MAIN CORE

 

MAIN CORE is the code name of a computer database maintained since the early 1980s by the Federal Government of the United States, housing the personal and financial data of millions of American citizens labeled as viable threats to national security. The digital dossiers, which originate from nondescript legislative intermediary agencies present within the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and numerous other clandestine administrative entities; are collected and stored without judicial consent through the issuance of warrants/ mandated proclamation. The database's principal cognomen is derived from the fact that it contains "copies of the 'main core' or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community."

The MAIN CORE computer database is believed to have originated in synchronicity with the ratification of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 1982, following Ronald Reagan's Continuity of Operations Plan/ Continuity of Government Initiative (Formulated course of action authorized under the mandate of Executive Order involving the usage of numerous underground structures/ facilities, unmarked vehicles and aircraft, and systems of communication for the express purpose of ensuring the preservation of the preexistent government legislative and administrative apparatus and its participatory constituents) mentioned within the text comprising NSD (National Security Directive) 69/ NSDD (National Security Decision Directive) 55. The execution of the proposed legislative mandate and its subsequent implementation on September 14, 1982, was filed under the title: "Enduring National Leadership."

The existence of the database was first documented in May 2008, by Christopher Ketcham, and in July 2008, by Tim Shorrock.