GAO/OSI-97-2 Investigators Guide to Sources of Information

Office of Special Investigations
April 1997

This 1997 Investigators' Guide to Sources of Information is published as a service to the investigative community by GAO's Office of Special Investigations. It is intended to be a useful investigative tool for identifying sources of information about people, property, business, and finance. To make the guide useful in an increasingly electronic environment, we have added Internet addresses wherever possible and a chapter on how to use the Internet to gather information valuable to the investigative process.

This Guide comes in two versions: a Portable Document Format (pdf) version and a HTML/Web version. The pdf version is a copy of the paper version of this Guide. The HTML/Web version expands upon the pdf version by actually linking to URLs listed in the text.

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The information provided in this guide is current as of the date of publication. As with the two previous editions of the guide, we request your assistance in updating and improving the guide periodically. Please submit any updates or suggestions on how the guide can better meet users' needs directly to us by e-mail at soiguide.osi@gao.gov or by fax at (202) 371-2442. You may also write to us at the Office of Special Investigations, U.S. General Accounting Office, 441 G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20548.

This document was last updated April 20, 1997