CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERNET ARCHIVE PAGE CONTAINING THE FILE

The FBI’s Freedom of Information Act office elected not to post the entire file to its website; instead, they’ve posted only the first 201 pages here.

For a long time, if you wanted to view the whole thing, you had to pay the FBI FOIA office over $1,600  (10 cents/page) to get a paper copy, which isn’t a very convenient format for a huge file, or you had to go to a library that had it on microform, or you could view it in the reading room at FBI HQ in Washington, DC. Now you can get it online in PDF format. The FBI has divided MLK’s file into 121 sections, and they’ve made an Acrobat file for each section. But as mentioned above, they’ve posted only the first two sections to their site. The Memory Hole has put all 121 PDF files into a dozen zip files and posted them here.

A very helpful guide to the FBI’s MLK file is here. “Part 1″ covers the entire main file on King. (”Part 2″ is a guide to the FBI’s file on King’s adviser, friend, and confidante, New York businessman Stanley Levison; this 11,408-page file is comprised mostly of transcripts of bugged phone conversations between Levison and King. The FBI has posted the complete Levison file here.)

A couple of important notes about King’s file in general. The 16,659 pages don’t encompass all of King’s FBI file - however, this is all that the Bureau has released. As is often the case, they’ve withheld some pages under exemptions allowed by the Freedom of Information Act. Also, a 1977 court order forced the FBI to remove portions of the file and send them to the National Archives, where they are sealed until 2027. You can read all about this in “Part 1″ of the guide mentioned above.

Note that this is the main MLK file (i.e., the one compiled at FBI Headquarters). It contains some documents from FBI field offices, but the separate field office files on King aren’t included in their entireties in his main file. The Memory Hole will post these in the future.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE DOCUMENT [PDF | 288 pp | 12 meg]

It was sent to Federal Depository Libraries 25 years ago, but the IRS and Justice have long since stopped voluntarily releasing publications that reveal their tactics and inner workings. This manual doesn’t appear to have been posted online until now.

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Pentagon: “The Worldwide Military Command and Control System, A Historical Perspective (1960-1977), September 1980″ (25MB) [DOD FOIA site]

Justice Inspector General: “Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act, August 2008″ [DOJ IG]

Dept of Homeland Security: “Updated Status Report from DHS Regarding Deficiencies in Implementation of Executive Order 13,392, “Improving Agency Disclosure of Information”, (PDF, 3 pages - 1.18 MB)” [DHS FOIA site]

Several new audits from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstructions [SIGIR]

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FIRST FILE [PDF | 344 pp | 10.7 meg]

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SECOND FILE [PDF | 351 pp | 11.3 meg]

In response to a prior request, the NSA had sent a supposedly complete listing of forms that they use. (That list is located here.) I then requested a blank copy of each one. The NSA responded by sending a copy of more than 400 forms totaling 687 separate pages. (They also withheld 24 forms totaling 31 pages.)

I scanned the forms in the order (basically alphabetical) in which they appeared in the parcel. Some of them are standard Defense Department forms, but most originate within the NSA and have never been seen outside the agency. They range from the exotic to the pedestrian, but even the most prosaic form shines some light into the workings of No Such Agency.

Some samples:

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UPDATE, 17 Aug 2008: NSA Form P5590A, “Incomplete Sentences” - which used to be here - has been removed by The Memory Hole under legal threat by Pearson. Although on its face it appears to be a National Security Agency document - and thus uncopyrightable - it is actually a privately published, copyrighted document that is used by the NSA and other entities.

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53 new documents posted at the CIA’s FOIA site [CIA]

Pentagon Inspector General audit: “Accountability for Defense Security Service Assets With Personally Identifiable Information” [DOD IG] [News article]

Pentagon FOIA release: “National Security Personnel System payouts FY 2007″ [DOD]
>>> background: What is NSPS? [SecDef]

Terrorism-related DOJ / US Attorney indictments, January 1994 - April 2004 [Government Attic]

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction audit: “Comprehensive Plan Needed to Guide the Future of the Iraq Reconstruction Management System” [SIGIR]

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction report: “Key Recurring Management Issues Identified in Audits of Iraq Reconstruction Efforts” [SIGIR]

Justice Dept Inspector General report: “An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General, July 2008″ [DOJ IG]

EPA graciously allows 3 Senators to briefly view document concluding that greenhouse gases contribute to climate change [WaPo]

>>> related: Republicans block effort to subpoena global warming documents [LAT]

>>> related: Documents show EPA staff ordered to stonewall investigators and media [PEER]

Authorized Classification Markings in U.S. Intelligence [Secrecy News]

Why Is It So Hard to Get Documents from the National Archives About the National Archives? [HNN via FGI]

NIOSH report shows prison staff & inmates exposed to toxic metals for years [PEER]

UK: Leaked witness statements in trial of Corporal Daniel James [Cryptome]

Want to know what’s in your FBI file? [Exhibit A Baltimore] (Thanks, M)

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FILE [PDF | 132 meg | 2858 pp]
(Hosted at the Internet Archive)

It looks as though someone merged a whole bunch of separate studies by the military into one insanely huge file - 2,858 pages of detailed information on major seaports in the US (including California, Washington, Alaska, New York/New Jersey, Georgia, Texas, and Louisiana), Panama, the Middle East, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, and elsewhere. Photos, maps, charts, graphs - you name it - with the focus on each port’s ability to handle a US military operation.

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Saudi Arabia

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DOD FOIA Reading Room [PDF | 3.3 meg | 127 pp]

Memory Hole mirror

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>>> In Iraq, some prisoners/detainees are kept in wooden crates known as “prisoner boxes,” so I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Central Command asking for the following:

“Vanity Fair (Feb 2005 issue) has reported the existence of wood “prisoner boxes” being used by the US military in facilities in and around Baghdad. They are used to hold individual prisoners and detainees.

“I hereby request all photographs of these boxes, including empty boxes as well as boxes holding prisoners and detainees.”

Around nine and a half months later, CentCom responded by sending the three photographs on this page.

You are seeing the photos exactly as they were sent to me - as black and white printouts on standard printer paper, with creases from being folded into thirds. Two of the photos are extremely blurry and pixelated.

Considering that the average summer temperature in Baghdad is 111 F, and that temps can easily go above 120 F [source], it’s hard to imagine what it’s like to be inside these boxes.

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Technical note: These photographs were released as black and white print-outs by the US Central Command on 10 Nov 2005 in fulfillment of FOIA request #2005-085, filed by Russ Kick on 27 Jan 2005.

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Zip file containing high-resolution scans of all three photo print-outs [12 meg]

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major investigative series: Deadly denial: Nuclear weapons workers who risked their safety in the Cold War now must fight for compensation [Rocky Mountain News] Includes primary documents

ACLU of Maryland Lawsuit Uncovers Maryland State Police Spying Against Peace and Anti-Death Penalty Groups [ACLU] Scroll down for the documents

>> related: COINTELPRO Returns: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies [HuffPost/Alternet]

A CIA Lawyer’s Smoking Gun [ Village Voice]. Interrogators were told: ‘If a detainee dies, you’re doing it wrong.’

New Pentagon Top Watchdog: A Part-Time Job [CBS]

Controlled Unclassified Info May Be Classified, US-Czech Doc Says [Secrecy News]

Arlington Cemetery official fired for honoring the wishes of the families of deceased Iraq war soldiers. The Bush admin wants no media coverage [AmericaBlog/WashPost] (Thanks to DM)

E-mail public documents get erased, disappear [AP]

flashback: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now What? [HuffPost]

>> also: The goverment’s unprecedented vaccine-court filing [HuffPost]

Appeal of Vice-President Visitor Logs Lawsuit Dismissed [FOIA Blog]

Intel Official Blasts NYT Disclosure of CIA Interrogator’s Name [Secrecy News]

Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives [NYT]

The Air Force brass is pushing lush travel accommodations for themselves while troops put up with mangled seats on cargo aircraft [POGO]

How reliable is DNA in identifying suspects? [LA Times] “A discovery leads to questions about whether the odds of people sharing genetic profiles are sometimes higher than portrayed. Calling the finding meaningless, the FBI has sought to block such inquiry.”

Embedded Photojournalist Accuses US Military of Censorship After Being Barred for Publishing Photo of Dead Marine [Democracy Now!]

The Dark Side of the Toyota Prius [In These Times]

The Counterculture Colonel [Bohemian]. “During the 1960s, the U.S. Army tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon. Meet the Santa Rosa resident who ran the program”

>> related: Reports on Psychochemical Weapons [Memory Hole]

Scientology’s Crushing Defeat [Village Voice]

Actor plans to film long-lost García Márquez screenplay [Guardian]

Lost Films and TV Programs [AFI]

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This four-volume set of transcripts was available for a single week in 1989. The Government Printing Office then declared that it was unavailable and would never be reprinted.

The volumes are an indispensable resource for anyone interested in governmental connections to the illegal drug trade.

All four volumes - and background info - are posted on this page.

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