A dossier is a collection of papers or other sources, containing detailed
information
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about a particular person or subject.
Dossier can also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Dossier 51
''Dossier 51'' (french: Le Dossier 51) is a 1978 French crime drama film directed by Michel Deville and based on a novel by Gilles Perrault. Deville and Perrault won a César Award for Best Writing for their adaptation. The film was screened in the ...
'', a 1978 film based on a book of the same name
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Dossier Journal
''Dossier Journal'' is an independently published and owned bi-annual arts and culture journal. Content draws upon a wide range of subjects, including fashion features, art and photography portfolios, fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews ...
'', an independently published and owned bi-annual arts and culture journal
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The Miernik Dossier
The Miernik Dossier, published by the Saturday Review Press in 1973, was the first of seven novels by the American novelist Charles McCarry featuring an American intelligence agent named Paul Christopher. Set in 1959 in Europe and Africa during ...
'', first of seven novels by American novelist Charles McCarry
Specific dossiers
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Farewell Dossier
The Farewell Dossier was the collection of documents that Colonel Vladimir Vetrov, a KGB defector "en place" (code-named "Farewell"), gathered and gave to the Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) in 1981–82, during the Cold War.
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, documents that a KGB defector gave to the French DST in 1981–82
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Iraq Dossier
''Iraq – Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation'' (more commonly known as the ''Iraq Dossier'', the ''February Dossier'' From pages 35–42 o"The Decision to go to War in Iraq: Ninth Report of Session 2002-03" (PDF). or th ...
, a 2003 briefing document for the British Labour Party government concerning Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
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September Dossier
''Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government'', also known as the ''September Dossier'', was a document published by the British government on 24 September 2002 on the same day of a recall of Parliament to dis ...
'', a document published by the British government on 24 September 2002 concerning weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq
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Steele dossier
The Steele dossier, also known as the Trump–Russia dossier, is a controversial political opposition research report written from June to December 2016, containing allegations of misconduct, conspiracy, and cooperation between Donald Trump ...
, a dossier containing allegations of a conspiracy between Trump's 2016 campaign and the Russian government, sometimes known as the "Trump–Russia dossier"
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Westminster paedophile dossier
A dossier on paedophiles allegedly associated with the British government was assembled by the British Member of Parliament Geoffrey Dickens, who handed it to the then-Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, in 1984. The whereabouts of the dossier is unknow ...
, a dossier on paedophiles allegedly associated with the British government
Other uses
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Dossier criminal
Dossier Criminal (DC) is a term used extensively in the Indian Police
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, a term used by Indian police forces to classify criminals
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Global Dossier
The Global Dossier is an online public service launched in June 2014 by the five "IP5" offices, i.e. the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), China's National Intellectual Prop ...
, an online public service launched in June 2014 by the five Intellectual Property offices
See also
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Black Dossier (disambiguation) Black Dossier can refer to:
* ''Black Dossier'' (film), a 1955 French film
* '' The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier'', a graphic novel released November 14, 2007
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