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...
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....
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...
