Cases once officially denied and later confirmed by the documentary record. 70 case files in the archive.
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.
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.
The FBI's covert program of surveillance, infiltration, and disruption of US political organizations from 1956 to 1971. Five sub-programs, the King 'suicide letter,' the Hampton killing.
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.
The documented record of Cold War-era CIA relationships with American journalists and editors. Church Committee findings, Carl Bernstein's 1977 Rolling Stone report.
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.
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.
The two-decade military-intelligence engagement with parapsychology, from SRI's Targ and Puthoff through the AIR report that ended the program in 1995.
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.
The US Public Health Service's forty-year experiment on 600 Black men in Macon County, Alabama. Penicillin became standard care in 1947 and was deliberately withheld.
Daniel Ellsberg's leak of the McNamara-commissioned 7,000-page Vietnam War history. NYT v. United States (1971).
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.
The NSA contractor's June 2013 disclosures via Greenwald, Poitras, and Gellman. PRISM, STELLAR WIND, MUSCULAR, XKeyscore, Section 215 metadata.
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.
The classified USAF detachment officially acknowledged in declassified CIA history June 2013. U-2, A-12 OXCART, F-117 development.
The USAF investigation that reviewed 12,618 reports and classified 701 as unidentified. Ruppelt, Hynek, the Robertson Panel (1953), the Condon Committee (1968-69).
The mid-to-late 13th-century abandonment of the Four Corners. The 1276-1299 Great Drought (Douglass tree-rings), internal-conflict evidence.
The Pentagon's new UAP document portal, launched May 2026 under the 2024 NDAA Disclosure provisions.
The August 2 USS Maddox engagement (real); the August 4 'second attack' (didn't happen). NSA historian Robert Hanyok's 2005 study finding SIGINT was deliberately misrepresented.
The NATO/CIA stay-behind paramilitary networks across Western Europe. Andreotti's October 1990 parliamentary disclosure; the Italian parliamentary investigation.
The CIA-organized invasion of Cuba by Brigade 2506. Four days of military failure. The Kirkpatrick Report (classified until 1998).
Authorized April 20, 1950 under DCI Hillenkoetter and the Office of Security; renamed ARTICHOKE in August 1951.
The Israeli Air Force and Navy attack on the US Navy SIGINT ship USS Liberty during the Six-Day War. 34 American dead, 174 wounded.
The April 2019 MacBook left at a Wilmington repair shop. The October 2020 NY Post publication and platform suppression. The 2022 authentication by NYT and Washington Post.
The June 1954 CIA-orchestrated overthrow of democratically-elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz. The 1999 CIA acknowledgment.
18 Manhattan Project-era patients injected with plutonium without informed consent at Strong Memorial, University of Chicago, UCSF, and Oak Ridge.
The NSA's secret bulk-interception of essentially all international telegrams entering or leaving the United States, with the cooperation of Western Union, ITT, and RCA.
The US Army Signal Intelligence Service's decryption of Soviet diplomatic cables. Gene Grabeel's 1943 start; Meredith Gardner's 1946 breakthrough.
The 702-page internal CIA compilation of illegal activities prepared in 1973 under Director Schlesinger. Leaked to Seymour Hersh.
The Philadelphia Police Department's helicopter bombing of the MOVE row house at 6221 Osage Avenue. 11 MOVE members killed including 5 children; 65 row homes destroyed.
The CIA's 21-year mail-opening program at JFK Airport and the San Francisco Hubbard Mail Facility. ~215,000 international letters opened.
The NSA watchlist program tracking ~1,650 American citizens, including Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, Tom Wicker, Senators Frank Church and Howard Baker.
The US Army Chemical Corps' three-decade program of chemical-warfare-agent and incapacitating-drug testing on ~7,000 soldier-volunteers. LSD, BZ, VX.
The 28 pages classified by President Bush in 2002 from the Joint Inquiry's final report on alleged Saudi-government support for the 9/11 hijackers. Released July 2016.
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.
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.
The Navy SIGINT ship under Commander Bucher captured by North Korea in disputed waters. One sailor killed, 82 crew taken prisoner, 11-month captivity. The ship remains in Pyongyang as a war trophy.
270 killed when a Semtex bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Camp Zeist trial; Megrahi's 2001 conviction and 2009 release. Libya's 2003 acknowledgment.
The US Vela 6911 satellite's detection of a double flash characteristic of an atmospheric nuclear test in the South Atlantic. The Carter-era Ad Hoc Panel's non-nuclear ruling; the continuing Israeli-South African joint-test hypothesis.
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.
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.
The US Public Health Service deliberately infected prisoners, soldiers, psychiatric patients, and sex workers with STDs without consent. Discovered by Susan Reverby in 2010; Obama's apology; the 2011 'Ethically Impossible' report.
Dr. Albert Kligman's dermatological and chemical testing on Philadelphia inmates. The Dow dioxin studies, Army chemical-agent trials, Allen Hornblum's 'Acres of Skin,' and the 2022 University of Pennsylvania apology.
The US Army biological-defense program in which ~2,300 Seventh-day Adventist conscientious objectors volunteered as test subjects at Fort Detrick under informed consent. Q fever, tularemia, the Eight Ball; no participant died.
The US Navy's covert release of Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii over San Francisco to test a biological attack on a city. The Stanford infection cluster, the death of Edward Nevin, the 1977 disclosure, and Nevin v. United States.
The US Army Chemical Corps' largest open-air test, dispersing zinc cadmium sulfide tracer from aircraft across the continent. Particles detected 1,000+ miles downwind; the cadmium concern; the 1997 National Research Council review.
The Project 112 tests that exposed Navy ships and sailors to chemical and biological agents and simulants to study vulnerability. Crews often not informed; the 2000-2003 DoD disclosure; the 2007 Institute of Medicine health study.
The AEC's medical study of the Marshall Islanders exposed to Castle Bravo thermonuclear-test fallout. The 15-megaton yield, the contamination of Rongelap, the thyroid-disease toll, and the contested research-versus-care question.
MIT and Harvard researchers fed radioactive tracers to disabled boys at a Massachusetts state school via a 'Science Club,' with misleading consent letters. Funded by the AEC and Quaker Oats; the 1993-94 disclosure and 1998 settlement.
The AEC program to measure strontium-90 fallout accumulation in human bone, which covertly collected human remains worldwide, many from deceased infants without family consent. The Libby 'body snatching' remark and the 1995 ACHRE findings.
The Hanford plutonium plant's radioactive releases, including the December 1949 Green Run intentional release of iodine-131 over eastern Washington. The downwinders, the 1986 FOIA release, and the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study.
The NSA warrantless surveillance program authorized after 9/11. Bulk metadata and content collection, the March 2004 hospital-room confrontation at DOJ, the 2005 New York Times disclosure, and the transition into FISA Section 215 and 702.
The NSA program that collects internet communications from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, and other US providers under Section 702. The June 2013 Snowden disclosure, the 'direct access' dispute, and the incidental collection of Americans.
The joint NSA-GCHQ program that tapped the private fiber links between Google and Yahoo data centers abroad, collecting data in bulk where it ran unencrypted. The 'SSL added and removed here' slide and the encryption arms race it triggered.
The NSA tool that counted and mapped its global metadata collection on a color-coded heat map, including billions of US records. Its existence complicated official statements that the NSA could not count its domestic collection.
The Five Eyes signals-intelligence collection and sharing system under the UKUSA Agreement. Satellite interception, Duncan Campbell and Nicky Hager's reporting, the 2001 European Parliament investigation, and the commercial-espionage allegations.
The DARPA program led by John Poindexter to detect terrorists by mining personal data. The all-seeing-eye logo, the public backlash, the 2003 congressional defunding, and the migration of its components into the intelligence community.
The FBI's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr.: the 1963 wiretap authorization, the hotel-room bugging, the 1964 anonymous 'suicide letter,' the Church Committee findings, and the recordings sealed at the National Archives until 2027.
The December 1969 police killing of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in Chicago, the FBI informant who supplied the floor plan, the discredited 'shootout' account, the COINTELPRO campaign against the BPP, and the 1982 civil settlement.
The FBI campaign against AIM, the 71-day 1973 Wounded Knee occupation, the Pine Ridge 'reign of terror,' the 1975 firefight that killed two FBI agents, and the contested conviction of Leonard Peltier, commuted in 2025.
Nixon's 1970 proposal to coordinate the FBI, CIA, NSA, and DIA against anti-war groups using illegal techniques including burglary and mail-opening. Approved and rescinded within days after Hoover's objection; disclosed via Watergate and the Church Committee.
The FBI's counterintelligence program against the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists. Its informants and disruption tactics, the troubling case of agent provocateur Gary Thomas Rowe and the murder of Viola Liuzzo, and the Church Committee's assessment.
Propaganda Due, the clandestine Italian Masonic lodge under Licio Gelli. The 1981 discovery of the 962-name membership list, the Banco Ambrosiano collapse, the Strategy of Tension links, and the parliamentary investigation. A documented elite conspiracy.
The campaign of terrorism during Italy's Years of Lead in which elements of the state and the far right conducted or facilitated bombings to be blamed on the left. Piazza Fontana, the Bologna bombing, the Gladio and P2 connections.
General Nathan Twining September 1947 letter stating the flying-disc phenomenon was something real and not visionary, which led to the creation of Project SIGN. The text, the context, and its place in UFO history.
The NASA-commissioned study on the implications of peaceful space activities, famous for its short passage on the societal consequences of discovering extraterrestrial life, and how UFO lore has overstated it into a cover-up directive.
Isaac Newton prophetic manuscript (Yahuda MS 7.3, c. 1704), in which he calculated from the Book of Daniel that the world would not end before 2060. Newton hidden theology, his anti-Trinitarian heterodoxy, and the centuries his religious papers stayed unseen.
The 1960s US research program into the Moscow Signal, the low-level microwave radiation the Soviets beamed at the US Embassy in Moscow. The bioeffects experiments, the eavesdropping-versus-mind-effects debate, and the health questions that echo into the Havana Syndrome era.
The US Army-funded social science program of 1964-65 to model the causes of revolution and insurgency in developing nations. The Chile exposure, the diplomatic uproar, the cancellation, and its lasting mark on the ethics of government-funded research.
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.