan-2012]

NEW Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Intelligence Assessment: Assessment of Documents Relating to US Schools, 2004 - [09-Jan-2012]

NEW List of Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) incident reports, October 17 - 26, 2010 - [09-Jan-2012]

NEW Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) File No. 62-HQ-97308, Security of Telephone Services, 1952-1995 - [26-Dec-2011]
NOTE: This is a large file; 66 Megabytes

NEW Office of The Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) list of reports produced by the Intelligence Science Board (ISB), 2002-2010 - [26-Dec-2011]

NEW United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Report: “The Atomic Bomb,” January 1945 - [26-Dec-2011]

NEW US Agency for International Development (USAID) iPad2 Risk Assessment, 2011 - [26-Dec-2011]

NEW The New World, 1939/1946, A History of The United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume I, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1962 - [19-Dec-2011]
NOTE: This is a large file; 56 Megabytes

NEW Periodic employee colloquia, brown bag lunch talks, and employee seminar discussions held at NSA Headquarters, 2006-2008 - [19-Dec-2011]

UPDATED FBI Monograph: Threat Assessment of Pro-Khomeini Shiite Activities in the U.S., 24-February-1984 - [19-Dec-2011]

NEW US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) statement of work contract GS 1 OF0027N and HSCEMD11F00053 with CapGemini Governments Solutions Limited Liability, signed July 2011 - [19-Dec-2011]

NEW Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) File 100-HQ-343044, Soviet War Plans, 1945 -1948 - [12-Dec-2011]

NEW National Security Agency (NSA) document: “The Longest Search: The Story of the Twenty-one-Year Pursuit of the Soviet Deep Space Data Link, and How it Was Helped by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” - [12-Dec-2011]

NEW National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Transcript: CIA All-Hands, DCI General Michael V. Hayden, Nov 14, 2006 - [12-Dec-2011]

NEW List of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Directives, 2011 - [12-Dec-2011]

NEW National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) contract Statement of Work: Economic Analysis of the Potential for Energy Gains in the US Industrial Sector, 2009 (?) - [05-Dec-2011]

NEW (Nuclear Detonation) Bomb Alarm System Study, May 1, 1964 - [05-Dec-2011]

NEW Nine Washington (DC) Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) Office of Inspector (OIG) Reports of Investigation, 2010 - [05-Dec-2011]

NEW Two New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) reports, 2001-2002 - [05-Dec-2011]

 

 

 

 

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