U.S. Scientists Studied Electric Fish to Build Underwater Pattern Recognition Systems
In the 1970s, while the public focused on space exploration, U.S. defense researchers were experimenting with something far stranger: electric fish. The goal wasn’t biology. It was signal processing, neural control, and underwater intelligence systems modeled on...
The Navy’s Inertial Mass Reduction Device
In a document obtained via FOIA, the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) outlines a theoretical propulsion concept known as the Inertial Mass Reduction Device (IMRD). This device, attributed to Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, proposes a method to reduce an...
The CIA Built a Secret Needleless Injector Then Abandoned it for Being Too Loud
It was supposed to be the perfect spy tool: a silent device capable of delivering drugs through clothing with no trace and no needle. Instead, it ended up in a folder stamped with failure-and a warning about what science can’t solve with gadgets alone. A 1950s-era...
Operation JESUITS: Soviet Spycraft, Catholic Resistance, and the Cold War in Lithuania
A gripping Cold War-era espionage operation, once buried in KGB archives, has now come to light. “Operation JESUITS,” chronicled in a newly published Cold War International History Project working paper, reveals how the Soviet state security apparatus...
Declassified Reports Reveal Nationwide Military Coordination on UAPs
A newly declassified Army intelligence file reveals an expansive network of U.S. Army counterintelligence agents conducting operations and field briefings about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) across the continental U.S. and abroad. The FOIA-released report...
