The archive · 25 collections
2,190,439 documents. Alphabetized by a cat.
Congressional reports, agency releases, court records and FOIA dumps, reproduced from official releases and linked back to their source.
Search it the way you'd ask a person.
No operators, no Boolean, no guessing the right keyword. Ask a question; it finds the passages and tells you where they live.
The drawers
What's in the cabinets besides fur
Indexed collections, by name and the years they cover. Every one is a public release; Evil ASF is not affiliated with any government agency.
- Warren Commission
- Church Committee
- CIA MKUltra
- COINTELPRO
- Pentagon Papers
- UAP records
- 9/11 Commission
- Waco
- State Dept. email releases
- Special counsel & FISA reports
- COVID origins
- January 6th Committee
- Twitter Files
- + 12 more drawers
Anatomy of a citation
Every claim wears a tag. Like a very organized dog.
Each source in an answer is a little manila tab. It names three things, and tapping it slides the document out with the quoted lines highlighted.
- Collection
- Which release it came from.
- Document
- The file itself: a report, a memo, a transcript.
- Page
- Where to look, so you never have to take our word for it.
The Defense Department's own study of US decision-making in Vietnam ran from 1945 to 1967. It was commissioned in 1967 and classified on completion.
Portions were published in 1971; the full report was declassified in 2011.
Page numbers in this demo are illustrative.
Tap the tab to file it away again.
How claims are marked
Labelled, not adjudicated.
"There is no evidence for that" usually means four different things. Evil ASF tells you which one you're looking at.
- Documented
It is in the record. Quoted, with the file, the page and the release.
- Contested
Credible sources disagree. You get the official account and the challenge to it, with what each rests on.
- Unresolved
The question is open. Nobody has the document that would settle it, and saying so beats picking a side.
- Speculative
No documentary basis found. Still discussed with you; never dressed up as established.
"Not in this index" is a real answer. It is not the same claim as "did not happen".