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Advanced Human Technology 5

Peek: Extraordinary Human Body Function · Human Potential · Mind Projection…

  • Extraordinary Human Body Function Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF) was the Chinese government term for claimed paranormal abilities investigated by state-funded programs after physicist Qian Xuesen's 1979 endorsement, with the DIA's discovery of its scale providing competitive justification for continued American Psychoenergetics and STAR GATE investment.
  • Human Potential Human Potential refers to the inherent capabilities and untapped resources believed to exist within all individuals.
  • Mind Projection Mind Projection is a claimed Psi ability where an individual can influence or implant thoughts into another person's mind.
  • Psychotronic Weapons Psychotronic Weapons are a theoretical class of electromagnetic weapons, described in Soviet Union science journals, designed to influence or degrade human behavior and cognition.
  • Synthetic Telepathy Synthetic Telepathy, also known as the Frey Effect, is a technology discovered by Allan H. Frey in 1961.

Crime Investigation 1

Peek: cocaine

  • cocaine Cocaine was the commodity that linked Contra war fundraising to the devastation of American inner cities, with CIA-connected networks trafficking thousands of kilos into the United States during the 1980s.

Drug Trafficking 1

Peek: Crack Cocaine

  • Crack Cocaine Smokable, mass-producible form of cocaine that transformed the drug from an expensive luxury into a cheap commodity devastating American inner cities throughout the 1980s.

Esoteric & Historical Concept 24

Peek: Antichrist · Apollo Disks · Aura…

  • Antichrist The Antichrist lectures are a four-part private series Peter Thiel delivered in San Francisco in 2025 arguing that the biblical Antichrist will arise through a one-world government built to manage existential risk, and naming technology critics including Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Bostrom as its agents.
  • Apollo Disks The Apollo Disks were a collection of encoded digital disks containing evidence of the international child pornography network operated through the Apollo Bulletin Board Service by Gerrit-Jan Ulrich from Zandvoort, Netherlands.
  • Aura An Aura is a supposed emanation of energy or light surrounding a person or object, believed by some to be a manifestation of their life force or spiritual essence.
  • Backster Effect The Backster Effect is a controversial theory proposed by Cleve Backster, a former Central Intelligence Agency polygraph expert.
  • Chan ARG Ecosystem The chan-ARG ecosystem is the loose constellation of Discordian-influenced alternate reality games and hashtag-driven meta-narratives, including TheGame23 and 00AG9603, that operate across the imageboard, Twitter, and WordPress 'dataplex' sites, and that academic information-warfare research has mapped as a component of the QAnon Twitter influence network.
  • Cold War The Cold War (1947-1991) was the period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that is the overarching context for most of the intelligence operations, covert programs, and clandestine financial networks documented throughout this vault.
  • Cryptomnesia Cryptomnesia is a phenomenon where a forgotten memory reappears without being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is a new and original thought.
  • Dowsing Dowsing is a divinatory practice used to locate water, minerals, or other hidden objects using a divining rod, usually a forked twig, but also a pendulum or one's hand.
  • Ein Brera Ein Brera, meaning 'no alternative' in Hebrew, is a doctrine deeply ingrained in Israeli strategic thought.
  • EtherSec EtherSec (also styled #eTHErSEC) was a niche Anonymous-adjacent intelligence-research Twitter community active around 2016 to 2017, connected to the Tyler AI-entity claims of Quinn Michaels and to the broader TheGame23 / DarkSec fringe ecosystem, whose participating accounts tagged Peter Thiel, Palantir, Q, and QAnon alongside the EtherSec hashtag.
  • Fascism Fascism was the authoritarian nationalist ideology of interwar Europe that American sympathizers attempted to import in the 1930s via the Business Plot and other efforts, and whose remnants were recruited into U.S. intelligence via Operation Paperclip.
  • Geller Effect The 'Geller Effect' refers to the phenomenon where individuals, particularly children and teenagers, reportedly become able to bend metal or influence electronic devices after witnessing Uri Geller perform such feats.
  • Glossolalia Glossolalia, commonly known as 'speaking in tongues,' is the phenomenon of uttering words or sounds that resemble language but are not understood by the speaker or listeners.
  • Nuremberg Code Code of medical research ethics established by American judges at the 1947 Nuremberg Doctors Trial, requiring voluntary informed consent, which the CIA systematically violated in its MKULTRA behavioral control programs.
  • Parapsychology Parapsychology is the scientific study of paranormal or psychic phenomena, including extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK).
  • Pauli Effect The Pauli Effect is the anecdotal tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people.
  • Qi Qi (also chi) is the traditional Chinese concept of a vital life force flowing through living things, central to Chinese medicine and martial arts, and invoked by Chinese parapsychology researchers in the EHBF programs as the mechanism underlying paranormal phenomena.
  • Qigong Qigong is a traditional Chinese practice of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for health, spirituality, and martial arts training.
  • Russian Cosmism Russian Cosmism is the late-19th-century movement originating with the Orthodox mystic Nikolai Fedorov that called for the technological resurrection of all the dead, radical life extension, and the colonization of space, and it supplies the 'C' in the TESCREAL acronym.
  • Synchronicity Synchronicity is Carl Jung's concept of meaningful coincidences that lack causal connection, invoked in parapsychology research as a potential framework for understanding psychic phenomena that defy normal probability.
  • The Nautilus The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, launched in 1954, whose name was attached to a fabricated 1960 French magazine story about telepathy experiments that inadvertently accelerated Soviet psi research funding.
  • The Nine Principles and Forces 'The Nine Principles and Forces' was the name given to a group of entities that the Hindu mystic Dr. D. G. Vinod allegedly channeled during a séance at Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation on New Year's Eve, 1952.[^1]
  • THE PHENOMENON The phenomenon refers to the multi-thousand-year history of apparent interactions between humanity and non-human intelligence - recorded as gods, demons, and spirits in earlier eras and as UFOs and UAPs in the 20th and 21st centuries - which this vault approaches through government coverups and declassified sensor data.
  • Whole Earth Catalog The Whole Earth Catalog was Stewart Brand's counterculture compendium of tools and ideas, published from 1968, subtitled Access to Tools, opened with we are as gods, and won the National Book Award in 1972.

Ideology 23

Peek: Accelerationism · Cypherpunks · Effective Accelerationism…

  • Accelerationism Accelerationism, in the far-right context, is the strategic doctrine that targeted violence will hasten the collapse of liberal democratic society and create conditions for white nationalist reconstitution, foundational to Atomwaffen Division, Terrorgram Collective, and The Base.
  • Cypherpunks The cypherpunks were a cryptography-and-privacy movement organized around a mailing list founded in 1992 by Eric Hughes, Timothy May, and John Gilmore, whose advocacy of strong encryption and digital cash against state control ran forward into Bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
  • Effective Accelerationism Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) is a Silicon Valley techno-optimist movement that emerged in 2022 advocating the unrestricted acceleration of artificial intelligence and technology, defined against effective altruism's AI-safety 'doomerism,' and drawing on the accelerationism of Nick Land.
  • Effective Altruism Effective Altruism is a movement that emerged around 2011 from Oxford philosophy and the LessWrong rationalist community, advancing evidence-based giving and a 'longtermist' concern with the far future and artificial-intelligence risk, whose 2013 summit Peter Thiel keynoted and whose largest funder, Sam Bankman-Fried, collapsed in the 2022 FTX fraud.
  • Eugenics Eugenics is the project of improving the human species through controlled reproduction, named by Francis Galton in 1883, which drove sterilization and immigration laws and the Holocaust, was repackaged after the war as race-and-intelligence research, and is identified by critics as a root of the transhumanist and longtermist worldview.
  • Extropianism Extropianism is the libertarian transhumanist movement founded by Max More in the late 1980s around the Extropy Institute and its 1990s mailing list, the seedbed from which Nick Bostrom's longtermism, the rationalist community, and parts of the cypherpunk and cryptocurrency worlds emerged.
  • Great Replacement Theory The 'Great Replacement' is a white nationalist conspiracy theory drawn from Renaud Camus's 2011 French book and operationalized by Brenton Tarrant's Christchurch manifesto as ideological justification for anti-immigrant violence, subsequently replicated by Payton Gendron and others.
  • Human Biodiversity Human biodiversity (HBD) is a euphemism for hereditarian race science, popularized by Steve Sailer in the late 1990s, asserting genetically rooted differences in intelligence and behavior between racial groups, that became a connective doctrine linking the rationalist community, neoreaction, and the alt-right.
  • Insight Roles Insight Roles is an Order of Nine Angles doctrine prescribing that adherents commit crimes, including violence, as a required stage of spiritual development, the practice most directly connecting O9A ideology to real-world terrorism.
  • Iron Gates Iron Gates is a 2014 Martinet Press novel depicting a post-collapse race war through graphic O9A-doctrine violence, which became required reading in Atomwaffen Division and was distributed through Terrorgram channels into the wider accelerationist ecosystem.
  • Lorebook The Lorebook is 764 Inferno's internal currency system, consisting of curated CSAM collections coerced from victims that members trade to establish rank, the core organizational mechanism distinguishing 764's hierarchy from ideologically motivated networks.
  • Neoreaction Neoreaction (NRx) is the political-philosophical movement founded by Curtis Yarvin (Moldbug) through his blog Unqualified Reservations from 2007 onward, which argues that liberal democracy is a failing theocratic successor to mainline Protestantism and should be replaced by corporate sovereign entities under neocameral governance.
  • Nihilistic Violent Extremism Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) is an FBI and DOJ classification for extremist violence driven by misanthropy and network status-seeking rather than unified ideology, applied to the 764 network and Com-adjacent groups to distinguish them from ideologically motivated violent extremism.
  • Rationalist Community The Rationalist Community is the Bay Area subculture that formed around Eliezer Yudkowsky's LessWrong writings and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in the late 2000s, organized around probability-based reasoning and artificial-intelligence existential risk, and from whose social network the Effective Altruism movement and the Leverage Research, Vassarite, and Zizian cult formations all emerged.
  • Saints Culture Saints Culture is the accelerationist neo-Nazi practice of venerating mass killers as martyred exemplary figures, systematized by the Terrorgram Collective into a trading-card propaganda operation designed to inspire successive attacks through documented inspiration chains.
  • Seven Fold Way The Seven Fold Way is the Order of Nine Angles' seven-stage initiatory system, progressing from Initiate to Immortal through prescribed ordeals including Insight Roles, giving O9A a structure that embeds criminal violence as a spiritual requirement for advancement.
  • Siege Culture Siege Culture is the accelerationist neo-Nazi ideological ecosystem organized around James Mason's collected writings, which advocate leaderless resistance and lone-wolf violence, adopted as foundational doctrine by Atomwaffen Division and circulated into successor networks by Iron March and Terrorgram Collective.
  • Singularitarianism Singularitarianism is the belief, named by Vernor Vinge in 1993 and popularized by Ray Kurzweil's 2005 book and his Singularity University, that accelerating technology will soon produce a machine superintelligence and an irreversible transformation of human life.
  • TESCREAL TESCREAL is an acronym coined by Émile Torres and Timnit Gebru for a bundle of seven overlapping ideologies, transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism, that they argue share roots in twentieth-century eugenics and together drive the race to build artificial general intelligence.
  • The Californian Ideology The Californian Ideology is the 1995 essay by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron diagnosing the fusion of San Francisco hippie counterculture with free-market neoliberalism and technological determinism in 1990s Wired-era tech culture.
  • The Sovereign Individual The Sovereign Individual is a 1997 book by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson that argues digital encryption and electronic commerce will erode the taxing capacity of nation-states and produce a new class of mobile, sovereign individuals operating beyond territorial jurisdiction, repeatedly cited publicly by Peter Thiel as prophetic.
  • Transhumanism Transhumanism is the movement to use technology to transcend the biological limits of the human condition, named in its modern sense by Julian Huxley in 1957 and organized academically by the World Transhumanist Association that Nick Bostrom and David Pearce founded in 1998.
  • Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is the moral theory, running from Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill through Henry Sidgwick to Peter Singer, that the right act maximizes aggregate welfare, and its quantifying logic became the operating premise of effective altruism and longtermism.

Information System 3

Peek: FOIMS · JIS · Relational Database

  • FOIMS Field Office Information Management System (FOIMS) is a computer program developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  • JIS The Jail Information System (JIS) was a computer-based inmate management system developed by INSLAW under contract as an expansion of the PROMIS software, deployed across multiple pilot jurisdictions for the American Justice Institute.
  • Relational Database A relational database is a data storage system organizing information into structured tables with defined relationships, the architecture underlying PROMIS and the INSLAW case management software at the center of the PROMIS Software Scandal.

Intelligence & Government 1

Peek: KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation

  • KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation is the CIA's classified July 1963 interrogation manual that codified MKULTRA-derived techniques including regression induction, sensory deprivation, and psychogenic manipulation, declassified in 1997 and cited as the basis for interrogation techniques used in CIA operations from Vietnam through the post-9/11 enhanced interrogation program.

Intelligence Concept 30

Peek: 18 U.S.C. § 2339A · 18 U.S.C. § 956 · A Treatment…

  • 18 U.S.C. § 2339A 18 U.S.C. § 2339A is the federal material support to terrorists statute that does not require a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, instead requiring only that support be provided knowing it will be used to carry out one of its listed predicate offenses.
  • 18 U.S.C. § 956 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) prohibits conspiracies within the United States to murder, kidnap, or maim persons in a foreign country, and functions as the predicate offense anchoring the terrorism material support charge in United States v. Martin against 764 Network leader Baron Cain Martin.
  • A Treatment The CIA's classified interrogation technique combining drugs, hypnosis, and psychological regression to extract information and induce amnesia, developed under the ARTICHOKE program.
  • Disinformation Disinformation is false information deliberately and often covertly spread in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth.
  • Dual Loyalty Dual loyalty is a concept that has been a concern to the American intelligence community since the creation of Israel in 1948.
  • Eight-Martini Results 'Eight-Martini Results' is a term coined within the Central Intelligence Agency to describe highly accurate and unsettling PSI-INT that is so inexplicable it drives intelligence officers to drink.
  • ELINT ELINT (Electronic Intelligence) is a category of intelligence gathering that involves the interception and analysis of electronic signals, excluding communications intelligence (COMINT).
  • FISA Section 702 Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authorizes warrantless collection of foreigners' communications from U.S. service providers, with documented application to Americans' communications through 'backdoor searches' that courts have found to require Fourth Amendment scrutiny, including in at least one domestic extremism prosecution.
  • Giggle Factor The 'Giggle Factor' is a term used in intelligence communities to describe the skepticism and ridicule associated with Parapsychology research and its potential operational use.
  • Ground Truth Ground Truth refers to information that is known to be true or accurate through direct observation or measurement.
  • Human Intelligence Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is intelligence gathered through interpersonal contact via foreign agents and case officers, as distinguished from technical collection disciplines such as SIGINT and IMINT.
  • Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Human Intelligence (HUMINT) refers to intelligence gathered from human sources, the discipline in which CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton was considered most expert.
  • Human Use Experimentation Human Use Experimentation refers to the ethical and regulatory framework governing research involving human subjects, particularly in military and intelligence contexts.
  • I&W I&W (Indications and Warning) is the highest-priority category of intelligence, covering military activity and threatening actions, and the failure of I&W mechanisms was a central finding in post-mortems of the 1973 Yom Kippur War intelligence failure.
  • KH-11 KH-11 KENNAN was the first U.S. reconnaissance satellite capable of real-time electro-optical imaging, launched December 19, 1976, and compromised when its technical manual was leaked to the Soviets via Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
  • NSC-68 NSC-68 was the April 1950 National Security Council policy document authored by Paul Nitze that argued Soviet military strength required the United States to quadruple defense spending, replacing George Kennan's political containment doctrine with a militarized framework that defined American Cold War strategy for the following decade.
  • Ostpolitik Ostpolitik was West German Chancellor Willy Brandt's 1969-1974 policy of normalizing relations with East Germany and the Soviet bloc, producing the 1970 Treaty of Moscow, the Treaty of Warsaw, and the 1972 Basic Treaty recognizing East Germany, for which Brandt received the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • PHOTINT_IMINT PHOTINT (Photographic Intelligence), also known as IMINT (Imagery Intelligence), is a form of intelligence gathering that relies on photographic and other imagery, typically obtained from reconnaissance satellites or spy planes.
  • Psi Gap The 'Psi Gap' was a perceived disparity in Psi research capabilities between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  • PSI-INT PSI-INT, or psi-derived intelligence, refers to information gathered through psychic phenomena such as remote viewing, used for intelligence purposes.
  • Psychic Spying Psychic Spying refers to the use of psi abilities such as remote viewing for intelligence collection, the operational premise of the U.S. Army's STARGATE program and the Soviet Union's parallel parapsychology programs.
  • Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), enacted April 20, 2024, reauthorized FISA Section 702 through April 20, 2026, codified modest procedural reforms to FBI querying practices, and defeated a bipartisan warrant amendment by a 212-212 tied House vote.
  • Safehouses CIA-rented apartments in New York and San Francisco where George White conducted Operation Midnight Climax, dosing unwitting subjects with LSD and observing through two-way mirrors.
  • SIGINT_COMINT SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) covers the interception of virtually all electronic signals, while COMINT (Communications Intelligence) generally refers to signals from telephone or radio conversations.
  • Special Access Programs Special Access Programs (SAPs) are the most highly classified category of U.S. national security programs, requiring separate authorization beyond standard security clearances; they are referenced throughout this vault in connection with unacknowledged intelligence operations, black budget programs, and classified UAP research programs.
  • Technical Intelligence Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) refers to intelligence gathered through technical collection means such as satellite imagery and signals intercepts, as distinguished from Human Intelligence (HUMINT).
  • Telepathic Interrogation Telepathic Interrogation is a claimed Psi technique involving the use of Telepathy to extract information from a subject.
  • The Octopus The Octopus is a term used by investigative journalist Danny Casolaro to describe a sprawling alleged criminal network linking the PROMIS software theft, Iran-Contra, the October Surprise, BCCI, and intelligence-connected drug trafficking under a single self-perpetuating criminal enterprise.
  • Thiel Influence Network The Thiel Influence Network is the set of overlapping commercial, convening, ideological, and political vehicles built around Peter Thiel since 2002, including the Thiel Fellowship, Founders Fund, Palantir Technologies, Dialog, Hereticon, Per Aspera Policy, and Teneo Network, each operating at a different stage of recruitment, capital deployment, or institutional positioning.
  • VELA Satellite VELA was a U.S. nuclear detection satellite program whose September 22, 1979 detection of two bright flashes over the South Indian Ocean produced the 'Vela Incident,' widely believed to be an Israeli-South African nuclear test that the U.S. government never officially confirmed.

Military Technology 6

Peek: Force de Frappe · Jericho I · TOW Missile…

  • Force de Frappe Force de Frappe ('strike force') is France's independent nuclear deterrent, developed by the mid-1960s with the doctrine - articulated by theorist Pierre Gallois - that even limited nuclear capability creates deterrence by making any attack too costly for an aggressor.
  • Jericho I The Jericho I was a medium-range ballistic missile jointly developed by Israel and the French Dassault company beginning in 1963, designed to deliver nuclear warheads to targets 300 miles away.
  • TOW Missile The BGM-71 TOW is a U.S. Army crew-portable anti-tank guided missile system developed by Hughes Aircraft that was the primary weapons system transferred to Iran through Israeli intermediaries in the August-September 1985 phase of the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scheme.
  • U-2 Spy Plane The U-2 is a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft jointly developed by the CIA and Air Force under Lockheed cover, operational from 1956, whose overflight missions gathered critical intelligence on Soviet nuclear facilities and the Dimona reactor before a U-2 was shot down over the USSR in May 1960.
  • USS Nimitz The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose F/A-18 pilots made the November 2004 'Tic Tac' encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena off San Diego - corroborated by USS Princeton radar data - considered the most technically documented UAP case in U.S. military history.
  • USS Roosevelt The USS Roosevelt (CVN-71) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier whose 2014-2015 pre-deployment workups produced twenty-two documented encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena off the southeastern U.S. coast, prompting Navy policy changes on UAP reporting.

Nuclear Concept 6

Peek: Heavy Water · Hydrogen Bomb · MUF…

  • Heavy Water Heavy water (deuterium oxide, D2O) is a form of water that contains a higher than normal concentration of the isotope deuterium, rather than the common hydrogen-1 isotope.
  • Hydrogen Bomb A hydrogen bomb is a thermonuclear weapon deriving its explosive force from nuclear fusion reactions triggered by a fission primary, making it orders of magnitude more powerful than a fission bomb alone.
  • MUF MUF ('material unaccounted for') is the nuclear industry term for the discrepancy between expected and measured quantities of nuclear material in a facility, whose large-scale irregular occurrence at the NUMEC plant is central evidence in allegations that Israel diverted enriched uranium for its nuclear weapons program.
  • Neutron Bomb A neutron bomb is a type of thermonuclear weapon that utilizes enhanced radiation and minimal blast to kill living organisms within a limited range, with limited damage to property.
  • Nuclear Proliferation Nuclear proliferation refers to the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as 'nuclear weapon states' by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
  • Samson Option The Samson Option is a concept deeply ingrained in Israel's national security doctrine, referring to the idea that Israel possesses a nuclear arsenal that it would use as a last resort to prevent its destruction, even if it means causing massive...

Psi Phenomenon 14

Peek: Clairvoyance · Eyeless Sight · Mind-to-Mind Telepathy…

  • Clairvoyance Clairvoyance is the purported paranormal ability to perceive information about physical reality through extrasensory means, distinguished from telepathy by its direct perception of external reality rather than mind-to-mind transmission, and the operative phenomenon underlying the U.S. government's STARGATE remote viewing program.
  • Eyeless Sight Eyeless sight is the claimed psi ability to perceive visual information without using the eyes, demonstrated by Uri Geller in blindfolded stage performances and studied in Soviet parapsychology research under the label 'skin vision.'
  • Mind-to-Mind Telepathy Mind-to-mind telepathy is the direct mental communication of thoughts or feelings between individuals without conventional sensory channels, a subset of telepathy that was a core focus of Cold War parapsychology research programs.
  • Out-of-Body Experience An out-of-body experience (OBE) is the sensation of consciousness leaving the physical body, reported in connection with psi research, near-death experiences, and the altered states of consciousness studied at the Monroe Institute using Hemi-Sync audio technology.
  • Precognition Precognition is the claimed psi ability to perceive future events before they occur, one of the phenomena studied in government parapsychology research programs throughout the Cold War alongside remote viewing and telepathy.
  • Psi Psi is a general term in Parapsychology for psychic phenomena, encompassing abilities such as Extrasensory Perception (ESP) and Psychokinesis (PK).
  • Psychoenergetics Psychoenergetics was the Soviet-coined and DIA-adopted term for government parapsychology research covering clairvoyance, telepathy, and psychokinesis as potential intelligence tools, with the DIA's 1981 Psychoenergetics program serving as organizational predecessor to STAR GATE.
  • Psychokinesis Psychokinesis (PK), also known as telekinesis, is a claimed Psi ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction.
  • Remote Action Remote Action (RA) is a parapsychology term for psychokinetic mental influence on physical systems without contact, used by U.S. government researchers as a formal operational category alongside remote viewing in STARGATE-era programs.
  • Remote Perturbation Remote Perturbation (RP) is a parapsychology term for mentally disturbing or altering a physical system, a form of psychokinesis that was studied under U.S. government-funded programs including STARGATE.
  • Remote Viewing Remote Viewing is a controversial mental faculty or technique in which an individual is said to be able to acquire information about a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception (ESP) or 'sensing with the mind.
  • Sheep-Goat Effect The sheep-goat effect is a term coined by parapsychologist Gertrude Schmeidler in 1942 to describe the tendency for individuals who believe in psi phenomena to score better in ESP and psychokinesis experiments than skeptics.
  • Telepathy Telepathy is the claimed direct mental communication of thoughts or feelings between minds without conventional sensory channels, one of the core phenomena studied in government parapsychology programs including the Stargate Project and Soviet psi research.
  • Temporal Displacement Temporal Displacement in Remote Viewing refers to the phenomenon where a psychic perceives a target in a different time period (past or future) than the present moment.

Psi Research Program 1

Peek: Extrasensory Perception

  • Extrasensory Perception Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the claimed ability to receive information through means beyond the known sensory channels; the term was coined by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s and became the subject of sustained U.S. and Soviet government research programs through the Cold War.

Psychology & Behavioral Science 11

Peek: Brainwashing · Dissociative Identity Disorder · Electroshock…

  • Brainwashing The coercive manipulation of beliefs and behavior through isolation and psychological pressure, studied by the CIA in the 1950s following Korean War prisoner cases, with Harold Wolff and Lawrence Hinkle concluding Soviet methods relied on police techniques rather than exotic technology.
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative identity disorder, abbreviated as DID, emerged as a clinical concept describing a condition in which trauma induces dissociative states leading to the development of multiple distinct personalities within a single individual.
  • Electroshock The application of electric current to the brain to produce seizures, used as both a psychiatric treatment and, in D. Ewen Cameron's depatterning protocol at the Allan Memorial Institute, as a tool to erase memories and break down personality structures.
  • False Memory Syndrome An academic movement which began in the early 1990s pointed toward the exponential growth in child sex abuse allegations as being the result of people recalling false memories.
  • Hypnotism Hypnotism was a significant area of government research in the twentieth century, particularly in CIA MKUltra experiments exploring induced amnesia, personality alteration, and the creation of unwitting operatives through hypnotic suggestion.
  • LSD Lysergic acid diethylamide, first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938 and accidentally ingested in 1943, which became the centerpiece of CIA behavioral control research from 1951 onward and spread from classified government programs into the American counterculture.
  • Mind Control Mind control as a field of intelligence research emerged from the CIA program MKUltra, which sought to discover effective methods of modifying human behavior to create brainwashed operatives.
  • Multiple Personality Disorder Multiple personality disorder functioned as the clinical term for what later became known as dissociative identity disorder, describing a condition in which an individual develops distinct alternative personalities, often as a result of severe or...
  • Personality Assessment System Personality classification method developed by CIA psychologist John Gittinger using Wechsler intelligence test subtests to predict individual behavior, applied widely in CIA operations worldwide to assess recruitment targets and agents.
  • Psilocybin Psychoactive compound isolated by Albert Hofmann at Sandoz in 1958 from the Psilocybe mushroom, which attracted CIA interest as an MKULTRA research subject alongside LSD.
  • Sensory Deprivation A technique placing subjects in environments stripped of sensory input, used by D. Ewen Cameron as part of depatterning, studied by the CIA as an interrogation tool, and researched by Donald Hebb, Maitland Baldwin, and John Lilly.

Research Methodology 7

Peek: Analytical Overlay · Associative Remote Viewing · Coordinate Remote Viewing…

  • Analytical Overlay Analytical Overlay refers to the conscious or unconscious imposition of a remote viewer's existing knowledge, beliefs, or biases onto their psychic perceptions, potentially distorting the accuracy of the data.
  • Associative Remote Viewing Associative Remote Viewing (ARV) is a precognitive Remote Viewing technique where objects or geographic locations are used as surrogates for abstract data, such as numbers or letters, which are generally difficult to remote-view directly.
  • Coordinate Remote Viewing Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) is a specific methodology of Remote Viewing that uses geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to direct a psychic's perception to a target.
  • Extended Remote Viewing Extended Remote Viewing (ERV) refers to deeper altered-state methods of Remote Viewing, often favored by the STARGATE PROJECT unit at Fort Meade.
  • Outbound Remote Viewing Outbound Remote Viewing is a Remote Viewing methodology where an 'outbound' experimenter visits a target site while the psychic, typically back at a laboratory, attempts to perceive and describe the experimenter's surroundings.
  • Outbounder-Beacon Experiment The Outbounder-Beacon Experiment was a Remote Viewing protocol developed by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute for the Central Intelligence Agency's psychic research program.
  • Psychotronic Research Psychotronic Research was the Eastern European pseudo-technical term for Psi research, particularly focusing on the interaction between human psychology and electronics.

Scientific Theory & Technology 16

Peek: Animate Physics · BlackNet · Critical Mass…

  • Animate Physics Animate physics is a term describing the study of physical phenomena in living organisms - particularly consciousness and psi abilities - contrasted with inanimate physics governing non-living matter, used in the Soviet and American parapsychology research context.
  • BlackNet BlackNet was Timothy May's 1993 thought experiment for an anonymous information market built on public-key encryption, remailers, message pools, and digital cash, circulated on the cypherpunks list as a working precursor to dark markets and anonymous-leak platforms.
  • Critical Mass Critical mass is the minimum amount of fissile material required for a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, first calculated for uranium by French physicist Francis Perrin in 1939 and central to both nuclear weapons design and proliferation intelligence.
  • Cybernetics Cybernetics is the postwar science of control and communication in animals and machines, founded by Norbert Wiener and developed at the Macy Conferences, which diffused into computing, systems theory, artificial intelligence, and the Californian counterculture.
  • Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Waves Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves are 3-300 Hz electromagnetic signals whose ability to penetrate water made them the primary U.S. Navy communication channel for submerged nuclear submarines and a research focus in Soviet psychotronic weapons programs.
  • Faraday Cage A Faraday cage is an electromagnetic shielding enclosure invented by Michael Faraday in 1836, used in parapsychology research to test whether psychic phenomena could be blocked by shielding subjects from external electromagnetic signals.
  • Hashcash Hashcash is the 1997 proof-of-work scheme that Adam Back devised to price email and deter spam by forcing a sender to compute a partial hash collision, and which the 2008 Bitcoin white paper cited as the model for the proof-of-work that secures the network and issues new coins.
  • Kirlian Photography Kirlian Photography is a technique for capturing images of objects placed on a photographic plate connected to a high-voltage source, producing a glow or aura around the object.
  • Nuclear Fission Nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller, lighter nuclei, often producing gamma photons, and releasing a very large amount of energy.
  • Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy is the email-encryption software Phil Zimmermann released for free in 1991, whose international spread triggered a three-year US criminal investigation that treated strong cryptography as a munition and that the cypherpunks made a central front of the crypto wars.
  • Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous author of the 2008 Bitcoin white paper and the developer who launched the network in January 2009, mined roughly 1.1 million bitcoin that have never moved, and stopped public communication in 2011.
  • Tachyon A tachyon is a hypothetical subatomic particle that travels faster than light, not forbidden by quantum physics, and invoked in fringe physics contexts including some parapsychology research as a proposed mechanism for precognition.
  • Taurus I Taurus I was a five-man research submersible capable of 1,000-foot depths used in the 1977 Project Deep Quest psychic experiment to test whether remote viewing could locate an underwater shipwreck.
  • The Five Observables The Five Observables are a set of key performance characteristics identified by the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program to categorize the behavior of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
  • Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is the official designation used by the U.S. government to refer to objects or phenomena in the atmosphere, in space, or underwater that cannot be immediately identified.
  • Zener Cards Zener Cards are a deck of five cards, each bearing a distinct symbol (a circle, square, wavy lines, cross, and star).