Unexplained Signal Near Soviet ABM Site Detected by Air Force Intercept Unit
A classified U.S. Air Force intercept site monitoring Sary Shagan, a major Soviet anti-ballistic missile test range, picked up a signal that didn’t match any known transmissions. This wasn’t routine interference. The report flagged the event as an anomaly, citing...
The CIA Tested BOL on Addicts to Cancel an LSD Trip
In early 1957, U.S. government researchers tried to interrupt one of the most powerful altered states ever induced: the LSD experience. Their tool was BOL-2-bromo-LSD-a close chemical cousin to lysergic acid diethylamide but with one key difference: it didn’t cause...
Mysterious Lights & Objects Over Norway Rattle U.S. Observers
A U.S. military report titled "UFOs Observed Over Norway" captures a quiet but unsettling series of incidents involving unidentified objects seen in Norwegian airspace. The sightings, made by American personnel stationed in the region, left enough of an impression to...
How the United States Captured German Atomic Scientists Before the Soviets Could
A declassified letter from 1945, sent by intelligence officer Philip Strong to physicist Samuel Goudsmit, sheds light on one of the most urgent and secretive operations of the final days of World War II: the American race to secure German atomic scientists before the...
How NASA’s Astronaut Health Tech Quietly Launched the Ultrasound Era
Long before ultrasound became a staple of cardiology, a quiet collaboration between NASA and Stanford University helped introduce it-not in a hospital-but through aerospace research. In February 1970, NASA’s Ames Research Center and Stanford’s medical team announced a...
CIA Memo Reveals Alarm Over Unrelenting Cold War UFO Reports
A Cold War-era CIA memo, catalogued as DOC_0000015362, reveals how mounting UFO sightings-once treated as fringe distractions-became a legitimate intelligence concern inside the highest levels of U.S. government. The document, blandly titled "Unidentified Flying...
Project AQUILINE: Inside the CIA’s Secret Drone Program
In the hidden corridors of Cold War intelligence, Project AQUILINE stood apart-a top-secret CIA initiative that aimed to create a stealth reconnaissance drone disguised as a bird. This wasn’t science fiction. It was a real program, tested at Area 51 and managed under...
Police Witness Unknown Object Military Units Placed on Alert After UFO Sighting
A blunt but revealing entry titled "Police Officers Spot UFO; Rapid Reaction Force Alerted" provides one of the clearest examples of a chain-of-command response to a UFO sighting. The short report captures something unusual: trained law enforcement personnel reporting...
Declassified Document Reveals CIA’s Cold War Brainwashing Regime
In the early 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency quietly compiled a now-declassified internal study for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Its subject: the systematic re-education of captured minds-a process popularly known as "brainwashing." But the agency’s report...
Soviet & U.S. Bio-Chemical War Plans Revealed
In a stark 1951 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE-18), the U.S. intelligence community laid out in meticulous detail the possibility that the Soviet Union could use biological and chemical weapons if war broke out with the United States. This wasn’t science fiction....
The CIA’s Behavior Modification Experiments at Edgewood Arsenal
For over two decades, Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland was the epicenter of a classified research program that merged pharmacology, military doctrine, and deep secrecy. A newly surfaced Department of the Army document outlines in detail how chemical and psychological...
Conflicting Accounts and a Crater The Mystery of the Fallen Object in Bolivia
A sparse but telling report titled "Bolivia Reports Conflict on Details of Fallen Object" points to a now-forgotten Cold War-era incident involving a mysterious object that fell from the sky. An object that drew immediate attention and contradictory claims from...
The 1958 Shootdown of a U.S. Lockheed C-130 Hercules Over Soviet Territory
On September 2, 1958, a United States Air Force C-130 transport aircraft vanished over the Turkish-Soviet border. The official story, locked away for decades under layers of classification, reveals a grim and deliberate shootdown deep within Soviet airspace-an...
Secrets in the Numbers: How the CIA Fought to Shield Government Data
A little-known document titled "Confidentiality of Federal Statistical Records Act" reveals how, in the early 1980s, U.S. intelligence agencies, led by the CIA, resisted legislative efforts to make government-held data more accessible. The document outlines the CIA’s...
Inside the Secret Program That Captured Billions of American Phone Logs
In November 2006, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) issued one of the most sweeping and secretive surveillance orders in American history. The ruling-FISC Order BR 06-08-authorized the bulk collection of telephone metadata by the National Security...
Fire in the Tunisian Sky: The 1963 Firefall Mystery
In July 1963, people across Tunisia looked up to see something extraordinary blazing across the night. The event became known as the "Tunisian Firefall"-a sudden, spectacular streak of light that was impossible to ignore. 🌠 A Night to Remember Eyewitnesses from...
CIA Document Outlines Blunt Force as a Weapon of Control
In 1972, a government research team set out to determine whether simple impact-non-lethal, non-penetrating, and precisely targeted-could be used to incapacitate humans quickly and quietly. Not chemically. Not psychologically. Physically. The result was a detailed...
Radar and Pilot Encounters with Unidentified Objects Over Panama Canal
In March 1958, the Panama Canal Zone became the focal point of an unusual sequence of radar and pilot encounters. U.S. Air Force and Army anti-aircraft personnel, using multiple radar installations, tracked unidentified flying objects displaying speeds and maneuvers...
Unidentified Object Observed Over Military Airfield
A succinct yet intriguing intelligence memo, simply titled "Unidentified Object Observed in the Sky," documents a sighting that took place near a military installation-an account brief in length but rich in implication. Though few specifics are provided, the report is...
USSR Scientists Stunned by ‘Unusual’ Natural Phenomenon
A rare fragment from Soviet-era records documents an event that caught the attention of the USSR’s scientific community-a so-called "unusual" natural phenomenon observed and logged within national affairs. The document offers only a glimpse but stands as a testament...
Silence Over Sightings: Air Force Grapples with Panel’s UAP Report
In early 1953, U.S. Air Force officials met behind closed doors to respond to a sensitive issue that refused to disappear from American skies - unidentified flying objects. The declassified memo titled "Meeting With Air Force Personnel Concerning Scientific Advisory...
Developing Electro-Anesthesia Through Animal Testing and Covert Human Trials
In June 1966, a U.S. government review board quietly examined a research proposal to explore electro-anesthesia-the use of electrical current to render subjects unconscious. The plan was detailed, ambitious, and ethically ambiguous. The experiment would begin with...
Inside the Soviet Pursuit of Biological Fields and Mind Influence
Soviet physicist Viktor G. Adamenko outlines a theory for biological electrodynamics and psychoenergetics A declassified CIA translation of a Soviet academic paper reveals an effort to scientifically explain human consciousness, telepathy, and long-range bioenergetic...
Internal Request Reveals the Air Force Tried to Unlock a Hidden CIA UFO Report
Buried in a declassified memo is a quiet trace of something bigger. The document is unassuming-no body text, no summary, no conclusions. Just a heading confirming that the U.S. Air Force once requested access to a classified CIA report on unidentified flying objects....
Russia is Helping to Arm China’s Assault Plan Against Taiwan
A newly released RUSI analysis lays out startling evidence that Russia is playing a pivotal role in China’s strategy to seize Taiwan. According to contracts and technical documents acquired by the Black Moon hacktivist group, Moscow is supplying Beijing with advanced...
Argentina Reported UFO Sightings That Sparked Military Scrutiny
A now-declassified intelligence document titled "Argentina Unidentified Flying Objects" reveals that U.S. agencies were monitoring foreign reports of UFO activity, including confirmed sightings logged in Argentina. Though the report includes only a brief page from a...
U.S. Air Force Memo Documents Unusual UFOB Case in Japan
A declassified memo titled "UNUSUAL UFOB REPORT", catalogued as DOC_0000015374, details a 1954 encounter involving unidentified aerial phenomena near a U.S. military installation in Japan. The brief but formal communication was sent to the Air Technical Intelligence...
Radicalization on the Right: How Extremist Beliefs Take Root in America
A National Institute of Justice research piece exposes how right-wing radicalization has evolved inside the United States. The study, drawn from government analysis and case histories, reveals the pathways by which extremist ideologies spread, solidify, and sometimes...
Soviet Military Medical Network in East Germany Exposed
A declassified Provisional Scientific Intelligence Report from March 1952 offers a rare look into the structure and scope of Soviet military medical operations in postwar East Germany. Compiled by the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence, the report documents over...
How a Letter from the Public Forced the CIA to Respond on UFO Secrecy
A brief but revealing declassified letter from CIA analyst John S. Harman to a civilian named George Popowitch shows how, even in the early 1950s, ordinary citizens were directly challenging the government over its silence on unidentified flying objects-and sometimes...
Air Force Quietly Confirms UFO Sightings Were Evaluated and Recorded
A sparse but telling internal document labeled simply "Evaluation of UFOs" reveals that the U.S. Air Force was routinely collecting and analyzing reports of unidentified aerial phenomena-despite public denials or claims that such sightings lacked credibility. The...
CIA Manual Details Remote Viewing Protocols for Project CENTER LANE
Buried within a classified-era military document, a little-known guide called the Center Lane Security Classification Guide reveals the CIA’s structured approach to a once-secretive psychic intelligence program. "Center Lane" wasn’t science fiction-it was a...
Major Keyhoe Pushed for Answers on UFO Inquiry
A CIA document details an inquiry initiated by Major Donald E. Keyhoe regarding unidentified flying objects. The record captures his persistence in pressing for accountability and transparency in how official channels handled reports of unexplained aerial phenomena....
CIA Allocates $81,000 for Secret Dolphin Training Base in Key West
A declassified 1965 memorandum titled "Transfer of Funds to the Office of Naval Research for Project OXYGAS/A (Delphine)" reveals CIA efforts to construct a dedicated dolphin training facility at the U.S. Naval Base in Key West, Florida. The document details the...
Far-Right Extremism is the Leading Source of Domestic Terrorism in America
An analysis by the National Institute of Justice lays bare what decades of research have quietly tracked. Domestic terrorism is not evenly distributed across the political spectrum. It is overwhelmingly driven by far-right extremist movements-white supremacists,...
Air Force Document Quietly Confirms UFO Sightings Were Evaluated and Recorded
A sparse but telling internal document labeled simply "Evaluation of UFOs" reveals that the U.S. Air Force was routinely collecting and analyzing reports of unidentified aerial phenomena-despite public denials or claims that such sightings lacked credibility. The...
Full List of Senators that Voted to Block Epstein File Release
The Senate voted narrowly this week to block an amendment from Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer that would have forced the release of federal documents connected to Jeffrey Epstein. The proposal was introduced during debate on the National Defense Authorization Act and...
Bright Object Reported on Horizon Near Iranian-Soviet Border
A short but noteworthy intelligence memo titled "Sighting of Unusual Phenomenon on Horizon Near Iranian/USSR Border" recounts a reported visual observation made from within Iran, not far from its northern frontier. While the document lacks detail, its classification...
Charlie Kirk’s Gun Rhetoric Meets an Ironically Timely Tragedy
Charlie Kirk spent his public life defending guns with unyielding certainty. To him, firearm deaths were not a crisis to be solved but the cost of living free. "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the...
Pentagon Denies Release of Records in Black Vault FOIA Case
A newly released letter shows how the Department of Defense has responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from researcher John Greenewald of The Black Vault. The request, filed in March 2024 and tracked under case number 24-F-0968, sought information...
Air Force Meeting Reviews UFO Advisory Panel Report
A document details a meeting between Air Force personnel and officials concerning a scientific advisory panel’s report on unidentified flying objects. The session reflected growing institutional interest in evaluating UFO sightings not as isolated events but as issues...
UFO Encounter Reported by Police Officers Triggers Rapid Response
A routine night in law enforcement turned extraordinary when multiple police officers reported sighting an unidentified flying object. The encounter was significant enough to trigger the alert of a rapid reaction force, underscoring the seriousness with which the...
Civilian UFO Group Forced Air Force to Answer for Unexplained Sightings
A brief but telling document from the U.S. Air Force captures the impact of a civilian-led investigation into aerial phenomena that pressed military authorities for answers they weren’t eager to give. The reference to the National Investigation Committee on Aerial...
Congressional Hearing on UAPs Pushes for Transparency and Answers
In July 2023, a packed House hearing brought the subject of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) firmly into the spotlight, with lawmakers from both parties and three decorated witnesses urging the U.S. government to end decades of secrecy and confusion around...
Declassified Report Reveals the 14-Step Formula of Communist Brainwashing
In one of the most disturbing psychological breakdowns ever studied by U.S. intelligence, Communist brainwashing wasn’t just about torture. It was about systematic erasure of self-an engineered collapse of identity using exhaustion, isolation, manipulation, and forced...
Snapshots of Unknown UFO in U.S. Intelligence Archives
A now-declassified document titled "Reported Photography of Unidentified Flying Objects" pulls back the curtain on visual evidence collected during the Cold War by U.S. intelligence agencies. This isn't the work of fringe enthusiasts. These are reports, some with...
Reports of Aerial Objects Over Sary Ozek Kazakhstan Spark Intelligence Interest
A short U.S. intelligence memorandum titled "Rumored Unidentified Flying Objects in the Sary Ozek Region" captures attention not for its length, but for its content: a quiet acknowledgment that foreign military sources had taken note of unusual aerial activity in a...
How the FBI Dismantled a Russian Military Botnet Hiding in American Homes
In January 2024, the FBI executed a court-authorized operation to neutralize a massive botnet run by Russia’s GRU intelligence agency, embedded in hundreds of everyday routers across homes and small offices in the United States and abroad. The operation, announced in...
How a Military Investigator Forced the Air Force to Defend Its UFO Secrecy
A heavily redacted but telling document reveals how Major Donald E. Keyhoe, a former Marine Corps pilot and one of the earliest public UFO investigators, triggered an internal scramble within the U.S. Air Force over what could be said, what should be hidden, and who...
Inside GRILL FLAME: The CIA’s Visionary Espionage Briefing
A declassified military intelligence briefing reveals the deepening commitment of the U.S. Army to investigate and operationalize remote viewing during the Cold War under the classified program known as GRILL FLAME. This document, originating from the U.S. Army...
Hypnosis and Deception Detection Put to the Test in Declassified Cold War Memo
A declassified CIA document titled "Possible Fallibility of Polygraph Testing of Subjects in Posthypnotic States" explores whether a person under the influence of posthypnotic suggestion could beat a lie detector test. The implications are chilling-particularly when...
How the Soviet Navy Prioritized Antisubmarine Warfare in the Cold War
A declassified CIA assessment titled "Soviet Antisubmarine Warfare: Current Capabilities and Priorities" reveals that by the early 1980s, the Soviet Union had significantly ramped up efforts to counter U.S. and NATO submarine forces. Contrary to assumptions of a...
The CIA’s Gateway Process: How the US Tried to Engineer Out-of-Body States
A once-classified CIA analysis reveals how US intelligence sought to push the boundaries of human consciousness using the "Gateway Process"-a set of audio techniques and mental exercises designed to trigger altered states, heightened focus, and even so-called...
How the Soviet Union Built a Global Nuclear Submarine Force to Challenge the U.S.
A newly declassified CIA briefing titled "New Book on Nuclear Submarines" provides a detailed, candid evaluation of Soviet nuclear submarine development through the Cold War, offering rare insight into how U.S. intelligence assessed the ambitions, weaknesses, and...
How Russia’s Sandworm Group Became the World’s Most Dangerous Cyber Saboteur
A new intelligence report by cybersecurity firm Mandiant sheds light on APT44, also known as Sandworm-a highly destructive, Russian military cyber unit tied to the GRU. The 48-page document traces the group’s evolution from stealthy digital intrusions to full-blown...
Stuxnet Leak Probe Puts Retired US General in the Crosshairs
A once-secret U.S. intelligence cable reveals how a leak about one of the world’s most consequential cyberattacks turned into a major criminal investigation-one that reached the highest ranks of the American military. In 2013, media reports broke the story that...
How Swedish Skywatchers Triggered International UFO Surveillance
A short intelligence memo titled "UFOs Sighted, Photographed in Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen" captures a moment in 1954 when military and scientific observers in Sweden witnessed multiple unidentified flying objects, triggering not only public interest-but...
How the CIA’s LSD Experiments Led to the Mysterious Death of a U.S. Scientist
A chilling internal report from the CIA Inspector General’s office reveals disturbing details behind the 1953 death of Dr. Frank Olson, a U.S. Army scientist who fell from a New York hotel window after being unknowingly dosed with LSD by the CIA. This classified...
Inside the CIA’s "Family Jewels": A Cold War Record of Illicit Intelligence Operations
A once-secret compendium titled "FAMILY JEWELS" offers a rare and unfiltered look at the CIA’s darkest chapters-an internal archive documenting decades of actions the agency feared would spark scandal or criminal prosecution if ever exposed. This wasn’t a rogue...
CIA’s Prototype for Psychic Targeting: A Glimpse into Remote Viewing Systems
A CIA document titled "A Prototype Analysis System for Special Remote Viewing Tasks" reveals an early attempt to formalize how psychic intelligence might be processed, ranked, and interpreted within national security operations. Although light on technical detail, the...
How the Soviet Navy Shifted to Nuclear Power & Missiles During the Cold War
A declassified U.S. intelligence document titled "Conversion of Soviet Naval Vessels to Nuclear Propulsion and Rocket Weapons" reveals how, by the late 1950s, the Soviet Union had begun an aggressive transformation of its navy into a nuclear-powered and...
A Flash in the Sky the CIA Wouldn’t Place on a Map
The location was removed. The witnesses were not named. But the object-fast, low-flying, and seen by multiple observers-was real enough for the CIA to file a report. In this one-page intelligence brief, titled simply "Observation of Flying Object Near [Deleted]," the...
Air Force Pilots Tracked an Unexplained Craft in the Early Cold War
Long before the term "UAP" was in vogue, U.S. military pilots were encountering-and failing to identify-objects in the sky that didn’t belong to any known arsenal. This document, a quiet yet sobering Air Force intelligence summary titled "Sightings of Unidentified...
Viewer 025: Describing the Unknown Under CIA’s Psychic Spy Program
A short, declassified document-filed under 9009, Viewer 025-offers another piece of the puzzle in the CIA’s long-running exploration of remote viewing. The paper provides no summary, context, or feedback. But its meaning lies in what it represents: an intelligence...
Sighting of an Unconventional Aircraft Filed by the CIA
The skies above U.S. airspace during the Cold War were constantly monitored-for bombers, reconnaissance flights, and missiles. But occasionally, trained personnel saw something that didn’t belong to any known category. There’s no date. No follow-up. Just the...
Hunting for the Mind-Breaking Plants of Project ARTICHOKE
In late 1952, a CIA scientist was quietly preparing for a multi-week research mission into the jungles and highlands of Mexico. His goal wasn’t academic. It was operational. He was tasked with locating, testing, and extracting specific narcotic and toxic plants...
Broadcast Station in Cyprus Reported Middle East Instability to CIA in 1948
A declassified document dated September 1, 1948, from the Near East Broadcasting Station in Cyprus provides a rare snapshot of early CIA monitoring efforts in the Middle East-focused on radio transmissions, propaganda narratives, and regional public sentiment. The...
Inside the Expansion of Project BLUEBIRD
By the early 1950s, Project BLUEBIRD had evolved beyond theory. The CIA was actively building interrogation teams, exploring chemical and hypnotic control, and embedding psychological research inside foreign operations. This document proposed a sweeping expansion:...
Names, Allegations & the Battle Over Truth in the Epstein-Maxwell Case
A trove of unsealed court records from the Virginia Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell civil case lays bare the intense legal struggle over the recruitment and abuse of minors by Jeffrey Epstein. It includes explosive testimony, pointed refusals to answer and repeated...
Air Force Analyzes UFO Photographs Across the Nation
In a quietly compiled Air Force summary titled "Reported Photography of Unidentified Flying Objects," government analysts reviewed dozens of civilian and military UFO photo submissions from across the United States-seeking hard evidence for the unexplained aerial...
CIA Agency Analysts Dismiss Public UFO Concerns
A newly declassified memo shows CIA analysts in the mid-20th century responding internally to a wave of public letters about unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Rather than expressing alarm, the tone is detached-almost dismissive-suggesting the agency had little...
The CIA and U.S. Congress Battled Over Oswald’s Mexico Files
In the wake of President Kennedy’s assassination, tensions quickly escalated between the CIA and Congressional investigators. A declassified 1977 CIA memo, written by Russell B. Holmes, reveals the depth of mistrust and institutional friction as the agency was accused...
CIA Analysts Review Psychic Intelligence Notes
A newly surfaced document reveals internal CIA commentary on what’s referred to as the "Black Notebook Materials"-a set of unconventional intelligence notes tied to the government’s experiments with psychic phenomena. This wasn’t speculative fiction. These materials...
Congress Warned about Friction Between CIA & Assassination Investigators
In the aftermath of public outcry following major assassinations, tensions grew between government agencies and those trying to uncover the truth. A once-confidential memo from 1977, now declassified, reveals the CIA’s mounting frustration with the House Select...
Radio Havana Reacts: Global Revolutionary Voices After MLK’s Assassination
In the days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a flurry of broadcasts and newspaper reports from Cuba painted the murder not just as a tragedy-but as a catalyst. A secret telepouch report from April 1968 captured how Cuban state-run media...
Antulio Ortiz Ramirez: The Hijacker Who Vanished into Cuba
On May 1, 1961, Antulio Ortiz Ramirez forced a National Airlines plane from Florida to detour to Cuba. Though the passengers and aircraft returned safely, Ramirez remained behind-sparking a criminal case that would take over a decade to close. A newly reviewed...
CIA Promised to Preserve JFK & MLK Records Despite Requests to Destroy
In late 1976, the CIA assured Congress it would not destroy any records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-despite a scheduled return to routine document destruction. This commitment is outlined in a memo from CIA...
Congressional Investigator Pushes CIA on JFK and MLK Files
On November 24, 1976, Richard A. Sprague, Chief Counsel for the U.S. House Committee on Assassinations, paid a pivotal visit to CIA Headquarters. The committee was tasked with reinvestigating the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King...
FBI Pressure Campaign Against King Intensifies Ahead of Nobel Prize
As the world prepared to award Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, the FBI intensified its covert operations to discredit him. A newly examined Bureau document from November 1964 reveals an aggressive campaign aimed at applying "pressure from...
The CIA Spied on MLK From a Miami Hotel Room
A classified CIA memo from July 1966, now declassified, reveals that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was spied on during a stay in Miami. The operation included physical surveillance, room monitoring, and even trash retrieval from King’s suite. The surveillance...
Committee Claimed JFK and MLK Killings Were Connected
By the early 1970s, growing public suspicion surrounding high-profile assassinations reached a boiling point-prompting action from figures on Capitol Hill and beyond. One of the most vocal was Bernard Fensterwald Jr., a former Senate counsel and intelligence...
CIA Fights Back After Accusations Over JFK Assassination Failures
A sharp rebuke from within the U.S. intelligence community emerged in the wake of one of the most controversial investigations in American history. This file was located within the recently released MLK files, with no explanation as to why, or why the filename...
The Government Watched as the Poor Prepared to Occupy Washington
In the weeks following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the U.S. government ramped up its internal surveillance and threat assessments-not against violent agitators, but against the civil rights movement’s most ambitious protest yet. The declassified...
Martin Luther King’s Campaign Was a Direct Confrontation With American Poverty
In the months before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing for the most ambitious civil disobedience campaign of his life-a mass occupation of Washington, D.C. that would bring thousands of poor Americans to the nation’s doorstep to demand...
FBI Surveillance Targeted Black Student Organizers at Merrimack College
A newly uncovered page from the FBI’s classified files on civil rights surveillance reveals how the Bureau monitored and documented Black student activity at Merrimack College in Massachusetts-part of a broader COINTELPRO-style campaign aimed at suppressing civil...
The CIA Built a Psychological Map for Control of Human Behavior
During the Cold War, the CIA quietly funded a research program that aimed to do far more than study populations-it wanted to shape them. The so-called "narrative" project outlined in this document proposed nothing less than a full-spectrum psychological map of human...
OSS Eyes the East: Covert Concerns in 1943
A rare cache of declassified wartime correspondence from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) reveals how U.S. intelligence officials tracked shifting alliances, insurgent activity, and enemy influence across East Asia in 1943. The document doesn’t contain a single...
Remote Viewer 025 Describes Structure Under Solo Conditions
A declassified CIA document labeled "9007-I, SESSION 01, SOLO, VIEWER #025" captures a solo remote viewing attempt, part of the U.S. government's controversial psychic intelligence initiative. This session-stripped of feedback, cues, or interviewer prompts-provides a...
Gulf of Tonkin Incident Was Based on Bad Intelligence and They Knew It
The event that brought the United States fully into the Vietnam War wasn’t a direct attack. It was a cascade of misinterpreted sonar, misread radar signals, and communications breakdowns-followed by a decision to strike anyway. This NSA study, titled "Skunks, Bogies,...
CIA Memo Hints at Interest in Medical Insight for Intelligence Briefings
A declassified CIA document from early 1954, catalogued as DELETE[12888371], outlines an internal request for the agency to participate in medical-oriented intelligence briefings. While not focused exclusively on UFOs or foreign threats, the document offers insight...
CIA Considered Using Pigeons for Deep Soviet Recon Missions
A 1975 CIA memo titled "AVIANS Project Evaluation" offers a clear snapshot of a bold Cold War concept: training birds to fly covert aerial photography missions inside the USSR. The memo-written after a demonstration by CIA contractors and evaluated by the Directorate...
Inside the CIA’s Effort to Improve Psychic Performance
A CIA document titled "An Effort to Improve Remote Viewing Quality" provides a rare look at the agency’s internal struggles to refine the reliability of its psychic intelligence program. Remote viewing-an attempt to gather information about distant or unseen targets...
What the CIA Missed Before 9/11 & Why No One Was Held Accountable
In 2004, the CIA’s own Office of Inspector General quietly released a 480-page report examining what went wrong in the months-and years-leading up to the September 11 attacks. The verdict was damning. The CIA had intelligence on Al-Qa'ida operatives, including several...
‘Flying Saucers’ UAP/UFO Spotted Over Belgian Congo Uranium Mines
A brief but striking intelligence document confirms that flying saucers were sighted over uranium mines in the Belgian Congo. This location was one of the most strategically critical regions of the mid-20th century. The memo, simply titled "FLYING SAUCERS OVER BELGIAN...
The Race to Impact: How the Soviets Hit the Moon First With Lunik II
On 12 September 1959, the Soviet Union launched a space probe toward the Moon and made history. The spacecraft, called Lunik II, became the first manmade object to reach the lunar surface. But the success wasn't without failure, secrecy, and an intense Cold War...
What Happened After the NSA’s Surveillance & Metadata Violations
An August 2009 report from the U.S. Government-released only after intense public and judicial pressure-sheds light on how the NSA attempted to rebuild credibility after it was caught violating court-mandated rules under the Patriot Act's Section 215. This report,...
What the CIA Was Saying About Flying Saucers in 1952
A declassified CIA memo dated 11 August 1952 reveals that reports of "flying saucers" were serious enough to be discussed in a formal Branch Chiefs Meeting. Far from dismissing the phenomena, agency officials expressed concern over both the volume of sightings and...
CIA Document Logs UFO Sightings from Sweden, France & North Africa
A CIA memo titled "SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS," catalogued as DOC_0000015479, compiles several short reports of UFO activity spanning Sweden, France, and North Africa. Though sparse in detail, the document shows how seriously the agency was taking even...
Jewish Communities in Italy Were Divided Over Stalin’s Legacy
A quietly archived intelligence summary-now declassified-offers a rare window into how Jewish communities in Italy reacted to key global events during the Cold War. The document, dated in the early 1950s, outlines how international developments deeply affected...
The Hidden Spy Network That Leaked America’s Atomic Arsenal
A stark list buried in a declassified government record details a series of convictions for espionage-specifically targeting the U.S. atomic energy program. Each name marks a breach of trust and a moment when national security collided with personal motive, ideology,...