Identity, mission, scope, and limits
About 2IA
2IA is the International Intelligence Archive, an independent, information-only research publication covering intelligence systems, surveillance, open-source verification, influence operations, major world events, public records, civil liberties, and related historical subjects.
Publication information
What 2IA does
A public research archive for evidence, context, and uncertainty
2IA helps readers inspect institutions, records, public claims, legal findings, historical events, and information systems without claiming governmental, operational, activist, or representative authority.
Published independently by Michael Joseph Kappel. Publisher contact information and the general professional profile are available on the Contact Us page.
Independent publication
2IA is not affiliated with a government, intelligence service, law-enforcement agency, surveillance vendor, political party, activist movement, or platform trust-and-safety team.
Information-only scope
The archive explains systems, evidence, history, law, and public records. It does not recruit, investigate private people, accept operational tasking, or offer a secure disclosure service.
Anonymous is a research collection
2IA studies Anonymous as a contested decentralized banner. It does not represent Anonymous or speak for people who use the label.
Privacy-forward publishing
Core pages use local assets and server-side rendering without third-party analytics, external fonts, browser-side feed collection, or unnecessary cookies.
Institutional boundary
What 2IA is not
2IA is not a government agency, intelligence service, law-enforcement body, activist organization, political campaign, membership organization, secure disclosure platform, or representative of Anonymous.