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Books & documents
- Countdown to midnight : twelve great stories about nuclear war (1984) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- My favorite science fiction story (1999) — Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, Greenberg, Martin Harry Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90g01359r000200030029-4: OVERSIGHT AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE DRAW SPEAKERS' FOCUS AT DINNERS (2011) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Notes on the Paranormal — Ben Steigmann Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp13x00001r000100420003-5: OSS - CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING FAR EASTERN AFFAIRS, 1943 (1941) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp13x00001r000100390009-3: OSS - PERSONNEL RELATETD CORRESPONDENCE/MEMORANDA CONCERNING BRITIISH ADMIRALTY DELEGATION/LETTERS OF COMMENDATION, 1945 (1943) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp13x00001r000100310004-6: OSS - TRANSFER OF RECORDS FROM THE FIELD TO WASHINGTON, D.C./ASSESSMENT OF HITLER'S WAR STRATEGY AND POSSIBLE AREAS OF ATTACK/THE PEACE SETTLEMENT AND CHINA'S INTERNATIONAL POLICY/PERSONNEL ACTIONS AND REASSIGNMENT/REPORT ON LIBERIA, 1942 (1945) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- [G-50] Isaac Asimov (1966) Cae la noche (1966) — Isaac Asimov Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp75-00001r000300140018-1: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD --SENATE (1958) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp87b00858r000600950030-3: TERRORIST PROSECUTION ACT (1986) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp13x00001r000100410005-4: OSS - REPORT ON CONDITIONS IN THE FIELD/RETURNEE REPORTS/, 1944 (1944) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room 06966918: DEBATEGATE MEDIA ARTICLES (1983) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room 00417053: ASSORTED NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS:OSWALD, GARRISON, CLAY SHAW TRIAL, ETC. (2025) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp75-00001r000200500003-8: LOW-NUMBER TAGS, D.C.'S DRIVING UPPER CRUST (1962) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Civil War : the second year told by those who lived it (2012) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp67-00318r000100340001-0: "FROM FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE" (1961) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room 00475342: NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS: WHAT WAS LEE OSWALD'S MOTIVE? (1970) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- New Bedford scrapbooks (Vol. 3) (1913) — Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.) Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Garrison Commission (1968) — Ramparts Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp79b00752a000300070001-8: THE ADAM AND EVE STORY (1966) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- 100 people who are screwing up America-- and Al Franken is #37 (2005) — Goldberg, Bernard, 1945- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- 1915 July 30 Atlanta Journal 16 Pages Georgia (1930) — Atlanta Journal Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
- Golden Links in the Chain That Connects Mother, Home and Heaven (1890) — Mrs. J. P. Newman, Angeline Ensign Newman, Various Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp99-01448r000301210005-7: OVERSIGHT AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE DRAW SPEAKERS' FOCUS AT DINNERS (2013) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Lot & Lot's daughter (1996) — Ward Moore Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1962) — Robert P. Mills, Howard Fast, Manly Wade Wellman, John Masefield, Margaret St. Clair, Zenna Henderson, John Collier, Mildred Clingerman, Robert F. Young, Alfred Bester, Graham Greene, J. Francis McComas, Anthony Boucher, John Novotny, Ward Moore Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Isaac Asimov presents the best fantasy of the 19th century (1982) — Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, Edward Everett Hale, Лев Толстой, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank R. Stockton, H. Rider Haggard, H. G. Wells Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The best from Fantasy and science fiction (1954) — Francis Barry Keefe, Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Best from Fantasy and science fiction (1952) — Anthony Boucher Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction (1954) — Anthony Boucher Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Vita Brevis (2004) — Jill Medvedow Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Poems and Poetics (2003) — Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Wilbur Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The history of Detroit and Michigan (1884) — Silas Farmer Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe in Four Volumes - III - The Literati (1857) — Edgar Allan Poe Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- American Film (1975) — American Film Institute Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Conspirators Hierarchy (1992) — John Coleman Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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