Background The Investigator was the internal, employees-only publication of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was produced by FBI employees for many decades. The first issue, appeared in May 1932, and was mimeographed and two pages in length. Over the years, the publication included hundreds of fascinating articles about FBI History. Although a few years of this publication have been released, most years have not yet been requested or released. The FBI has some 28,000 pages of records associated with The Investigator. In 1953, the FBI established the Publications Unit of the Crime Records Division. The Publications Unit produced The Investigator as…
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The Video The Background A “Quick Blast” coming your way, on a strange (but coincidental?) connection between the chairman of the CIA’s Robertson Panel and the alleged (and likely hoaxed) MJ-12 Group. What’s the story? Here it is! —– SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL TO MAKE VIDEOS LIKE THIS POSSIBLE: https://www.patreon.com/theblackvault —– Quick Links Twitter Thread Howard Robertson FBI File MJ-12 Related Documents
Background These SF-135 are document transmittal slips, created when information is transferred from one agency to a federal records center. Rebecca Collier from HistoryHub, explains: “A SF-135 is a ‘Records Transmittal and Receipt’ used by a Federal Agency when the records are deposited in a Federal Records Center. In Item #6 of the form, agencies must include a detailed folder listing for each box or as an attachment if the records are scheduled for permanent retention. More information about the SF 135 is available at https://www.archives.gov/frc/forms/sf-135-intro. A listing of documents in a folder is considered item level description. Agencies are…
Background The following document was obtained by The Black Vault through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and was part of the “Stargate Collection” release. This document, titled “Mars Exploration,” dated May 22, 1984, records a remote viewing session conducted as part of the CIA’s Stargate Program. In the session, a remote viewer was provided with geographic coordinates and tasked with viewing the planet Mars at a time period approximately one million years B.C. The transcript describes large pyramid structures, megalithic architecture with smooth walls carved into canyons, deep channels, severe dust storms resulting from major geologic activity, and very…
Background The following document was first released in 2005. In February of 2019, The Black Vault filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request for the record to be further declassified. Although some information was, there was not a lot newly revealed. The 2019 released version is shown below. Document Archive Trip to NSA at Ft. Meade, 29 November 1958 [4 Pages, 1.5MB]