The FBI Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reading Room is located within the J. Edgar Hoover Building at FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Thousands of pages of frequently requested FBI documents that have been released under the provisions of the FOIA are stored in the Reading Room. The FBI has converted many of these documents to an electronic format (PDF) and they may be viewed on this website. The documents available in the Reading Room are listed below, with those available on-line hyperlinked (underlined). In the case of voluminous pages, only summaries or excerpts from the documents are on-line.
| Alcatraz Escape -- 1,757 pages |
| Ali, Noble Drew (see Moorish Science Temple of America) |
| Amerasia
-- 12,853 pages a. Headquarters -- 7,175 pages b. New York -- 5,678 pages |
| America First Committee -- 2,939 pages |
| American Friends Service Committee -- 3,498 pages |
| American Indian Movement -- 17,722 pages |
| American POWs/MIAs in Southeast Asia -- 6,944 pages |
| Ananda Marga -- 1,510 pages |
| Anglin, John and Clarence (see Alcatraz Escape) |
| Animal Mutilation Project -- 128 pages |
| Aryan Brotherhood -- 141 pages |
| Atlanta Child Murders (ATKID) -- 2,825 pages |
| Atlanta FBI Field Office -- Hostage Situation -- 269 pages |
| Baby Face Nelson -- 224 pages |
| Baker, Josephine -- 359 pages |
| Ball, Lucille -- 142 pages |
| Barbie, Klaus -- 76 pages |
| Barker, Arthur -- 252 pages |
| Barker, Fred -- 16 pages |
| Barker, Herman -- 190 pages |
| Barker, Lloyd -- 11 pages |
| Barker, Kate "Ma" -- 6 pages |
| Barker/Karpis
Gang -- 76,159 pages a. Hamm Kidnapping -- 5,249 pages b. Edward Bremer Kidnapping -- 70,910 pages |
| Barker-Karpis Gang (summary) -- 57 pages |
| Barnes, George "Machine Gun Kelly" -- 8,748 pages |
| Barnes, George "Machine Gun Kelly" (summary) -- 14 pages |
| Barrow, Clyde (see Bonnie and Clyde) |
| Black, Hugo -- 156 pages |
| Black Legion -- 964 pages |
| Black Panther Party-Winston Salem, NC --2,895 pages |
| Blunt, Anthony -- 37 pages |
| Bonnie
and Clyde (summary) -- 3 pages (Additional 461 pages, mainly newspaper articles, most of which illegible.) |
| Bonus March -- 232 pages |
| Booth, John Wilkes -- 184 pages |
| Bowtie (Profumo Matter) -- 2,423 pages |
| Brecht, Bertolt -- 369 pages |
| Bundy, Theodore Robert -- 257 pages |
| Burger, Warren E. -- 743 pages |
| Burgess, Guy (see Philby, Kim) |
| Cambridge Spy Ring (see Philby, Kim) |
| Capone, Alphonse -- 2,397 pages |
| Chambers, Whittaker (see Hiss, Alger/Chambers, Whittaker) |
| Chavez, Cesar and United Farm Workers -- 2,021 pages |
| Churchill, Winston -- 220 pages |
| Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam -- 1,699 pages |
| Cohen,
Morris and Lona -- 299 pages (Limited release, Sections 1, 16, 32 & 62 only) |
| Cohn, Roy M. -- 3,584 pages (see Rosenberg, Ethel & Julius) |
| Cointelpro
(12 Programs) -- 52,680 pages a. Black Extremist Hate Groups -- 6,106 pages b. Cointelpro-Espionage Programs -- 482 pages c. CPUSA -- 30,743 pages d. Cuban Matters (Pro Castro) -- 59 pages e. Disruption of White Hate Groups -- 5,457 pages f. Hoodwink (To Cause Dispute Between CPUSA and "LCN ") -- 60 pages g. Mexican CP Matter (Border Coverage Program) -- 122 pages h. New Left -- 6,244 pages i. Puerto Rican (Groups Seeking Puerto Rican Independence) -- 1,190 pages j. Socialist Workers Party -- 688 pages k. Special Operations (Nationalities Intelligence) -- 1,450 pages l. Yugoslav (Violence Prone Yugoslav Emigres in U. S. ) -- 84 pages |
| Comments Re: Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Agencies Act (CALEA) -- 1,732 pages |
| Communist Infiltration-Motion Picture Industry (COMPIC) -- 13, 533 pages |
| Council on Foreign Relations -- 492 pages |
| Custodial
Detention
--
34,207
pages a. Headquarters Main File -- 647 pages 1. June 15, 1940 - June 21, 1940 -- 36 pages 2. February 24, 1943 - May 27, 1968 -- 611 pages b. Headquarters Sub Files -- 13,692 pages 1. Anchorage -- 85 pages 2. Dallas -- 133 pages Dec. 7, 1941 - March 4, 1942 -- 108 pages March 6, 1943 - January 1, 1944 -- 25 pages 3. Denver -- 397 pages 4. El Paso -- 462 pages 5. Honolulu -- 657 pages 6. Houston-May 6, 1941 - March 24, 1942 -- 294 pages 7. Los Angeles -- 474 pages December 8 and 9, 1941 -- 155 pages Jan. 22, 1942 - Feb. 24, 1942 -- 167 pages April 16, 1942 - June 6, 1942 -- 152 pages 8. New York -- 1,859 pages 9. Philadelphia -- 510 pages 10. Phoenix -- 492 pages 11. Pittsburgh -- 260 pages 12. Portland -- 698 pages 13. San Antonio -- 317 pages 14. San Diego -- 343 pages May 6, 1941 - July 6, 1942 -- 267 pages Sep. 12, 1942 - January 3, 1945 -- 76 pages 15. San Francisco -- 1,122 pages 16. Presidential Arrest Warrants -- 4,756 pages 17. Japanese Activities-Hawaiian Islands -- 833 pages October 26, 1940 - March 12, 1942 -- 215 pages April 17, 1942 - May 11, 1942 -- 274 pages May 23, 1943 - August 28, 1943 -- 245 pages March 11, 1942 - May 27, 1959 -- 99 pages c. Communist Sabotage (COMSAB) -- 371 pages d. Detention of Communists (DETCOM) -- 8,028 pages e. DETCOM Department Approval -- 1,082 pages Dec. 19, 1952 - April 14, 1953 -- 192 pages May 14, 1971 - July 18, 1975 -- 890 pages f. Security Index -- 10,387 pages 1. Headquarters Main File -- 8,870 pages 2. Headquarters Sub File, New York -- 1,517 pages |
| D'Aquino, Iva Ikako Toguri (see Tokyo Rose) |
| Daily Worker -- 223 pages |
| Dalitz, Morris B. -- 2,729 pages |
| Darrow, Clarence Seward -- 11 pages |
| Deacons for Defense and Justice -- 1,580 pages |
| DeSalvo, Albert -- 122 pages |
| Dies, Martin -- 50 pages |
| Dillinger, John Herbert (Summary) -- 157 pages |
| Dillinger, John (Gang) -- 36,795 pages |
| Donovan, William J. -- 747 pages |
| DuBois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) -- 927 pages |
| Earhart, Amelia -- 56 pages |
| Einstein, Albert -- 1,427 pages |
| Eisler, Hanns -- 686 pages |
| Fard,
Wallace D.
--
816 pages a. Headquarters -- 372 pages b. Detroit -- 99 pages c. Chicago -- 345 pages |
| Faulkner, William Cuthbert -- 18 pages |
| Five Percenters -- 132 pages |
| Floyd, Charles "Pretty Boy" (see Pretty Boy Floyd and Kansas City Massacre summary) -- 15,786 pages |
| Flynn, Errol -- 391 pages |
| Ford, Henry -- 376 pages |
| Foreign Counterintelligence Manual (Released June 1985) -- 150 pages |
| Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts Reference Manual -- 846 pages |
| Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts Annual Statistical Report -- 245 pages |
| Gacy, John Wayne -- 17 pages |
| Galante, Carmine -- 1,213 pages |
| Gambino, Carlo --1,239 pages |
| Garvey, Marcus -- 1,407 pages |
| Gay Activists Alliance -- 534 pages |
| Gay Liberation Front -- 1,113 pages |
| Genovese, Vito -- 102 pages |
| Giancana, Sam M. (1/1/1960 - 12/31/1963) -- 2,781 pages |
| Gillis, Lester Joseph (see Baby Face Nelson) -- pages 224 |
| Greenlease Kidnapping (Summary) -- 225 pages |
| Hammer, Armand/Occidental Petroleum -- 658 pages |
| Hanfstangl, Ernst Franz Sedwick "Putzi" -- 122 pages |
| Hell's Angels -- 233 pages |
| Highlander Folk School -- 1,107 pages |
| The Hindenburg Disaster -- 337 pages |
| Hiss, Alger/Chambers, Whittaker -- 46,213 pages |
| Hitler, Adolph -- 734 pages |
| Hoffman,
Abbie H.
-- 13,262 pages a. Headquarters -- 7,794 pages b. New York -- 5,468 pages |
| Hoover,
J. Edgar
--1,662 pages See a. Official & Confidential Files of J. Edgar Hoover b. Telephone Logs & Appointments of J. Edgar Hoover |
| Interpol (International Police May 1935 - July 1950 -- 1,758 pages |
| Jones, Jim (see Jonestown) |
| Jonestown
-- 48,738 pages Summary -- 365 pages |
| Kansas City Massacre (see Floyd, Charles "Pretty Boy") |
| Karpis, Alvin -- 2,360 pages |
| Kelly, Machine Gun (See Barnes, George) |
| Kennedy, Jacqueline (limited) -- 4 pages |
| Kennedy, John F., Jr. -- 178 pages |
| Kennedy, Joseph P. -- 1,011 pages |
| Kennedy, Robert F. -- 1,263 pages |
| Kennedy,
Robert F. Assassination -- 3,775 pages Summary -- 138 pages |
| Kent State Shooting -- 8,445 pages |
| Kent State Shooting, ROTC Fire Bomb -- 1,146 pages |
| King,
Martin Luther, Jr. -- 16,659 pages Summary -- 221 pages |
| King,
Martin Luther, Jr., Assassination (MURKIN) -- 39, 237 pages a. Headquarters -- 21,774 pages b. Atlanta -- 2,327 pages c. Birmingham -- 2,162 pages d. Chicago -- 958 pages e. Los Angeles -- 2,495 pages f. Memphis -- 7,451 pages g. New Orleans -- 1,175 pages h. St. Louis -- 346 pages i. Washington Field -- 549 pages |
| Korean Airline Flight 007 -- 80 pages |
| Krivitsky, Walter G. -- 570 pages |
| Ku Klux Klan -- 588 pages |
| Lattimore, Owen (May 1941 - May 1950) -- 5,161 pages |
| Legal Handbook for Special Agents (Released 1998) -- 192 pages |
| Lennon, John Winston -- 248 pages |
| Levison,
Stanley D.
-- 11,408
pages a. Headquarters -- 1,699 pages b. New York -- 9,593 pages c. Other Field Offices -- 116 pages |
| Lewis, John L. -- 2,815 pages |
| Lindbergh, Charles Augustus --1,368 pages |
| Little,
Malcolm X
--
11,674 pages a. Headquarters -- 4,065 pages b. New York -- 7,239 pages c. Chicago -- 253 pages d. Phoenix -- 17 pages e. Washington -- 100 pages |
| Liuzzo, Viola Murder (Civil Rights Investigation) -- 1,520 pages |
| London, Jack -- 47 pages |
| Long, Huey P. -- 1,818 pages |
| Luciano, Charles "Lucky" -- 548 pages |
| MacLean, Donald (see Philby, Kim) |
| Mafia Monograph -- 284 pages |
| Majestic 12 -- 22 pages |
| Mann, Thomas -- 95 pages |
| Mantle, Mickey -- 29 pages |
| Manual of Administrative Operations and Procedures (MAOP) -- 1,886 pages |
| Manual
of Investigations Operations and Guidelines (MIOG)(with Revision
dated 8/21/1987) -- 2,134 pages Supplemental Package-Updates 1996 -- 610 pages |
| Marcantonio, Vito -- 993 pages |
| Marshall, Thurgood -- 1,394 pages |
| McCarthy, Joseph -- 4,296 pages |
| Mencken, Henry Louis -- 55 pages |
| Mississippi
Burning (MIBURN) -- 948 pages Prosecutive Summary 9/15-30/1964 -- 713 pages 12/2/1964 Decision for Federal Prosecution -- 235 pages |
| Monroe, Marilyn (Norma Jean Baker) -- 97 pages |
| Morris, Frank Lee (see Alcatraz Escape) |
| Moorish Science Temple of America -- 3,117 pages |
| Muhammad, Elijah -- 2,885 pages |
| Muslim Mosque, Inc. -- 2,754 pages |
| National Alliance -- 1,785 pages |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (August 1923 - November 1957) -- 5,671 pages |
| National Council of Churches (NCC) -- 6,454 pages |
| National Negro Congress -- 3,017 pages |
| Ness, Eliot -- 129 pages |
| Nureyev, Rudolph -- 160 pages |
| Official and Confidential (O&C) Files of J. Edgar Hoover -- 17,154 pages |
| Onassis, Aristotle -- 806 pages |
| Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy (see Kennedy, Jacqueline) |
| Oppenheimer, Frank -- 519 pages |
| Oppenheimer, J. Robert (Rosenberg Related Material) -- 7,336 pages |
| Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) -- 1,243 pages |
| Orwell, George -- 79 pages |
| Osage Indian Murders -- 3,274 pages |
| Parker, Bonnie (see Bonnie and Clyde) |
| Parker, Mack Charles (Summary Report, April 1959) -- 370 pages |
| Parsons, John Whiteside -- 130 pages |
| Penn, Lemuel A. (PENVIC) -- 5,179 pages |
| Peoples Temple (see Jonestown) |
| Philby, Kim/MacLean, Donald/Burgess, Guy (Cambridge Spy Ring) -- 3,219 pages |
| Picasso, Pablo --188 pages |
| Poole, Elijah (see Muhammad, Elijah) |
| Posse Comitatus -- 2,147 pages |
| Presley, Elvis A. -- 663 pages |
| Pretty Boy Floyd and Kansas Massacre (Summary) 8/31/99 |
| Project Blue Book --12 pages |
| Purple Gang -- 333 pages |
| Purvis, Melvin -- 2,460 pages |
| Randolph, A. Philip -- 767 pages |
| Remington, William Walter -- 9,243 pages |
| Reich, Wilhelm -- 789 pages |
| Robeson, Paul and Eslanda (Essie) -- 2,680 pages |
| Robinson, Jackie -- 131 pages |
| Rockefeller, Nelson -- 2,482 pages |
| Rockwell, George Lincoln -- 674 pages |
| Rogers, William Penn Adian (Will Rogers) -- 7 pages |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor -- 3,271 pages |
| Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Assassination Attempt) -- 254 pages |
| Roselli, John -- 10,969 pages |
| Rosenberg,
Julius and Ethel approximately 142,000 pages a. Case Summary -- 171 pages b. Principal Subjects 1. Brothman, Abraham -- 6,258 pages 2. Elitcher, Max -- 2,569 pages 3. Fuchs, Klaus -- 7,307 pages 4. Gold, Harry -- 12,834 pages 5. Greenglass, David and Ruth -- 4,343 pages 6. Rosenberg, Julius -- 21,504 pages 7. Rosenberg, Ethel -- 456 pages 8. Sobell, Morton -- 12,619 pages 9. Vago, Oscar -- 1,404 pages 10. Yakovlev, Anatoli -- 1,536 pages c. Other Subjects 1. Alsher, Ruth -- 58 pages 2. Barr, Arthur -- 6 pages 3. Barr, Joel -- 1,119 pages 4. Bentley, Elizabeth -- 1,968 pages 5. Black, Thomas -- 5,654 pages 6. Bloch, Manual -- 427 pages 7. Cohn, Roy (see Cohn, Roy M.) -- 4 pages 8. Danziger, Silva -- 61 pages 9. Danziger, William -- 877 pages 10. Dayton, Weldon -- 2,026 pages 11. Derry, John -- 0 pages 12. Donner, Frank -- 1,565 pages 13 Elitcher, Helene -- 57 pages 14. Fineberg, Herbert -- 0 pages 15. Finestone, Maxwell -- 3,151 pages 16. Fitzpatrick, John -- 0 pages 17. Fookson, Abraham -- 233 pages 18. Glassman, Vivian -- 2,057 pages 19. Heineman, Krist & Robert -- 390 pages 20. Javna, Carla Small -- 137 pages 21. Jones, Thomas -- 4 pages 22. Josephson, Gloria -- 266 pages 23. Kaufman, Irving R. -- 18 pages 24. Kinoy, Arthur -- 541 pages 25. Kistiakowski, George -- 5 pages 26. Koski, Walter -- 0 pages 27. Kuntz, Edward J. -- 94 pages 28. Levine, Samuel -- 196 pages 29. Levitov, David -- 9 pages 30. Marshman, Wendell -- 0 pages 31. Miller, Max -- 0 pages 32. Murray, Richard -- 0 pages 33. National Committee to Secure Justice for Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell -- 22, 011 pages 34. Oppenheimer, J. Robert (see Oppenheimer, J. Robert) 35. Page, Mark -- 657 pages 36. Page, Stella -- 8 pages 37. Pasternak, Florence -- 642 pages 38. Pasternak, Louis -- 500 pages 39. Pasternak, Morris -- 577 pages 40. Perl, William -- 3,730 pages 41. Perlin, Marshall -- 436 pages 42. Powell, Sarah -- 94 pages 43. Rich, Stanley -- 555 pages 44. Rogge, O. John -- 711 pages 45. Sarant, Alfred -- 5,669 pages 46. Saypol, Irving -- 10 pages 47. Schwartz, Emanuel -- 75 pages 48. Sidorovrich, Michel & Anne -- 6,038 pages 49. Smith, Ralph Carlisle -- 0 pages 50. Sobell, Helen -- 3,307 pages 51. Sobell, Louis -- 7 pages 52. Sobell, Rose -- 503 pages 53. Surovell, Abraham Jacob -- 501 pages 54. Urey, Harold -- 683 pages 55. Vago, John O. -- 654 pages 56. Walker, Andrew -- 52 pages 57. Weinstein, Edward James -- 1,745 pages 58. Zuckerman, Benjamin -- 254 pages |
| Roswell (see Unidentified Flying Objects) |
| Rowe, Gary Thomas (see Liuzzo, Viola Murder) |
| Rudolph, Arthur Louis Hugo -- 107 pages |
| Rukeyser, Muriel -- 118 pages |
| Ryan, Leo J., Murder (RYMUR)(see Jonestown) |
| Sacco, Nicola/Vanzetti, Bartolomeo -- 2,189 pages |
| St. Valentine's Day Massacre -- 107 pages |
| Shooting Incident, Miami, Florida, 4/11/86 -- 600 pages |
| Siegel,
Benjamin "Bugsy" -- 2,421 pages a. Headquarters -- 1,443 pages b. Los Angeles -- 109 pages c. San Francisco -- 869 pages |
| Silvermaster,
Nathan Gregory
-- 50,971 pages a. Headquarters -- 22,582 pages b. Headquarters Surveillance Logs -- 9,813 pages c. New York Surveillance Logs -- 7,623 pages d. Washington Metropolitan Surveillance Logs -- 10,953 pages |
|
Sinatra,
Frank Albert
-- 2,403 pages |
| Smith, Clarence 13X -- 80 pages |
| Smith, Gerald L.K. -- 2,211 pages |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -- 11,512 pages |
| Special Intelligence Service (SIS)/Basque -- 814 pages |
| Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion -- 170 pages |
| Spellman,
Francis (Cardinal) -- 536 pages a. Headquarters -- 449 pages b. New York -- 87 pages |
| Spilotro, Anthony -- 240 pages |
| Steinbeck, John -- 94 pages |
| Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) (see Weatherman Underground) |
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (Reports Only) -- 2,887 pages |
| Supreme Court -- 3,474 pages |
| Surreptitious Entries -- 2,898 pages |
| Tesla, Nikola -- 252 pages |
| Telephone Logs/Appointments/Calendars of J. Edgar Hoover -- 33,847 pages |
| Tokyo Rose (Iva Ikako Toguri D'Aquino) -- 738 pages |
| Tolson,
Clyde A.
-- 2,141 pages a. Personnel File -- 1,240 pages b. Memos Maintained in Office -- 901 pages |
| Tresca, Carlo -- 1,358 pages |
| Trotsky, Leon -- 909 pages |
| Unidentified
Flying Objects --1,600
pages a. Roswell -- 1 page |
| United Farm Workers (see Chavez, Cesar) |
| Venona -- 73 pages |
| Von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian -- 482 pages |
| Waco/Branch Davidian Compound (Negotiation Transcripts) -- 21,819 pages |
| Waco -- 772 pages |
| Watergate -- 16,277 pages |
| Wayne, John -- 48 pages |
| Weatherman
Underground --
10,984 pages Summary Dated 8/20/76 -- 479 pages |
| White, Harry Dexter -- 6,457 pages |
| Wilkins, Roy -- 967 pages |
| Williams, Wayne B. (see Atlanta Child Murders) |
| Winchell, Walter -- 3,908 pages |
| Windsor, Duke and Duchess -- 144 pages |
| Wright,
Richard Nathaniel
--
235 pages a. Headquarters -- 169 pages b. New York -- 58 pages c. Washington Metropolitan -- 8 pages |
| Yardley, Herbert Osborne -- 199 pages |
| Young Communist League -- 191 pages |
| Zangara, Guiseppe (See Roosevelt, Franklin D.) |
| Zwillman, Abner "Longie" -- 747 pages |
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