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...
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...
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...
