CIA Program.
Documented CIA programs and operations, and what the declassified record establishes about each. 26 case files in the archive.
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MK-Ultra: The CIA's Twenty-Year Mind-Control Program
What the surviving documents prove, what was destroyed before disclosure, and what's still classified about the agency's experiments on civilians, soldiers, and prisoners from 1953 to 1973.
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Operation Northwoods (1962)
The Joint Chiefs' formal proposal for false-flag attacks on US targets to manufacture justification for a Cuba invasion. Signed by Lemnitzer, rejected by Kennedy, declassified forty-seven years later.
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Project ARTICHOKE: The CIA Interrogation Program That Became MK-Ultra
A 1950-1953 CIA program of chemical, hypnotic, and physical interrogation research, run out of the Office of Security under Morse Allen and absorbed into MKULTRA in April 1953.
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Operation Mockingbird
The documented record of Cold War-era CIA relationships with American journalists and editors. Church Committee findings, Carl Bernstein's 1977 Rolling Stone report.
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Operation Ajax (1953): The CIA-MI6 Coup Against Mosaddegh
The August 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, orchestrated by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. under TPAJAX. Officially acknowledged by the CIA in August 2013.
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Operation CHAOS
The CIA program targeting the US anti-war and civil rights movements. Files on 7,200 Americans, 300,000+ names indexed. Disclosed by Hersh's December 1974 NYT story.
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Project Stargate
The two-decade military-intelligence engagement with parapsychology, from SRI's Targ and Puthoff through the AIR report that ended the program in 1995.
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The Phoenix Program
Coordinated under CORDS by Robert Komer and William Colby. Officially 'neutralized' 26,369 Viet Cong cadre. Critics characterized the program as a targeted-assassination operation.
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The Iran-Contra Affair
The Reagan-era arms-for-hostages and Contra-funding scheme. The Boland Amendments, the Al-Shiraa disclosure, the Tower Commission, the Walsh Independent Counsel investigation.
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Operation Mongoose
The Kennedy-era CIA-DoD program against Castro, run by Edward Lansdale with William Harvey's Task Force W. ZR/RIFLE, the mafia subcontract, the Castro assassination-methods inventory.
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Area 51 / Groom Lake
The classified USAF detachment officially acknowledged in declassified CIA history June 2013. U-2, A-12 OXCART, F-117 development.
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Operation Gladio (1956-1990)
The NATO/CIA stay-behind paramilitary networks across Western Europe. Andreotti's October 1990 parliamentary disclosure; the Italian parliamentary investigation.
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The Bay of Pigs (April 1961)
The CIA-organized invasion of Cuba by Brigade 2506. Four days of military failure. The Kirkpatrick Report (classified until 1998).
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Project BLUEBIRD (1950-1951)
Authorized April 20, 1950 under DCI Hillenkoetter and the Office of Security; renamed ARTICHOKE in August 1951.
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Operation PBSUCCESS (1954): The CIA Coup Against Árbenz in Guatemala
The June 1954 CIA-orchestrated overthrow of democratically-elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz. The 1999 CIA acknowledgment.
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The CIA Family Jewels (1973 / 2007 release)
The 702-page internal CIA compilation of illegal activities prepared in 1973 under Director Schlesinger. Leaked to Seymour Hersh.
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HTLINGUAL (1952-1973)
The CIA's 21-year mail-opening program at JFK Airport and the San Francisco Hubbard Mail Facility. ~215,000 international letters opened.
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Operation Midnight Climax (1954-1965)
The CIA MK-Ultra subproject run out of safe houses in San Francisco and New York. George Hunter White's prostitute-procured operation; clients dosed with LSD; CIA officers observed through one-way mirrors.
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Operation Condor (1975-1983)
South American Cold War intelligence-cooperation program coordinated by DINA's Manuel Contreras. The Letelier-Moffitt bombing in Washington (1976); the 1992 Archives of Terror discovery; 60,000-80,000 estimated victims.
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Project MKNAOMI: The CIA's Biological and Toxin Weapons Stockpile
The 1953-1970 CIA-Army program at Fort Detrick to develop, store, and deliver biological agents and toxins. Nixon's 1969 renunciation, the retained shellfish toxin discovered in 1975, and the Church Committee dart-gun display.
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Project MKSEARCH: MK-Ultra's Successor Program
The 1964-1973 CIA program that continued MK-Ultra's research under Sidney Gottlieb. Its subprograms MKOFTEN and MKCHICKWIT, the January 1973 destruction of the records, and the 1977 financial-record recovery.
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Vault 7 (2017)
WikiLeaks' 2017 publication of the CIA's hacking tools, from the Center for Cyber Intelligence. The Weeping Angel smart-TV exploit, the zero-day-hoarding debate, the internal security-failure report, and the conviction of Joshua Schulte.
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Operation 40
The CIA-organized group of Cuban exiles formed around the Bay of Pigs as a counterintelligence and political-action cadre. The documented core, the assassination-squad allegations, the JFK conspiracy accretions, and what the record actually supports.
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Operation Habrink
The Cold War CIA operation to acquire Soviet weapons technology supplied to Indonesia, including the K-13/Atoll missile, the SA-2, the Styx, a Whiskey-class submarine, and the Badger bomber. The intelligence coup, its impact in Vietnam, and the David Barnett betrayal.
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Did Hitler Escape to Argentina?
The claim that Hitler fled to South America. What the declassified CIA files actually say (a 1955 tip the agency dismissed), the real Nazi ratlines, and the 2018 study of his teeth that confirmed he died in 1945.
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Sidney Gottlieb: The CIA's Poisoner in Chief
The CIA chemist who directed MK-Ultra, dosed Frank Olson, built the poisons for Castro and Lumumba, and shredded the records in 1973 - and the federal court that held the destruction against him.