Little green men, Al Capone, Marilyn Monroe is found ... a little of everything on the new website of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). The famous American domestic intelligence service has put online nearly 2,000 documents declassified in an unprecedented promotional effort. A goldmine for lovers of conspiracy theories, but especially a documentary on the impressive work of the FBI.
"This effort reflects our commitment to building a relationship with the public based on trust and transparency," wrote in a statement on the site, David Hardy, head of the division of data to the FBI.The selection of documents is not trivial: most well known personalities on the public - like Marilyn Monroe - or events that marked the United States such as September 11, 2001 or the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999.
X-Files
Under "unexplained phenomena" and has rekindled the flame of UFO hunters of all hair on the web. It actually contains hundreds of pages on the efforts of the FBI in 1950 and 1960 to document the existence - or absence - of extra-terrestrials. One of these documents, written in March 1950 by an officer appointed Guy Hottel, recounts the testimony of an Air Force pilot who saw unidentified three aircraft crashed in the desert of New Mexico.Inside was the body of creatures in human form 90 cm tall.
Roswell, Roswell you said? A document worthy of an episode of The X-Files, the popular fantasy series of the 1990s, but it must put in the context of the time. The testimony, in one way or another, were falling. Moreover, the FBI has said that the document Guy Hottel did not changed its position concerning the non-existence of the Third Kind. Not sure if this is sufficient to ufologists into madness.
Promotion
If these "unexplained phenomena" mainly titillate the curiosity of fans of science fiction, there's something for everyone in this vast digital archive.Mafia History buffs can visit and the thousands of pages about Al Capone, one of the most famous gangsters of the 1940s. Some film historians will also find confirmation on the site that the FBI has long suspected Groucho Marx (the Marx Brothers) to finance the U.S. Communist Party.
But it's not just in old pots that the best revelations. The communication operation of the FBI also provides more recent events like September 11, 2001. The intelligence service has launched its dossier on the organization of the cell which prepared attacks against the World Trade Center.Particular, we learn how these terrorists have gone unnoticed on American soil and the care that Al Qaeda has focused on preparations for the attack.
Documents concerning the military detention center at Guantanamo perfectly illustrate the promotional effort of the FBI. It is reported in this file of 244 pages of "positive" of inmates who acknowledge having had links with terrorist circles.
