Analysis and context grounded in declassified U.S. government documents. Published by DeClassX.
A declassified page from the CIA's MKUltra archive sheds unexpected light on the State Department's Office of Controls, revealing its sweeping wartime authority over passports, visas, and counterintelligence coordination with agencies like the OSS and FBI.
A single page from the declassified Zodiac Killer investigative files catalogs two sets of disturbing correspondence: photocopies of three 1967 Riverside letters and a 1978 letter declaring 'I'm back with you'—documents that sit at the heart of one of true crime's most debated cold cases.
A September 1947 FBI memo from the San Francisco field office reveals that Kenneth Arnold — the pilot whose sighting launched the modern UFO era — was being monitored by military intelligence and had plans to publish his account.
A newly surfaced 1947 memo shows the Fourth Air Force quietly routing a flying disc witness statement and newspaper clipping to the FBI's San Francisco field office — a glimpse into the government's early, secretive response to the UFO phenomenon.
A declassified 1975 FBI teletype from San Francisco asks the Bureau's laboratory to compare a suspect's military fingerprints against latent prints collected in the Zodiac investigation — raising questions about who was in the crosshairs and what the results showed.
A sparse but intriguing declassified mission report dated August 4, 1947 — just weeks after the Roswell incident — documents a multi-agency Army operation involving aerial sorties, hundreds of man-hours, and a set of photographs that remain unseen.
A newly spotlighted FBI document marked 'Confidential' captures newspaper reporting from July 5, 1947, detailing how Portland police officers, harbor patrol crews, and civilians all witnessed strange disk-like objects in the sky — just days after the famous Kenneth Arnold sighting.