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Entries 11–20, oldest first.
№ 0011
Seventy-three pages listing the histories the CIA has written about itself, each with its author, date, classification and volume count. The list runs from a ten-volume account of the agency up to 1950, through Sherman Kent's two papers on showing the Cuban missile photographs to allied governments, to a three-volume official history of the Bay of Pigs finished in 1979 and marked Top Secret. What was released is the catalog, not the histories.
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№ 0012
A full-page advertisement for Undark, a radium and zinc sulfide paint, from The American Magazine for August 1921. It lists what manufacturers were putting it on: watch dials, electric push buttons, house numbers, flashlights, compasses, gasoline gauges, and the buckles of bedroom slippers. A note to manufacturers at the foot of the page explains that the powder is mixed with adhesive and painted on with a brush, and gives the company's factory address as Orange, New Jersey.
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№ 0013
MGM built the Bounty for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty, and it spent the next fifty years as a tourist attraction and sail-training vessel. Sixteen pages on how it came to sail from New London into the forecast path of Hurricane Sandy on 25 October 2012 and sink four days later off Cape Hatteras, with one crew member dead and the captain never found. The NTSB found rotted hull planking that had been painted over rather than replaced, and seams caulked with polyurethane, glazing and bathroom silicone sealants, none of them rated for immersion. Crew members testified that the captain was superstitious about sailing on a Friday, which the board takes as the reason he left on Thursday evening.
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№ 0014
INTERPOL Washington told a requester some years ago that it held no document summarizing its own history. A 2026 FOIA request produced 78 pages instead: a chronology of US relations with INTERPOL, an unfinished account of the 2003 memorandum with Homeland Security, and a finding aid for the papers of a former US representative.
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№ 0015
A 49-page lecture deck by Dr. Sven G. Bilen teaching TRIZ, a Soviet method of inventive problem solving, to NASA engineers. It reached the public in 2026 through a FOIA request for the slides behind eleven NESC Academy videos, which the site displayed in a viewer nobody outside the agency could read.
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№ 0016
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the Senate, interviewed six Senate switchboard operators and telecommunications staff on 4 August and 1 November 2006. They talk about cord boards, night shifts, the year the overnight switchboard was handed to the Capitol Police, and what the board does when a particular senator takes the floor.
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№ 0017
This manual governs the use of the Bell System's new bell symbol, company logotypes and stripes, and replaces an earlier interim edition. Its thirty-six pages set out acceptable and unacceptable color usage, letterspacing modifications, animated symbols, staging, and use alongside other trademarks and brand names.
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№ 0018
IBM ran this full-page advertisement in the December 1951 issue of Fortune; the Commons record credits it to the agency Cecile & Presbrey. A painted engineer holds a slide rule while the same man repeats to the edges of the page behind him, each copy holding a slide rule at the same angle, and the machine itself sits small in the lower corner with its cabinet doors open.
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№ 0019
412 pages of internal government correspondence regarding the proposed name change from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, January 20–February 10, 2025. Includes emails to and from the Board on Geographic Names, other agencies, and the White House. Fourth interim FOIA response.
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№ 0020
Agendas from seven meetings of the President's Daily Brief Policy Advisory Committee, 2014–2017, with portions redacted under national security exemptions. 21 pages.
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