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Records and correspondence

Box-Seat Drivers

From complaint letters addressed to the New York Philharmonic and subsequent responses, stored in the orchestra’s archive. The letters are dated from 1952–1953. Dimitri Mitropoulos was the music director of…

Snowden’s Box

by Jessica Bruder, Dale Maharidge,

The human network behind the biggest leak of all

Queer Theory

From a CIA memorandum entitled “Homosexual Investigations” that was written in 1980 for the purpose of investigating colleagues. The document was published in March by Muckrock.

[Untitled]

by Taylor Callery,

Graveyard Shift

From work-related fatalities reported to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 2014.

Friends Like These

From emails about an antigay protest organized by the Westboro Baptist Church in 2002. The emails were included in the FBI’s file on Fred Phelps, who founded the church in…

The Operative’s Words

From the CIA’s 2011 style guide, recently acquired by the National Security Counselors, a legal nonprofit, following a Freedom of Information Act request.

A Very Perfect Instrument

by Andrew Cockburn,

The ferocity and failure of America’s sanctions apparatus

Mopey Dick

by Harper’s Staff,

Terms of release

by Harper’s Staff,

Negotiated press

by Harper’s Staff,

Records and correspondence

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Box-Seat Drivers

Snowden’s Box

Queer Theory

[Untitled]

Graveyard Shift

Friends Like These

The Operative’s Words

A Very Perfect Instrument

Mopey Dick

Terms of release

Negotiated press

January 2012

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