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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 (13)

  • Garrison Group Committee of six senior CIA officers that Richard Helms convened in September 1967 to manage the agency's response to Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw, who had been a source of its Domestic Contact Service.
  • 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 Army field test of LSD in interrogations in the Far East, August to November 1962, on seven foreign nationals suspected of narcotics dealing or intelligence work; one subject was left semicomatose.
  • Operation THIRD CHANCE Army field test of LSD on unwitting interrogation subjects in Europe from May to August 1961, including the Black soldier James Thornwell, falsely accused of theft.
  • Operation Tradewinds IRS intelligence operation run from Jacksonville from 1965 against American money in Bahamian banks, which used paid informants in violation of Bahamian law and was called off after the Castle Bank briefcase theft.
  • 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 Azorian CIA operation of 1969 to 1974 that built the Hughes Glomar Explorer under Howard Hughes's name to raise a sunken Soviet missile submarine, and gave its name to the refusal to confirm or deny.
  • 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 FUBELT CIA operation ordered by President Nixon on September 15, 1970, to provoke a military coup before Salvador Allende could take office, in the course of which the agency armed and paid officers plotting to kidnap General Rene Schneider.
  • 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.