NameBase is a web-based cross-indexed database of names that focuses on individuals involved in the international intelligence community, U.S. foreign policy, crime, and business.
[1] Founder Daniel Brandt began collecting clippings and citations pertaining to influential people and intelligence agents in the 1960s.
[3] In the 1980s, through his company Micro Associates, he sold subscriptions to this computerized database under its original name, Public Information Research Inc. (PIR).
These linkages, diagrams, and hyperlinked footnoted information allow users to uncover potential relationships or connections between individuals and groups.
[6] NameBase was described by information scientist Paul B. Kantor as being the "only web-based tool readily available for visualizing social networks of terrorism researchers.