CIA Reading Room
Declassified CIA records for reconstructing what U.S. analysts knew, believed or recorded. The book draws on families such as the Pollard-case press material.
ARCHIVE & SOURCE GUIDE
Sources we can point to.
Every entry in the encyclopedia rests on public material. The book closes with a practical guide to sixteen families of sources — archives, court records, journalism, memoirs and official documents — and how to weigh them.
THE SOURCE GUIDE · 16 FAMILIES
Sixteen ways to check a claim.
Each family is described here at a glance. The complete edition expands every one — with record identifiers, caveats and worked examples — in the Source Guide chapter of the 1,250+ page master illustrated edition.
Foreign Relations of the United States
A curated documentary series of U.S. foreign-policy records, especially valuable for secret diplomacy and interagency debates.
Israel State Archives
Cabinet decision-making, diplomacy, migration history and selected declassified collections, including Munich-aftermath files and Entebbe documentation.
IDF and Defense Establishment
Military archives, Agranat Commission material and war records from Israel's defense establishment, used for warning and wartime questions.
FBI historical and case records
U.S.-based espionage cases, investigations and criminal records, including material from the Pollard investigation.
United Nations records
Security Council resolutions, meeting records and state letters — authoritative evidence of diplomatic positions, such as Resolution 611 on the 1988 raid.
IAEA safeguards reports
The baseline for nuclear-verification claims: declared materials, inspector access and unresolved questions on Iran and the Syrian site.
UK Parliament and official statements
Hansard records of ministerial statements and debate, used for high-profile cases such as the 2010 Dubai affair.
Norwegian government inquiries
NOU 2000:6 reconstructs the Lillehammer affair and separates established facts from persistent myths about the case.
Official Mossad publications
The official site's history and about pages for directors, mission statements and institutional self-presentation — treated as a primary position, not neutral analysis.
Court and commission records
Judgments, indictments and inquiry reports establish what formal procedures found, within the limits of each jurisdiction.
Government press offices
Appointment notices and official biographies are the safest source for dates, offices and public careers, such as the 2026 transition.
Reputable journalism
Named-source reporting is indispensable for recent events that have not yet entered archives.
Memoirs and insider books
Perspective, terminology and leads — treated as testimony that requires corroboration rather than automatic fact.
Image and document rights
Every image in the book carries a file-level creator, source and license record, and every visual claim is attributed.
Claims ledger and revision control
For contested claims, the book preserves the previous evidence label, the new source and what the document actually changed.
See how these sources produce the summaries and evidence labels behind each record.
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