Explore the CIA’s Diary Notes from the year JFK was shot
We’ve begun putting the day-to-day diary entries of the CIA’s Executive Committee in chronological order, starting with 1963: the year John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
Breitbart News’ FBI file details how site accidentally DDoS’d itself … but exempts over a thousand pages
On January 17, 2016, the alt-right news site Breitbart found itself under siege: A number of IP addresses were sending a large amount of traffic its way, straining its servers. Writing to the FBI two days later with the subject line “Request for assistance,” someone (identity redacted) shared the source of the IP addresses and asked that the FBI “explore the possibility that the identity of the criminal … be identified from this fingerprint.” It turns out, it was an inside job.
The alphabet of CIA gadgets
CIA’s bag of tricks is a veritable a-to-z of dubious doodads. Here’s a alphabetical trove of the strangest.
Win friends and destroy your enemies with CIA’s wartime guide to bribery and blackmail
A field manual in CIA’s archives explained how to use bribery and blackmail to destroy enemies and influence people.
Five good things the CIA is responsible for
In the interest of fairness - and because it’s the CIA’s birthday - we thought we’d try and dig up a few examples of net positives the Agency has intentionally (or unintentionally) visited upon the world. What we found was that from science to cinema, the Agency’s unexpected reach knows no bounds.
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The Private Prison Project
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- 44% funded
- $4405.00 raised
- 107 backers
Despite what you've heard, for-profit detention continues to reap the rewards of an incarceration system filled to the brim and facing an uncertain future. Over the last two years, our FOIA requests have released thousands of documents that show how for-profit prisons have leveraged the legal system to their advantage, letting companies pick-and-choose inmates to off-load costs, ignore complaints and concerns, and create dangerous conditions for prisoners and staff alike. This is all done while billions of taxpayer dollars are funneled into these private companies, which then pour millions into politicians' campaigns to keep their growth going. With your help, we can provide needed scrutiny of an industry few are even aware exists. -
Subjects Matter: FBI Files
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- 35% funded
- $1750.00 raised
- 13 backers
From Abbie Hoffman to Malcolm X, Ol' Dirty Bastard to the Insane Clown Posse, FBI files read like a veritable Who's Who of the 20th Century. This project aims to sift through the hundreds of thousands of agency archival material we've managed to get released, so we can better understand why the Bureau had an eye on these people - and through that, better understand who they're keeping tabs on today. -
Counting the Uncounted: The Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit Project
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- 46% funded
- $530.00 raised
- 9 backers
- 1 week, 3 days remaining
Despite an estimated 175,000 sexual assault evidence collection kits that sit untested in evidence rooms and crime labs across the country, there is no federal law in place mandating policies or testing of kits, and we don't know how many more go uncounted. This project aims to end that, one city and one kit at a time.