NameBase

NameBase is a web-based cross-indexed database of names focusing on various foreign policy and intelligence topics founded by Daniel Brandt.

From the 1960s onwards, Brandt collected clippings and citations pertaining to influential people and intelligence matters. In the 1980s, through his company Micro Associates, he sold a database of citations of these clippings, books, government reports, and other publications. He told the New York Times that "many of these sources are fairly obscure so it's a very effective way to retrieve information on U.S. intelligence that no one else indexes."

These prior efforts were the basis of his NameBase website, started in 1995, which is a cross-indexed database of names focusing on various foreign policy and intelligence topics. As of 2003, the deep indexing database contained over 100,000 names with over 260,000 citations. The names are drawn from over 800 books, serials, and other publications.