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NEW Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Library Catalogue 2024 - [PDF 6.5 MB - 20-Jan-2025]

NEW Department of State Budget Sequestration Plan, 2013 - [PDF 400 KB - 20-Jan-2025]

NEW Table of Contents for Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Manual 2024 - [PDF 1.8 MB - 20-Jan-2025]

NEW National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Records concerning the potential shutdown of WWV/WWVB and WWVH time signal broadcast stations 2017-2019 - [PDF 16 MB - 20-Jan-2025]

NEW United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Legal Considerations Issue Spotter (for use during Activity Development) 2024 - [PDF 345 KB - 20-Jan-2025]

UPDATED List of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during 2021 and 2022 - [PDF 6.1 MB - 20-Jan-2025]

NEW National Security Agency (NSA) Oral History of James W. Pryde, DEFSMAC Director, NSA Oral History. #12-88, 1988 - [PDF 6.3 MB - 20-Jan-2025]

NEW Title of Thesis: Classified Information Leaks: The Need for New Tools in the Plumber's Tool Box 2007. Released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) - [PDF 2.3 MB - 13-Jan-2025]

NEW Title of Thesis: Controversial Interrogation Techniques: Must Use Tradecraft or Counterproductive Methods? 2009. Released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) - [PDF 2 MB - 13-Jan-2025]

NEW Title of Thesis: Hollywood Soldier: Intelligence Support for SOFTWAR Operations 2010. Released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) - [PDF 3.2 MB - 13-Jan-2025]

NEW Title of Thesis: India's Search for Energy Supplies and Potential Impact on U.S. Interests 2009. Released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) - [PDF 1.1 MB - 13-Jan-2025]

NEW Title of Thesis: Non-Lethal Weapons: Weapons of Mass Disruption 2004. Released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) - [PDF 2.6 MB - 13-Jan-2025]

NEW Title of Thesis: Strategic Influence and Persuasion: Semantic Infiltration and the Latest "War of Ideas" 2007. Released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)2 - [PDF 1.8 MB - 13-Jan-2025]

NEW Title of Thesis: Training the Enemy: Terrorist exploitation of privately owned third-party paramilitary training courses in the United States 2007. Released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) - [PDF 7 MB - 13-Jan-2025]

NEW National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) grant application (mid-2023) for: Infrastructure Renewal and Speed Improvement Program (Washington, DC to New Jersey) - [PDF 1.3 MB - 06-Jan-2025]

NEW Reports of Several Department of the Interior (DOI) Inspector General (OIG) Closed Investigations 2014-2020 - [PDF 7.9 MB - 06-Jan-2025]

NEW Title of thesis: Anomalous Human Cognition: A Possible Role within the Crucible of Intelligence, 2010. Released by The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), 2023 - [PDF 8.5 MB - 06-Jan-2025]

NEW Department of the Treasury (USDT) Security Classification Guide Number 1, 2021 - [PDF 790 KB - 06-Jan-2025]

NEW Agreements between the US Marshals Service (USMS) and the Supreme Court regarding the Supreme Court Policy Dignitary Protection Unit 2022 - [PDF 760 KB - 06-Jan-2025]

NEW Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Management Alerts/Advisories 2016-2022 - [PDF 9.4 MB - 06-Jan-2025]

NEW The United States Mint, AE (American Eagle) Platinum & AE Palladium Interest and Preference Research, Contract #TM-HQ-11-C-0060, 2013, Draft Final Report, 2013 - [PDF 1.7 MB - 06-Jan-2025]

NEW Title of Thesis: Anthrax: Indicators of Terrorist Use, 2005 - [PDF 2.3 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Title of Thesis: Chasing Technological Autonomy: Brazilian Defense Policy and Defense Industrial Pursuits 1995-2006, 2007 - [PDF 3.8 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Title of Thesis: Climate Change and United States National Security: Northern China's Water Crisis - A Case Study, 2009 - [PDF 1.4 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Title of Thesis: Cultural Intelligence and International Marketing: A Link Between Miller Lite and the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Process, 2004 - [PDF 1.2 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Title of Thesis: Global Reach: Renditions In U.S. Counterterrorism Operations, 2009 - [PDF 5.7 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Title of Thesis: Intelligence Support to The Life Science Community: Mitigating Threats Posed By Bioterrorism, 2004 - [PDF 1.4 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Title of Thesis: No Need For Another Mi-5: Countering The Homegrown Terrorist Threat Through A Regulated Domestic Intelligence Surveillance Act, 2009 - [PDF 1.7 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Title of Thesis: The Office of the Inspector General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Gasping for A.I. R. E or Alive and Thriving? A Paradigm for Intelligence Community, Inspector General Assessment, 2007 - [PDF 1.3 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Title of Thesis: The Race To The Stratosphere: The Operational State Of Worldwide High-Altitude Long Endurance Lighter-Than Air Systems For Communications And Surveillance By 2020, 2009 - [PDF 3.7 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Title of Thesis: Unlawful Disclosure In The New Information Sharing Era, 2004 - [PDF 1.6 MB - 23-Dec-2024]

NEW Department of Labor (DOL) Office of the Secretary Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Case Log 2020-2024 - [PDF 12.4 MB - 16-Dec-2024]

NEW Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) 20 Week Ahead Reports, 2022 - [PDF 11.9 MB - 16-Dec-2024]

NEW Department of the Interior Memo regarding July 11, 2018 Ethics Discussion with Secretary Ryan Zinke 2018 - [PDF 550 KB - 16-Dec-2024]

NEW Department of Agriculture (USDA) Plan for Next Chapter USDA.gov, the rebuilding of the USDA website and list of 739 public facing web domains (some records undated) - [PDF 760 KB - 16-Dec-2024]

NEW International Trade Administration (ITA) Transition Briefing for the Incoming Biden Administration, 2020 - [PDF 3.3 MB - 16-Dec-2024]

UPDATED Executive summary for 17 Department of State Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigations, 2009, 2012 - [PDF 1.4 MB - 16-Dec-2024]

NEW List of Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) Internal Directives 2021 - [PDF 510 KB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) Memos about the $1 Trillion Coin Proposal 2013-2023 - [PDF 610 KB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW General Services Administration (GSA) Housing Strategy and Migration Plan for FDA Headquarters, 2018 - [PDF 7.5 MB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Transition Briefings for the Incoming Biden Administration 2020 - [PDF 40.6 MB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) Records Disposition Handbook 2022 - [PDF 1.2 MB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Cover page and Table of Contents for engineering reports for the Orion Module Parachute Recovery System 2019 - [PDF 640 KB - 09-Dec-2024]

NEW Farm Credit Administration (FCA) Human Capital Plans 2013-2020 - [PDF 7.5 MB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Reports on Robocalls 2021-2022 - [PDF 9 MB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Library Card Catalog 2022 - [PDF 7.9 MB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Records provided by the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) the FMSHRC to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform during 2022 in response to a request - [PDF 1.5 MB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) External Affairs Tracking Log for the 116th and 117th Congresses, 2019-2023 - [PDF 464 KB - 02-Dec-2024]

NEW Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Withdrawal Procedures - OPS 121, 2020 - [PDF 464 KB - 02-Dec-2024]

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