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08.29.12
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08.23.12
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012) was an award-winning science fiction author. In 1968, the FBI briefly investigated him for possible travel to Cuba, which had been banned by U.S. law. The investigation was very limited and was closed when the Bureau determined that Bradbury did not plan to travel Cuba.
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07.17.12
U. S. Senator Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (1917-2010) served as a US Senator for the state of West Virginia from 1958 until his death. This release consists of a large file of FBI correspondence with the Senator and his office over a long period of time and numerous smaller files dealing with threats and other criminal acts directed against the Senator. The material in these files ranges in date from 1955-2003.
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06.15.12
Charlie Wilson
Charles "Charlie" Nesbitt Wilson (1933-2010) served 12-terms as Democratic United States Representative from Texas's 2nd congressional district. He became widely known for his support for funding the Afghan Mujahedeen resistance to USSR occupation. This release consists of more than 3500 pages of FBI investigative records from 1972 to 1999 joint US government investigation into foreign corrupt practices. The material here relates to a side issue developed in the case concerning whether or not Wilson received a substantial kickback from a foreign government for his role in securing a sizable appropriation to arm the Afghan resistance; in 1999, the Department of Justice declined to prosecute, but Wilson did pay a sizable penalty for making loans to himself from his campaign accounts. Other material released includes investigative material related to a possible election law violation by an opponent of Wilson in 1972, the investigation of several threats made against Wilson, the Bureau’s investigation into his possible role in the late 1980s/early 1990s House banking scandal, and some other small matters.
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05.29.12
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05.29.12
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05.29.12
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05.17.12
Ghost Stories: Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Illegals: Images
These pictures were taken or seized during the decade-long Ghost Stories investigation. They are higher quality images of pictures found in the accompanying documents.
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05.15.12
Al Capone: Images
Al Capone- Alcatraz mug shot photos.
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05.14.12
Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone (1899-1947) rose to infamy as a gangster in Chicago during the 1920s and early 1930s. The Bureau of Investigation (the FBI’s predecessor) joined the Bureau of Prohibition and other agencies in investigating Capone. In 1931, Capone was sentenced to prison for tax evasion. Suffering from a case of syphilis that left him too mentally ill to resume his previous criminal activities, he was paroled in 1939 and settled in Florida, where he lived until his death in 1947.
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05.09.12
Sir William S. Stephenson
Sir William S. Stephenson (1897-1989) was a Canadian citizen, soldier, and businessman. During World War II, he created the British Security Coordination, an office in New York that provided official liaison between the United States intelligence services and Great Britain’s MI-5 and MI-6. This previously made release largely consists of materials dated from the 1970s about several books concerning Stephenson and World War II intelligence.
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04.12.12
SOLO
Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, and other communist nations. It officially began in 1958 and ended in 1977, although Morris and Jack Childs, two of the principal agents in the operation, had been involved with the Bureau for several years prior. The files range from March 1958 to April 1966. Read a related story at http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/august/byte-out-of-history-communist-agent-tells-all/.
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04.09.12
Theodore Chaikin Sorensen
Theodore “Ted” Chaiken Sorensen (1928-2010) was a lawyer and speechwriter best known for his long association with the Kennedy family. He served as special counsel to President John F. Kennedy and later as an advisor to Senator Ted Kennedy. This release consists of files ranging from 1948-1998, including several background investigations conducted when the White House nominated Sorensen for various appointed positions such as the Director of Central Intelligence in 1977.
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04.05.12
Attempted Assassination of President Ronald Reagan
On March 31, 1981, John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan and several others in a failed assassination attempt. The FBI conducted an extensive investigation, named REAGAT. This FOIA release consists of an extensive “Prosecutive Report” submitted by the FBI to the Department of Justice in May 1981 as Justice lawyers considered how to prosecute Hinckley for the attacks.
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03.06.12
Charlie Chaplin
Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin (1889-1971) was a comic actor, movie director, and one of the founders of United Artists Pictures, a major Hollywood film studio. This release consists of two types of files, one involving a White Slave Traffic Act (or interstate prostitution) investigation and a domestic security file concerning Chaplin’s ties to communist organizations in the U.S. The dates range from 1922 to 1978.
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02.29.12
Special Intelligence Service
In June 1940, the FBI created a Special Intelligence Service (SIS) to collect intelligence in the western hemisphere, especially against Nazi activities. In 1947, a multi-volume history of this program was written.
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02.08.12
Steven Paul Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (1955-2011) was a founder and leader of Apple Inc. (formerly Apple Computer Inc.). In 1991, Jobs was considered for an appointed position on the U.S. President's Export Council. This release consists of the FBI's 1991 background investigation of Jobs for that position and a 1985 investigation of a bomb threat against Apple.
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01.23.12
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01.18.12
Hubert H. Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (1911-1978) was a U.S. politician who served as mayor of Minneapolis, U.S. senator from Minnesota, and U.S. vice president over the course of a long public career. The more than 2,600 pages posted here were released previously under FOIA. They consist of an extensive file that details the FBI’s relationship with Humphrey from 1945 to 1974. This material contains extensive cordial corrrespondence between Humphrey and the Bureau, the results of background investigations related to Humphrey, and investigations of threats of violence against him. There is also a short file from 1970 in which the Bureau considered whether or not a perjury investigation was warranted against Humphrey or former Howard Hughes’ aide Robert Maheu; in the end, no investigation was pursued.
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01.12.12
Gregory Scarpa, Sr
Gregory Scarpa, Sr. (1928-19940) was a long-time criminal associated with the Colombo family organized crime group in New York. These files concern Scarpa, the Colombo/Profaci La Cosa Nostra crime family, and related matters and range from 1968 to 1993.
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