NameBase offers 67,000 hard-to-find names

NameBase is a searchable database of over 67,000 names compiled from investigative books and periodicals, specializing in intelligence, foreign policy, and political elites with detailed citations available on diskette for $79.

Public Information Research offers NameBase - a database of citations for over 67,000 names of groups and individuals.

NameBase, compiled from over 400 investigative books and thousands of pages from periodicals, is said to specialize in sources that are ignored by expensive on-line search services. Citations for each name include author, title, date, and page number. Almost all titles contain a screen of annotations.

Areas emphasized include the international intelligence community, U.S. foreign policy, political elites from the right and the left, assassination theory, Latin America and big business. Leading letter and phonetic searches can be used to locate difficult or transliterated names.

Some sources which have been added within the last year include: 2,800 names from the 1991 Membership Directory for the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, 395 names from the 1992 Federal Staff Directory; 996 names from the State Department Biographic Register.

NameBase fits on diskette and costs $79. Updates are available for $39. For information, contact Public Information Research, P.O. Box 5199, Arlington VA 22205, (703) 241-5437.