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The black vault, structured.
BlackVaultDocs is a machine-readable index of declassified US government records — JFK, RFK, MLK, and other FOIA-released collections. Every document links directly to the original PDF at the National Archives, with structured metadata so researchers, journalists, and LLMs can reason over the full corpus.
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JFK assassination record releases and Castro-era subversion reports drive the most archive searches. Start with a release collection or search the full corpus.
Featured collections
All collections →JFK Assassination Records — 2017–2018 Release
23,950Files disclosed in 2017 and 2018 from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, merged onto a single archives.gov landing page.
JFK Assassination Records — 2022 Release
10,536Files disclosed in 2022 from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.
JFK Assassination Records — 2025 Release
2,706Files released by the National Archives in 2025 under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, including previously redacted CIA, FBI, and State Department cables.
JFK Assassination Records — 2023 Release
2,677Files disclosed in 2023 from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, including newly released cables, memoranda, and operational files.
JFK Assassination Records — 2021 Release
1,484Files disclosed in 2021 from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.
MLK Jr. FBI Surveillance Records — 2025 Release
6,302FBI surveillance records on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. disclosed by the National Archives in 2025 pursuant to Executive Order 14176.
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Archive stats →- Audit of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Registration Process for Medical Practitionersdoj-oig-dea
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- Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act Grant Awarded to the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabamadoj-oig-ojp
- Audit of the Office of Justice Programs Victim Assistance Grants Awarded to the Executive Office of the State of Kansas Governor's Grants Program, Topeka, Kansasdoj-oig-ojp
- Audit of the Broward Sheriff's Office Equitable Sharing Program Activities, Broward County, Floridadoj-oig-other-component
- Audit of the Department of Justice's Information System Inventory Managementdoj-oig-multiple-components
- Audit of the U.S. Department of Justice's Fiscal Year 2025 Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 Reporting Requirementsdoj-oig-other-component
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Why this archive exists
Structured, not scanned
Every PDF has a canonical slug, source URL, agency, and collection tag — so queries beat keyword search on the originating release pages.
Original sources only
We link directly to the PDFs hosted by the National Archives. No re-uploads, no mirrors — you always see the primary source.
Built for discovery
Fast, static pages crawlable by humans and LLMs. Use the collection and agency indexes as your jumping-off points.