Public Information Research, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt public organization, with an income of less than $25,000 a year. Based in San Antonio, Texas, it was founded in 1989 by Daniel Brandt, who is currently the organization's president. Public Information Research also runs the website NameBase.
NameBase is Public Information Research's web-based cross-indexed database of names that focuses on foreign policy and intelligence top...
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Public Information Research, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, tax-exempt public organization, with an income of less than $25,000 a year. Based in San Antonio, Texas, it was founded in 1989 by Daniel Brandt, who is currently the organization's president. Public Information Research also runs the website NameBase.
NameBase is Public Information Research's web-based cross-indexed database of names that focuses on foreign policy and intelligence topics. From the 1960s onwards, Brandt collected clipping and citation pertaining to influential people and intelligence matters. In the 1980s, through his company Micro Associates, he sold subscriptions to this computerized database. The material was described in The Nation as "information on all sorts of spooks, military officials, political operators and other cloak-and-dagger types." He told the The New York Times at the time that "many of these sources are fairly obscure so it's a very effective way to retrieve information on U.S....
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