I will be scanning and posting FBI files I’ve acquired via the FOIA here; and links to scanned files elsewhere. (In progress.)
FBI files, otherwise, are acquired via FOIA from the FBI or at the FBI Vault online; from the National Archives and here at the Archives; FOLD3 has early Bureau of Investigation records that are the ones on microfilm at the NARA (The Miscellaneous Files; Old German Files, Mexican Files, & Bureau Section Files); the largest collection (& least redacted due to AT’s appeals) outside of the government is Athan Theoharis’ collection at Marquette University.
Also MuckRock; Internet Archive
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FBI Files Related to LGBTQ Americans:
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Early FBI
Document that marks the founding of the FBI, 1908.
Attorney General Charles Bonaparte 1909 Letter to President Teddy Roosevelt explaining creation of the FBI in 1908
Bureau Chief Stanley Finch speech on the White Slave Traffic, 1912
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FBI Files Related to Obscenity/Pornography:
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Files on various FBI officials/agents: (the last volume of their files, or thereabouts, usually gives a career/job title summary; unless they stayed in touch with Hoover.)
- Clegg, Hugh, FBI assistant director (Inspection & Training Division); Documents about 1940-41 secret mission to the UK: ““Before the Colonel Arrived” article
- DeLoach, Cartha, FBI deputy associate director (Crime Records) : 1, 2, 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 5, 6
- Felt, Mark, FBI associate director 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 3, 4, 5a,
- Flanagan, Francis, FBI agent & chief counsel Hoey Committee: sec1, sec2, sec3
- Hince, Lawrence, FBI agent, documents about 1940-41 secret mission to the UK
- Jones, Milton, unit chief Crime Records 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Ladd, D. Milton, FBI assistant to the director (also Domestic Intelligence Division) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Laughlin, Leo, special agent in charge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Laughlin documents I apparently pulled from sec3 from above.
- Nichols, Louis, FBI assistant director (Crime Records) A, B, C, D, E, F ; File at Internet Archive
- Rosen, Alex, FBI assistant director (Criminal Division) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Sullivan, William, FBI assistant director (Domestic Intelligence Division): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
- Tamm, Quinn, FBI assistant director (Identification Division, Training & Inspection Division, & FBI Laboratory): Tamm extortion victim file; personnel file: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Tolson, Clyde, FBI associate director 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 4a, 4b, 5, 6, 7, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10
- Tracy, Stanley, FBI assistant director (Identification Division) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Turrou, Leon. FBI agent who busted up the Nazi spy ring in 1938. 1 of 1
- J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director 1, 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 4c, 5a, 5b, 5c, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8a, 8b, 9, 10a, 10b, 10c
FBI RIDS Dead List: (ppl as of 2009 the FBI knows are dead)
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FBI Manuals (see also at MU Archive):
- 1941: sec 1, sec 2, sec 3
- 1978: (100) Domestic Security: 1, 2 (145) Obscenity: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- 2008: Domestic Investigations & Operations Guide
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FBI files on the New Era, the 1920s:
- Marcus Garvey FBI file. FOLD3 has digitized Garvey documents that otherwise are on microfilm at the National Archives. (Also WWI Old German files.)
- Jack Johnson (boxer) FBI file: sec1, sec2, sec3
- Osage “Reign of Terror” FBI file
- St. Valentines Day Massacre: FBI file
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FBI files on the World War II era:
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Cold War Era FBI files: