The Evidence Record

The Evidence Record

• Richard A. Arenberg: Oral History Interviews (Senate Historical Office)

  Transcript · 2010

  Richard A. Arenberg; Senate Historical Office

  A Senate staffer's 2010 oral history describing the Greenbrier congressional bunker: more than 112,000 square feet, steel-reinforced walls two feet thick.

• Sandia: Active Denial Technology (2005)

  Government Record · 2005

  Sandia National Laboratories

  Sandia National Laboratories, 2005: the Active Denial System fires a 95 GHz beam that penetrates about 1/64 inch into skin, causing intense pain. Exposure is limited…

• Securing Australia’s Sovereignty (Pine Gap statement)

  Government Record · 2023

  Richard Marles, Australian Minister for Defence

  Australia's Defence Minister on Pine Gap: jointly run with the United States for intelligence, communications, counterterrorism, arms-control verification and missile early warning, with half the staff…

• Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964

  Government Record · 2000

  National Security Agency (Robert J. Hanyok, Cryptologic Quarterly)

  An internal NSA history by agency historian Robert J. Hanyok, published in the classified Cryptologic Quarterly and declassified in 2005. It concludes that the second reported…

• Smithsonian: BEAR Neutral Particle Beam Accelerator

  Document

  Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

  Smithsonian Air and Space Museum: its BEAR particle-beam accelerator. "No deployed weapon has ever employed this technology."

• The Battle for Iran (CIA History Staff)

  Government Record · 2014

  Central Intelligence Agency, History Staff

  The CIA History Staff's internal history of the 1953 Iran coup, released in redacted form through the National Security Archive in 2014. It states directly that…

• The CIA and the Media (Carl Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 1977)

  News Report · 1977

  Rolling Stone (Carl Bernstein)

  Carl Bernstein's 1977 investigation into the CIA's relationships with American journalists. This is the source of the widely repeated figure of more than 400 journalists. The…

• The Greenbrier Goes to War (National Park Service)

  Government Record · 2022

  National Park Service

  The National Park Service's history of the Greenbrier bunker: the government renewed its lease in 1957 to build it, finished it in 1962 for all 535…

• The Gulf of Tonkin, the 1964 Incidents: Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1968)

  Transcript · 1968

  Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

  The 1968 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in which Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara defended the account of the August 1964 attacks as senators questioned whether…

• The Role of Metallurgy in the NIST Investigation of the World Trade Center Towers Collapse

  Peer-Reviewed Study

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  NIST’s own metallurgical findings from the World Trade Center investigation, published in JOM in November 2007. Authored by seven NIST scientists. This paper contains the figure…

• The Ultimate Congressional Hideaway

  News Report · 1992

  Ted Gup, The Washington Post

  Ted Gup's 1992 Washington Post Magazine investigation that exposed the secret congressional bunker under the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, built starting in 1959 and ready…

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Public Law 88-408 (1964)

  Government Record · 1964

  United States Congress

  The joint resolution Congress passed after the reported August 1964 attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin. It authorized the President to use military force in Southeast…

• Trump at the UN General Assembly: Iran and the Saudi Oil Attack (2019)

  Government Record · 2019

  President Donald J. Trump

  President Trump at the UN, September 2019: blamed Iran for the attack on Saudi oil facilities and announced sanctions. The government's position.

• UN Panel of Experts on Yemen: Final Report on the Abqaiq Attack (2020)

  Document · 2020

  Panel of Experts on Yemen

  UN Panel of Experts on Yemen, January 2020: the 2019 attack on Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil facility used drones and cruise missiles, and the Houthis were…

• Underminer Program Demonstrates Feasibility of Rapid Tunnel Construction (DARPA)

  Government Record · 2022

  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  DARPA's 2022 release saying Underminer demonstrated rapid tactical tunneling and moved to partners. It does not say whether the 1,200-feet-per-hour target was reached.

• Underminer: Rapid Creation of Tactical Tunnel Networks (DARPA)

  Government Record · 2020

  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  DARPA's 2020 announcement of Underminer, a program to build military tunnel networks fast with drilling, boring and robotics.

• United States Army Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2001

  Government Record

  Department of the Army

  The Army's own financial report for fiscal 2001, the year after Rumsfeld's $2.3 trillion speech. It states that because of the September 11 attacks, the Army…

• United States v. Moalin, 973 F.3d 977 (9th Cir. 2020)

  Court Filing · 2020

  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  The federal appeals court ruling that the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' telephone metadata violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may have violated the Fourth…