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Primary documents
- Children of Men (2006): BFI record
Document · 2006
British Film Institute
British Film Institute record for Children of Men (2006), from P.D. James's 1992 novel about a world where women can no longer have children.
- Church Committee Book III: COINTELPRO (1976)
Government Record · 1976
U.S. Senate Select Committee; AARC Library reproduction
Senate Church Committee, 1976: COINTELPRO was a set of secret FBI programs against domestic groups meant to "disrupt" and "neutralize" targets. It found many methods would…
- Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence (1976)
Government Record · 1976
Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee)
Book I of the Senate Select Committee's final report on U.S. intelligence agencies. It covers the CIA's drug and behavior-control testing, including MKULTRA, and the CIA's…
- CIA “Family Jewels” Memorandum (1973)
Government Record · 1973
Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA's internal 1973 compilation of its own activities that may have violated its charter, released in 2007. It records Project MOCKINGBIRD, the 1963 telephone taps…
- CIA Family Jewels: Project MOCKINGBIRD, Telephone Taps of Newspaper Columnists
Government Record · 1963
Central Intelligence Agency / Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
The CIA "Family Jewels" file on Project Mockingbird: the CIA tapped the home and office phones of two Washington newspaper columnists in 1962 to 1963.
- CIA History: Hearts and Minds, Covert Support of Anti-Communist Groups, Part 10 (Congress for Cultural Freedom)
Government Record · 1999
Michael Warner / CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
The CIA's own declassified history of its covert Cold War funding: the agency quietly took control of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a front that backed…
- CIA History: Hearts and Minds, Covert Support of Anti-Communist Groups, Part 12 (the 1967 exposure)
Government Record · 1999
Michael Warner / CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
The same CIA history on 1967, when news stories exposed the agency's secret sponsorship of dozens of American academic, labor and cultural groups within a week.
- CIA Inspector General: Report of Audit, CIA Processes for Engaging With the Entertainment Industry (2012)
Government Record · 2012
CIA Office of Inspector General
The CIA Inspector General's 2012 audit of how the agency deals with Hollywood. It found the CIA's records could not show its entertainment requests were handled…
- CIA Studies in Intelligence: Review of the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom (2017)
Government Record · 2017
Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake
CIA's Studies in Intelligence reviews a book on the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom, including the 1967 scandal that exposed the covert funding.
- CIA v. Sims, 471 U.S. 159 (1985)
Court Filing · 1985
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court, CIA v. Sims (1985): records that MKULTRA researchers secretly gave LSD and other dangerous drugs to unwitting people. The case was about keeping the…
- CIA: Examples of CIA Entertainment Industry Outreach
Government Record · 2019
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA document listing examples of its work with the entertainment industry: script advice, meetings, tours and some script review. The CIA says the list is not…
- Clinton Foundation: Bono and Featured Participants at CGI 2022
Document · 2022
Clinton Foundation
Clinton Foundation, 2022: Bono and (RED) took part in the Clinton Global Initiative meeting.
- Clinton: Statement on Signing the Telecommunications Act (1996)
Government Record · 1996
President William J. Clinton
President Clinton, February 8, 1996: signed the Telecommunications Act, noting it raised the national TV audience cap from 25 to 35 percent. A Clinton-era law, not…
- Coalition Letter to Spotify on Emotion-Recognition Technology (2021)
Document · 2021
Access Now and coalition of musicians and human-rights organizations
Musicians and rights groups' May 2021 letter demanding Spotify promise never to use, license or sell its voice-emotion technology.
- Coca-Cola: Taylor Swift Diet Coke Partnership (2013)
Corporate Filing · 2013
The Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola, January 28, 2013: announced a long-term partnership with Taylor Swift for Diet Coke.
- Cohen v. Kabbalah Centre International (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)
Court Filing · 2019
California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District
California Court of Appeal, 2019: a donor sued the Kabbalah Centre to get her donations back. The court rejected her fraud claims and revived only a…
- Comcast 2025 Form 10-K: Versant Spin-Off Completed (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2025
Comcast Corporation
Comcast annual report for 2025, filed February 2026: on January 2, 2026 Comcast completed spinning off Versant, holding MS NOW and CNBC, as a separate public…
- Comet Ping Pong Gunman Pleads Guilty (2017)
Government Record · 2017
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia
Justice Department, March 2017: Edgar Welch pleaded guilty to bringing a loaded rifle into Comet Ping Pong in Washington and firing it, after reading online rumors…
- Comet Ping Pong Gunman Sentenced to Four Years (2017)
Government Record · 2017
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia
Justice Department, June 2017: Edgar Welch sentenced to four years in prison for the armed assault at Comet Ping Pong.
- Contagion (2011): release record
Document · 2011
Rotten Tomatoes
Catalog record: Contagion opened in theaters September 9, 2011, about 8 years before COVID-19 appeared.
- Contagion film plausible, CDC says
News Report · 2011
Associated Press; CBC News
AP, September 2011: the CDC let Contagion film on its main campus, the first major studio allowed to, and a CDC disease investigator coached Kate Winslet…
- Cook et al.: Quantifying the Consensus on Global Warming (2013)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2013
John Cook et al.
Cook et al., 2013: reviewed 11,944 climate abstracts. 66.4% took no position, 32.6% endorsed human-caused warming and 0.7% rejected it. The 97.1% figure counts only abstracts…
- Cook et al.: Reply to Tol’s Comment on the Consensus Study (2016)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016
John Cook et al.
Cook et al., Environmental Research Letters: the authors reply to Tol that papers taking no position were rightly left out of the 97% count and that…
- CPD Response to OIG Advisory on Predictive Risk Models
Government Record · 2020
Chicago Police Department
The Chicago Police Department's response to the Inspector General: it says it shut down the Strategic Subject List after review.