# Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States

> The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (FCSC) is a quasi-judicial, independent agency inside the
> U.S. Department of Justice that adjudicates claims of U.S. nationals against foreign governments
> under the International Claims Settlement Act (22 U.S.C. 1621 et seq.) and the War Claims Act
> (50 U.S.C. 4101-4147). It publishes no API, no developer program and no machine-readable data
> surface. Its public output is HTML pages and PDF documents on www.justice.gov: decisions ("Final
> Opinions and Orders"), annual reports, and program descriptions.

Generated 2026-09-10 by API Evangelist from apis.yml and the artifacts in this repository.
Source of record: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/foreign-claims-settlement-commission/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
The FCSC serves no llms.txt of its own — https://www.justice.gov/llms.txt and
https://www.justice.gov/fcsc/llms.txt both returned 404 on 2026-09-10.

## APIs

None. The FCSC operates no API, no developer portal and no SDK. Contract discovery on 2026-09-10
probed www.justice.gov and justice.gov for /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /jsonapi, /api,
/.well-known/agent-card.json, /.well-known/agent.json, /.well-known/api-catalog, /apis.json and the
rest of the named well-known set; every path 404'd or 301'd to www. A negative-control path returned
404, so the host is not a catch-all.

The Department of Justice — the FCSC's parent department — does publish APIs (the DOJ News API at
https://www.justice.gov/api/v1, the National FOIA Portal API, the BJS NCVS and NIBRS APIs, the FARA
e-File registrant API and a DCAT-US data catalog). Those are DOJ's contracts, not the FCSC's, and
they are profiled separately at
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/department-of-justice/refs/heads/main/apis.yml.
The DOJ News API's `component` query parameter is ignored by the RSS surface — a request for
`component=fcsc` returns the unfiltered department-wide feed byte-for-byte — so there is no
FCSC-scoped machine-readable news feed either.

## What the FCSC actually publishes

- [FCSC home](https://www.justice.gov/fcsc): the agency's landing page (HTML).
- [About the Commission](https://www.justice.gov/fcsc/about-commission): statutory basis, history,
  and the record of 43 completed programs and 660,000+ adjudicated claims.
- [Current Programs](https://www.justice.gov/fcsc/current-programs): the open Albania Claims Program
  and the Helms-Burton / Claims Against Cuba Special Master role.
- [Completed Programs](https://www.justice.gov/fcsc/completed-programs): the 43 closed country
  programs (Germany, Iran, Cuba, China, Vietnam, Egypt, Panama, Albania and others).
- [Final Opinions and Orders](https://www.justice.gov/fcsc/final-opinions-and-orders-5): decisions,
  published as documents on the page rather than as a queryable dataset.
- [Publications](https://www.justice.gov/fcsc/publications): annual reports, 2008 forward.
- [FCSC and the Freedom of Information Act](https://www.justice.gov/fcsc/fcsc-freedom-information-act):
  the FOIA route to Commission records.
- [Contact the Commission](https://www.justice.gov/fcsc/contact-commission): info.fcsc@usdoj.gov.

## Security and policy

- [DOJ Vulnerability Disclosure Policy](https://www.justice.gov/jmd/vulnerability-disclosure-policy):
  covers all DOJ-managed internet-accessible systems including www.justice.gov, and is linked from
  the FCSC page footer. Reports go to Responsible_Disclosure@usdoj.gov or the DOJ VDP portal.
- [DOJ Privacy Policy](https://www.justice.gov/doj/privacy-policy)
- [DOJ Legal Policies and Disclaimers](https://www.justice.gov/legalpolicies)

## API Evangelist artifacts in this repository

- [Well-known probe](well-known/foreign-claims-settlement-commission-well-known.yml): a recorded
  absence — every named /.well-known/ path 404s on www.justice.gov.
- [Vulnerability disclosure](security/foreign-claims-settlement-commission-vulnerability-disclosure.yml)
- [Domain security](security/foreign-claims-settlement-commission-domain-security.yml): TLS 1.3,
  HSTS, DNSSEC, SPF and a DMARC p=reject on justice.gov; no CAA record.