#Project
10 entries tagged Project.
Organizations (1)
- Tower Commission The Tower Commission was the 1986-1987 presidential commission chaired by former Senator John Tower that investigated the Iran-Contra Affair and produced the first public account of NSC staff involvement in the arms-for-hostages scheme.
Programs (9)
- 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.
- 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 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 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.
- 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 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 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 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.
- 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.