REDACTED: Declassified Files

REDACTED is a clean, quiet reader for the real declassified files of the United States government. No noise, no conspiracy spin, no walls of jargon. Just the documents, presented well, with a plain-language summary and the official source link for every one.

Most declassified archives are a maze of scanned PDFs and cryptic titles. REDACTED does the work for you: we find the documents that matter, transcribe them, and write a short, neutral briefing that tells you what each one is, what it says, and why it sits in the record. Then we link you straight to the government's own copy so you can verify every word yourself.

WHAT YOU CAN READ

More than sixty collections, and growing. A sample of what is inside:

THE PROGRAMS
STARGATE, the CIA's remote-viewing experiments, including the sessions on Mars. UFOs and UAP, from the Robertson Panel forward. MKUltra, the surviving mind-control records. The Family Jewels, the Agency's own catalog of its Cold War misdeeds.

COUPS AND COVERT ACTION
Iran 1953 and Operation Ajax. Guatemala 1954. The Bay of Pigs. The Congo and the Lumumba plot. Chile 1973. Indonesia 1965. Angola.

SPIES AND DEFECTORS
The Cambridge spies. Oleg Penkovsky and Yuri Nosenko. 1985, the Year of the Spy. The Rosenberg atomic-spy case.

CRISES AND CONFRONTATIONS
The Cuban Missile Crisis, the daily briefs read in order. The Hungarian Revolution. The Prague Spring. The Yom Kippur and Six-Day Wars. The U-2 incident. KAL 007.

RECONNAISSANCE
A-12 OXCART, the Mach 3 spy plane. CORONA, America's first spy satellites. Project AZORIAN, the mission to raise a sunken Soviet submarine.

READING THE SOVIETS
Team B. The Space Race. Chernobyl. The Soviet economy. The fall of the Soviet Union.

THE WARS
Vietnam. The Soviet war in Afghanistan. The Iran-Iraq War. The Gulf War.

THE MODERN ERA
Iraq and the case for war. Tracking al-Qa'ida. The detention and interrogation program.

New collections are added regularly.

HOW IT READS
Every document opens to the actual page scans, so you are always reading the primary source, never a paraphrase. A short context note sets the scene. Tap to reveal a plain-language summary when you want the gist. Save what you want to come back to, build reading lists, and download documents to read offline. The whole archive is browsable for free, and it works with no account at all.

CLEARANCE
Read documents and browse the whole archive for free, forever. A daily selected summary is always free, plus a set of free summary unlocks to try. For unlimited summaries and offline downloads across the entire archive, subscribe to Clearance. You can cancel anytime in Google Play.

OUR PROMISE
We do not editorialize about whether a document's claims are true. A remote-viewing transcript is a record of a session, not a finding about the world, and we say so. Every surface shows the official source link. This is a reader for people who want the real thing, presented with respect for both the material and the reader.

Read the record. Draw your own conclusions.

NOT AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT APP
REDACTED is an independent archive. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representing the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Archives, the United States government, or any government entity. Every document is a public record released by the U.S. government, sourced from the CIA Freedom of Information Act reading room (cia.gov/readingroom) and the U.S. National Archives (archives.gov), and each links to its official government source.