Monday, February 20, 2012

Internet Resource - The Vault

Did you ever want to read the FBI files on ( Albert Einstein, Al Capone, John Lennon, Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, POW/MIAs, PETA, SNCC, ESP,Roswell, and much more? Now you can go to The Vault, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies.

This public access site was developed in response to the Freedom of Information Act. It does include a search mechanism and category browsing You can search the Vault by keyword and topic from Anti-War to Hot topics to Violent Crime. The site does provide some interesting insights into FBI case files but many of the PDF files of declassified records have been heavily scrubbed by blacking out names or phrases that might refer to classified information.

This website offer a unique opportunity to the public to view records that were previously closed



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