Declassified files, made readable

Free, with no sign-up. Every page of every document is served as an image you can open at full size, and every document has a PDF download. The government publishes these records at no charge too, and we link its copy on every document page — ours is here because it is easier to navigate, not because theirs is hard to get.

From the issuing body's own host wherever one exists: the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the National Archives, the Government Publishing Office's GovInfo, the Ford Presidential Library. Each document page names the record number, the collection and the release, and says what condition the scan is in, including the defects that are in the government's copy.

Not yet, apart from Archive 001. The library is at Level 1 — page images and metadata only, with no text layer of ours behind the scans. The Gateway Process has the full treatment: a word-for-word transcription facing every leaf, in its own reader. Transcription of the rest is the work in front of us.

Where a government file reproduces third-party material we leave the whole page out rather than crop it, because cropping removes the caption that lets you check the claim. Excluded pages are named, marked in place in the sequence, and absent from our download. All of them are in the government's copy, which is linked on the page.

The search box matches titles, agencies, years, programmes and the summary of every document and volume, and it matches the transcribed text of the Gateway Process. Documents held at Level 1 have no text layer, so their pages are found by their record rather than by a phrase inside them. Every page has its own anchor, so you can link straight to it.