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63 programs across 8 categories. Categories of central interest are expanded; click any heading to expand or collapse.

Crime Investigation 1

Peek: Operation Framework

  • Operation Framework Joint Scotland Yard and Dutch investigation (1992-1993) into suspected snuff pornography produced by British nationals operating in Amsterdam's boy brothels.

Intelligence Operation 49

Peek: Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program · Alliance for Progress · CHAOS Program…

  • Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was a clandestine Pentagon program that investigated Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
  • Alliance for Progress The Alliance for Progress was Kennedy's 1961 foreign aid and development program for Latin America, promising $20 billion over ten years for social reform and economic development, but largely captured in implementation by the military-counterinsurgency apparatus and business interests.
  • CHAOS Program The CHAOS Program was a CIA domestic surveillance operation that purchased Washington D.C. real estate as cover for monitoring domestic political activities, distinct from but related to Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS).
  • Chieu Hoi A South Vietnamese government defection program running throughout the Vietnam War that offered amnesty to Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers who surrendered, and became the primary distribution channel for US psychological operations leaflets and loudspeaker broadcasts.
  • COINTELPRO COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a covert FBI domestic operations program (1956-1971) targeting political organizations through infiltration, psychological warfare, fabricated mail, wrongful prosecution, and coordination with local law enforcement, exposed by the 1971 Media FBI office break-in.
  • Delta Project The Delta Project was the operational name for John David Norman's child trafficking and prostitution network, also referred to as the Odyssey Network.
  • ECHELON ECHELON was the code name for the global signals intelligence collection and analysis network operated by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand); its existence was publicly confirmed through European Parliament investigations in the late 1990s, revealing a mass surveillance architecture that intercepted civilian telephone, fax, and data communications worldwide.
  • HTLINGUAL HTLINGUAL was the CIA's covert mail-opening program that operated from 1952 to 1973, intercepting and photographing approximately 215,000 pieces of first-class mail between the United States and the Soviet Union at the New York international mail facility without judicial authorization, in violation of federal postal statutes.
  • KK MOUNTAIN KK MOUNTAIN was the CIA code-name for its Cold War financial subsidy program providing annual cash payments to Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service.
  • Legacy Program The Legacy Program is the name given to a deeply hidden, decades-long U.S. government and private contractor effort to retrieve and reverse-engineer technology from crashed or landed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) of non-human origin.
  • Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was the top-secret U.S.-British-Canadian research program (1942-1946) that developed the first nuclear weapons under J. Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos and other facilities, culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan was the U.S. economic aid program of 1948-1952 that provided $13 billion to rebuild Western European economies devastated by World War II, which George Kennan viewed as the correct application of his containment doctrine, and which the Soviet Union refused - deepening the division of Europe that defined the Cold War.
  • MKNAOMI Joint CIA-Army program under which the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick produced biological and chemical weapons for covert CIA operations, including the toxins Sidney Gottlieb delivered to kill Patrice Lumumba.
  • MKSEARCH The CIA behavioral control program that succeeded MKULTRA in 1964 under Richard Helms, retaining the most sensitive chemical and biological development activities until Gottlieb terminated it in June 1972.
  • Operation AJAX Operation AJAX was the CIA's code name for the August 1953 covert operation that overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, restoring the Shah to full power in collaboration with British MI6 (Operation Boot), and establishing the direct precedent for CIA-backed coups that shaped Cold War policy and Iran's trajectory toward the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
  • Operation Arundel The investigation into Jonathan King and Chris Denning in the early 2000s led to Operation Arundel, into a suspected pedophile ring of BBC celebrities in the 1970s and 1980s who allegedly procured boys and girls from an underage nightclub called the...
  • Operation Big Spender FBI sting operation that exposed widespread corruption within the LASD Major Violators squads, resulting in the conviction of multiple narcotics detectives and nearly exposing the CIA-Contra drug connection.
  • Operation Brother Sam The US naval task force secretly dispatched to Brazilian waters in April 1964 to support the military coup deposing President Joao Goulart, representing the operational culmination of a US covert destabilization program coordinated by the CIA, State Department, and Rockefeller family networks.
  • Operation CASTIGATE Joint CIA-ARTICHOKE operation in Frankfurt, Germany in 1952 where G. Richard Wendt's truth drug formula was tested on suspected double agents and proved a complete failure.
  • Operation CHAOS Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) was a CIA domestic counterintelligence program (August 1967-March 1974) that infiltrated antiwar and counterculture organizations, maintaining files on approximately 7,200 Americans and a 300,000-name index before exposure by the Church Committee.
  • Operation Condor Operation Condor was a CIA-facilitated transnational program of political repression, intelligence sharing, and assassination coordinated among six South American military dictatorships from November 1975, tracking and killing an estimated 60,000 people including opponents who had fled across borders.
  • Operation DERBY HAT Joint CIA-Army operation in which LSD was administered to unwitting subjects during overseas interrogations in the early 1960s, disclosed by Sidney Gottlieb in his October 1975 Church Committee testimony.
  • Operation Fernbridge Operation Fernbridge was launched by the Metropolitan Police in February 2013 as a full criminal investigation into allegations that prominent people, including politicians, abused boys at the Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London during the...
  • Operation Gladio Operation Gladio was the Italian component of a NATO-sponsored network of secret stay-behind armies established across Western Europe by the CIA and British intelligence after World War II to conduct resistance and sabotage operations in the event of a Soviet invasion, whose members in Italy were linked to the right-wing terrorist bombings of the 'strategy of tension' from the late 1960s through the 1980s, exposed publicly by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in October 1990.
  • Operation Gold Operation Gold was a 1955-1956 CIA-MI6 joint operation that tunneled beneath the Berlin sector boundary to tap Soviet military cables, producing eleven months of signals intelligence before a staged Soviet discovery - the tunnel having been betrayed before construction by MI6 officer and KGB agent George Blake.
  • Operation Midland Operation Midland was a Scotland Yard investigation launched in November 2014 focusing on cold case files related to two child murders from 1979 and 1981 with potential connections to the Elm Guest House.
  • Operation Midnight Climax Operation Midnight Climax was the CIA's MKULTRA subprogram (1955-1963) in which Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent George Hunter White operated safe houses in San Francisco and New York City where unwitting men were dosed with LSD by CIA-recruited prostitutes while CIA observers watched through one-way mirrors.
  • Operation Mongoose Operation Mongoose was the Kennedy administration's post-Bay of Pigs covert action program against Cuba (November 1961 to late 1962), directed by Edward Lansdale under Robert Kennedy's Special Group (Augmented) oversight, run operationally by William Harvey at the CIA's JM/WAVE Miami station, and suspended following the Cuban Missile Crisis after Harvey unilaterally sent teams into Cuba during the crisis.
  • Operation Orchid Operation Orchid was a Scotland Yard investigation into Sidney Cooke and his gang of pedophiles conducted during the 1980s.
  • Operation Othello Operation Othello was the Belgian police investigation into Marc Dutroux's auto theft ring, which ran parallel to the Dutroux kidnapping investigation.
  • Operation Paperclip Operation Paperclip was the postwar U.S. program that recruited over 1,600 German and Austrian scientists from the defeated Third Reich, falsifying Nazi party records to enable their employment, with key recruits Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph later directing major NASA programs.
  • Operation PBSUCCESS Operation PBSUCCESS was the CIA's June 1954 covert operation that overthrew Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz, installing the pro-American Castillo Armas government, establishing the template for subsequent CIA-backed regime change operations, and drawing lessons about covert action that contributed directly to the Bay of Pigs disaster seven years later.
  • Operation Ravine Operation Ravine was a Surrey Police investigation launched in the mid-2010s following a review of previous inquiries into historical child sexual abuse at the Walton Hop Disco, a popular teenage nightclub in Walton-on-Thames that operated from 1958...
  • Operation THIRD CHANCE Joint CIA-Army operation in which LSD was administered to unwitting subjects during interrogations in Europe in 1961, including a Black Army soldier, James Thornwell, who was falsely accused of theft and subjected to prolonged drug-induced psychological terror.
  • Operation Tintinnabulation A US Army psychological operations campaign conducted in Vietnam using aircraft-mounted loudspeakers and noisemakers at night to erode Viet Cong morale and induce surrenders under the Chieu Hoi program, which reportedly doubled monthly defections.
  • Phoenix Program The Phoenix Program was the CIA-organized counterinsurgency targeting program in Vietnam (1968-1972) that used intelligence-driven identification and systematic neutralization - through capture, defection, or killing - of Viet Cong political and military infrastructure, resulting in the reported neutralization of 81,740 people including approximately 26,369 killed, under the direction of William Colby and later Ted Shackley.
  • Point Four Program President Truman's Point Four Program (1949) was the first U.S. foreign technical assistance program aimed at the developing world, providing the institutional template that Nelson Rockefeller later built on in his International Development Advisory Board proposals.
  • Project 8200 Project 8200 is the subject of a 2024 book by former STARGATE remote viewer Frederick Atwater claiming the existence of classified UAP base locations identified through remote viewing operations.
  • Project Agile An ARPA-sponsored series of military science studies in Asia during the Vietnam era that included, among other programs, a Battelle Memorial Institute study developing olfactory weapons calibrated to trigger fear responses in specific ethnic populations.
  • Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke Project Bluebird (1950-1951) and its successor Project Artichoke (1951-1956) were the CIA's classified behavioral research programs that pioneered LSD interrogation experiments on prisoners and foreign nationals, forming the direct institutional predecessor to Project MKULTRA.
  • Project CHATTER U.S. Navy program established in 1947 to develop a truth drug for interrogation, which ran in parallel with early CIA efforts and ended following the Wendt fiasco in 1952.
  • Project Exploit USSR A 1962 five-volume classified typescript that analyzed psychological vulnerabilities in the Soviet Union for use in psychological operations, comprising an orientation and summary volume, a component social systems analysis, and a synthesis and overview.
  • Project MERRIMAC Project MERRIMAC was a CIA Office of Security program (approximately 1967-1974) that infiltrated antiwar and civil rights organizations in Washington D.C., feeding intelligence to Operation CHAOS through the CACTUS pipeline before exposure by Seymour Hersh and the Church Committee.
  • Project MKUltra Project MKUltra was the CIA's classified behavioral modification program (1953-1973) directed by Sidney Gottlieb, which administered LSD and other methods to unconsenting subjects across approximately 150 subprojects before its records were destroyed in January 1973 and partially reconstructed from misfiled documents in 1977.
  • Project Pandora Project Pandora was a classified U.S. research program initiated by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA) in response to the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union.
  • Project Sahara Project Sahara was the code name for LAPD detective Guzzetta's investigation into the Blandón cocaine network, which uncovered the Contra drug connection before being shut down.
  • UKUSA Agreement The UKUSA Agreement (1946) is the signals intelligence treaty between the United States, United Kingdom, and later Australia, Canada, and New Zealand that established the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance; it is the legal and institutional backbone of ECHELON and all subsequent mass surveillance architectures documented in this vault.
  • Wandering Souls A US psychological operations tactic used in Vietnam by the 1st Infantry Division in which helicopters overflew villages between midnight and 6 a.m. broadcasting eerie recordings representing the souls of unburied dead Viet Cong soldiers, designed to exploit Vietnamese superstitions about the fate of those killed in battle far from home.
  • ZR RIFLE ZR/RIFLE was the CIA's covert executive action (assassination) planning program, established around 1960 under William Harvey, designed to develop a general capability to kill foreign leaders, applied primarily against Fidel Castro through the organized crime network involving Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, and exposed by the Church Committee in 1975 as a program concealed from the Warren Commission.

Law Enforcement Operation 1

Peek: Operation Yewtree

  • Operation Yewtree Operation Yewtree was a Metropolitan Police investigation launched in October 2012 following the death of BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, which uncovered systemic child sexual abuse by BBC figures and connections to international trafficking networks.

Nuclear Scientists & Programs 1

Peek: Atoms for Peace

  • Atoms for Peace Atoms for Peace was Eisenhower's 1953 initiative to promote civilian nuclear energy by sharing technology and materials internationally, which inadvertently accelerated nuclear proliferation including Israel's Dimona program.

PSI Research Program 1

Peek: STARGATE PROJECT

  • STARGATE PROJECT STARGATE PROJECT was the umbrella designation for the U.S. Army and DIA remote viewing programs at Fort Meade, Maryland (1977-1995), progressing through code names Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and STAR GATE before termination following the 1995 American Institutes for Research evaluation.

Programs & Projects 3

Peek: Project Camelot · Project Monarch · SERE

  • Project Camelot A 1964 US Army project run through SORO at American University under contract ARO-7 and a budget Secretary of State Rusk described as 'more than $4,000,000' that attempted to build a predictive social science model for revolution in developing countries; cancelled in July 1965 after its exposure by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung provoked a Chilean diplomatic protest, congressional hearings, and a permanent rupture between the military and academic social science communities.
  • Project Monarch An alleged offshoot of MKULTRA said to have used trauma-based programming to create multiple personalities in subjects for use as couriers, sex slaves, and operatives.
  • SERE A US military training program developed after the Korean War to prepare service members to resist coercive interrogation through simulated captivity, which became the template for 'enhanced interrogation' techniques after its methods were reverse-engineered for offensive use following September 11, 2001.

Psi Research Program 6

Peek: Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR · Great Skill Program · Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact…

  • Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR Controlled Offensive Behavior - USSR was a 1972 Defense Intelligence Agency report that assessed Soviet Union research into Parapsychology phenomena and its potential military applications.
  • Great Skill Program Great Skill Program (GS or GSP) is a secretive internal U.S. Army program to identify promising recruits and help to develop them into soldier spies.
  • Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact 'Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact' was a 1977 DIA report by Dale Graff assessing Soviet and Warsaw Pact research into psi phenomena including electromagnetic fields, quantum physics, and holography, which provided competitive justification for continued American government parapsychology investment.
  • Project Deep Quest Project Deep Quest was a unique psychic functioning experiment conducted in 1977, involving Remote Viewing to locate an underwater shipwreck from a submersible.
  • SCANATE SCANATE was the CIA's initial code name for its remote viewing research program at Stanford Research Institute, launched in 1972 following Hal Puthoff's contact with CIA officer Kit Green and running until the program transitioned to Army management as Gondola Wish in 1977.
  • The Nautilus (Telepathy Project) The Nautilus (Telepathy Project) refers to a fabricated 1960 French magazine story claiming the U.S. Navy had conducted successful telepathy experiments with the USS Nautilus submarine, a hoax that nonetheless alarmed Soviet and American military planners and accelerated government parapsychology funding.

Software Project 1

Peek: PROMIS

  • PROMIS PROMIS (Prosecutor's Management Information System) was a case management software developed by INSLAW beginning in 1971 that became the center of a major legal and intelligence scandal after the U.S. Justice Department allegedly stole the proprietary version and distributed it internationally with a hidden surveillance backdoor.