FEDERAL TAPES

Federal Tapes examines primary law-enforcement records that are in the public domain: FBI interview recordings, surveillance tapes and declassified case files created by agencies of the United States government.

Every episode is built around one authentic recording. The tape carries the episode; the commentary only explains what is happening in it. Every quotation on screen is verbatim, with its position in the tape shown, so anyone can check it against the source. Nothing is re-enacted, re-voiced or reconstructed.

All recordings published here are works of the United States government and are in the public domain.