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RESOURCES FOR CURIOUS READERS

If you’re interested in following the document trail in the future, there are plenty of places to look, including those listed below. I found these links especially useful in putting together this book. It’s time we used the “information age” to our advantage, in reclaiming our democracy from the secret-keepers.

*WIKILEAKS: By the time this book is published, who knows where you’ll find Julian Assange’s team? Right now, you can look at www.mirror.wikileaks.info. They have a list of the growing number of “mirror sites” that plan to publish the State Department cables and other documents. WikiLeaks is a nonprofit organization that launched their website in 2006 and, within their first year of existence, had a database of over 1.2 million documents. They publish submissions of private, secret, and classified documents obtained from anonymous sources and news leaks.

*CRYPTOME: Their website has been around since 1996, hosted in the U.S.A. “Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance—open, secret and classified documents—but not limited to those.” They’ve hosted more than 54,000 files, including suppressed photos of American soldiers killed in Iraq, purported agents for Britain’s MI6, and much more. They have two DVDs loaded with hard-to-find documents leaked by whistleblowers both government and private, available for a $25 donation. Check out http://cryptome.org for some fascinating browsing.

*NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE: This is an independent research institute and library, located on the George Washington University campus. They are an amazing repository of government records listed by topic, historical and contemporary, from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the war in Afghanistan and more. They get their documents by a variety of ways, including the Freedom of Information Act, Mandatory Declassification Review, collections of presidential papers, congressional records, and court testimony. The Archive was behind the groundbreaking legal effort to preserve millions of pages of White House email records from the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. Check out www.nsarchive.org to find the vast amount of material that they’ve gathered.

*GOVERNMENT ATTIC: This website posts electronic copies of hundreds of interesting federal government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. They recently revamped their document menu to consist of four distinct parts: Department of Defense; Department of Justice; Executive Branch Departments, the White House and Legislative Agencies; Independent Federal Agencies, Govt. Corporations and State/Misc. Records. Go to: www.governmentattic.org.

*PUBLIC INTELLIGENCE: Administrator Michael Haynes tells us: “This is an international collaborative research initiative working to facilitate equal access to information by enabling anyone to anonymously submit documents or information for online publication. In less than two years of operation, the site has published thousands of restricted documents related to issues of national security, the war in Afghanistan, banking and international finance, as well as government and corporate surveillance. The site maintains one of the largest collections of documents produced by U.S. fusion centers available to the public.” Go to: http://publicintelligence.net.

*THE MARY FERRELL FOUNDATION: This nonprofit is your best source for documents about the assassinations of the 1960s, the Watergate scandal, and the post-Watergate investigations into intelligence abuses. The digital archive contains over 1.2 million pages of documents, government reports, books, essays, and multimedia. Go to: www.maryferrell.org.

*OPEN THE GOVERNMENT: It’s a coalition composed of journalists, consumer and “good government” groups, library groups, environmentalists, labor and others coming