Department of Defense
The Department of Defense and the military services have released a wide range of declassified operational, intelligence, and historical records. DeclassDB indexes them for one-stop searching.
Search below for military operations, defense intelligence, and Pentagon history.
What you’ll find
- Military operations and after-action records
- Defense intelligence assessments
- Historical service records and policy files
Each DoD component runs its own FOIA office — the builder below routes your request to the right one.
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FOIA search is fragmented and keyword-only. DeclassDB unifies seven federal archives — CIA CREST, FBI Vault, NSA, State, NARA, DoD, NSArchive — and adds AI semantic search, so you can find what you mean, not just what you typed.
AI semantic search
Find by meaning across 309,708 CREST documents (1.05M pages, full-text). The embedding model runs in your browser — no cloud round-trip. Pro & Researcher.
One query, every agency
Unified, blended, de-duplicated across seven federal sources. CIA / FBI / State always free; NSA / NARA / DoD / NSArchive unlocked on Pro.
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