FBI’s ‘Vault’ a repository of records on Capone to Einstein
By Joe Dwinnell, Boston Herald, July 19, 2021
“The Vault,” the FBI’s public records repository, is a who’s who of the famous to the infamous the agency has kept records on.
Once a person dies, their FBI files are accessible under the federal Freedom of Information Act — minus any agency redactions. The Herald did just that after Southie mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was killed in October 2018 inside a West Virginia prison.
The first batch of records was just posted to The Vault with the next installments expected soon. The FBI, however, keeps populating the page with new entries weekly from other FOIA requests.
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