Author: John Greenewald

Background The below documents were part of a titanium alloy study back in 1949. Document Archive Research and Development on Titanium Alloys, Progress rept. no. 1, 18 May-18 Sep 1949 [76 Pages, 4.5MB] Research and Development on Titanium Alloys, Progress rept. no. 2, 1 Sep-31 Oct 1949 [79 Pages, 5.0MB]

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Background The following transcripts were released on January 15, 2021, by the Senate Judiciary Committee. They were not released entirely searchable, so The Black Vault has processed them all to have a searchable format. The Judiciary Committee also released a press release regarding them, which reads as the following: The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), today released transcripts of interviews conducted during its inquiry into the origins and aftermath of the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation. “I consider the Crossfire Hurricane investigation a massive system failure by senior leadership, but not representative of the dedicated, hardworking…

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Background The Department of Defense posted a detailed planning & execution timeline for the National Guard’s involvement in the January 6, 2021 First Amendment Protests in Washington D.C. The document can be found below. Document Archive Planning and Execution Timeline for the National Guard’s Involvement in the January 6, 2021 First Amendment Protests in Washington D.C. [3 Pages, 1MB]

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Background Below you will find a collection of CIA related UFO records. The Black Vault’s connection to the CIA in getting some of these UFO documents released goes back to 1996. Originally, the CIA would only release about 1,000 pages that had been previously disclosed after a FOIA court case in the 1980s. They never addressed the records that were dated in the years after the case. The Black Vault spent years fighting for them, and many were released in the late 1990s. However, over time, the CIA made a CD-ROM collection of UFO documents, which encompassed the original records,…

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Background There have been a lot of rumors and allegations against what “Mockingbird” actually was, but it appears that quite possibly, there were two project names. One has been confirmed while the other remains elusive (if real at all). Project Mockingbird PROJECT Mockingbird was a wiretapping operation initiated by President John F. Kennedy to identify the sources of government leaks by eavesdropping on the communications of journalists. This is the program mentioned in the CIA records below, and The Black Vault also added records from the Gerald Ford Presidential Library on the same. Operation Mockingbird OPERATION Mockingbird was a alleged…

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