Timeline
164 dated entries
2020s23 entries+
- Occurred · Event2026 Islamic Center of San Diego Shooting
On May 18, 2026, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez attacked the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing three people and leaving an accelerationist manifesto citing Atomwaffen Division, Terrorgram, and The Base; both…
- Began · EventOlney House Investigation
Philadelphia police and FBI investigation, opened in June 2026, into seven missing women linked by recovered video and photographs to the West Chew Avenue house of the late pornographer R.C. Horsch and his son Eugene.
- Occurred · Event2025 Antioch High School Shooting
Solomon Henderson (17) killed one student and wounded another at Antioch High School in Nashville on January 22, 2025, leaving a manifesto citing Maniac Murder Cult; police found no direct MKY coordination or…
- Began · Event2025 Kyiv SBU Assassination
The July 10, 2025 killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv was claimed by The Base's Ukrainian cell White Phoenix and separately attributed by Ukrainian authorities to FSB-directed Russian operatives, leaving…
- Occurred · EventCybertruck Trump Hotel Bombing
On January 1, 2025, active duty Army Special Operations soldier Matthew Livelsberger detonated an explosive-laden Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, injuring seven, leaving a…
- Occurred · EventNew Orleans Truck Attack
On January 1, 2025, Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring dozens; the FBI declared it an act of terrorism with ISIS connection.
- Began · EventNLRB Data Exfiltration
The NLRB data exfiltration was a 2025 incident in which Department of Government Efficiency engineers accessed National Labor Relations Board systems and exfiltrated large volumes of sensitive data on union…
- Began · EventProject Compass
Project Compass is a Europol-coordinated 28-country law enforcement operation against the Com network and its 764 subgroup, launched in January 2025, that by February 2026 had produced 30 arrests and identified 179…
- Occurred · Event2024 Abundant Life Christian School Shooting
On December 16, 2024, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin in an attack traced to radicalization through WatchPeopleDie and 764/Terrorgram-adjacent content.
- Occurred · Event2024 Eskisehir Mosque Stabbing
On August 12, 2024, Arda Küçükyetim stabbed five worshippers outside a mosque in Eskisehir, Turkey while livestreaming on Kick, in an attack confirmed as Terrorgram-inspired in U.S. and Canadian proceedings and…
- Occurred · EventFBI Seizes Largest Ever Explosive Cache
On December 30, 2024, the FBI raided Brad Kenneth Spafford's Isle of Wight County, Virginia farm and seized more than 150 homemade pipe bombs, a homemade mortar, a vest loaded with pipe bombs, HMTD explosive, and an…
- Began · EventPost-Terrorgram Accelerationist Platform Migration
Post-Terrorgram Accelerationist Platform Migration describes the documented shift in neo-Nazi accelerationist network infrastructure following Pavel Durov's arrest in August 2024 and the September 2024 Terrorgram…
- Began · EventUnited States v. Martin (4-25-cr-00190)
United States v. Martin, 4:25-cr-00190, is the first federal prosecution to charge a 764 Network member under a terrorism statute, using 18 U.S.C. § 2339A anchored to an 18 U.S.C. § 956(a) conspiracy to kill or maim…
- Occurred · Event2023 Baltimore Power Grid Conspiracy
In February 2023, AWD founder Brandon Russell and Sarah Beth Clendaniel were arrested for conspiring to simultaneously destroy five Baltimore Gas and Electric substations, resulting in 20-year and 18-year federal…
- Occurred · Event2023 Brazil Telegram Suspension Order
On April 26, 2023, Federal Judge Wellington Lopes da Silva of Espírito Santo ordered a nationwide suspension of Telegram and daily fines of approximately US$198,000 after the platform refused to produce subscriber…
- Occurred · Event2022 Aracruz School Shootings
On November 25, 2022, 16-year-old Gabriel Rodrigues Castiglioni attacked two schools in Aracruz, Brazil wearing AWD-associated symbols, killing four and wounding eleven in an attack attributed to Terrorgram…
- Occurred · Event2022 Bratislava LGBTQ+ Bar Shooting
On October 12, 2022, Juraj Krajčík killed two people at the Tepláreň LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava after Terrorgram mentorship by Pavol Beňadik, becoming the first attack attributed to Terrorgram's radicalization pipeline…
- Occurred · Event2022 Buffalo Supermarket Shooting
Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket on May 14, 2022, livestreaming on Twitch while citing Brenton Tarrant's manifesto, sentenced to consecutive life terms and named by Juraj Krajčík as his…
- Began · EventGovernment of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank2022–2023
The Virgin Islands' 2022 federal suit accusing JPMorgan of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking, heard by Judge Jed Rakoff with two victims' bank suits and settled in 2023 for 75 million dollars.
- Began · EventDoD Extremism Stand-Down (2021)
The DoD Extremism Stand-Down was a 60-day Department of Defense-wide initiative ordered by Secretary Austin in February 2021 following the January 6 Capitol attack, culminating in a December 2021 working group report…
- Occurred · EventOperation Bergon
Operation Bergon was a December 2021 joint operation between US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations and Brazilian federal authorities that executed 31 search warrants and four arrests…
- Began · EventUnited States v. Maxwell
Federal sex-trafficking prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell in the Southern District of New York, ending in a 2021 conviction and 20-year sentence, whose grand jury record was unsealed under the Epstein Files…
- Began · EventUnited States v. Shea et al. (2020)2020–2022
United States v. Shea et al. is the 2020 federal case in the Western District of Washington in which Atomwaffen Division members were charged with conspiring to threaten journalists and activists, and through which…
2010s14 entries+
- Began · Event2019 AWD Nuclear Congress
The 2019 AWD Nuclear Congress was an Atomwaffen Division leadership gathering in Las Vegas organized by FBI informant Joshua Caleb Sutter, notable for James Mason's first in-person appearance with AWD and for…
- Occurred · Event2019 Christchurch Mosque Shootings
On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques in a live-streamed attack, inspiring the founding of the Terrorgram Collective and becoming the most cited precedent event…
- Began · EventOperation Kristallnacht (The Base)
Operation Kristallnacht was a September 2019 coordinated campaign organized through The Base's online channels by Richard Tobin that directed members to vandalize synagogues across the United States, resulting in…
- Began · EventUnited States v. Epstein
Federal sex-trafficking prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein in Manhattan, indicted July 2019 and dismissed after his death in jail that August, whose sealed grand jury record was ordered released in December 2025.
- Began · Event2017 Gothenburg Neo-Nazi Bombings
A series of neo-Nazi bombings in Gothenburg, Sweden in January 2017, carried out by two Nordic Resistance Movement members who had received explosives training at the Russian Imperial Movement's Partizan camp in St.…
- Occurred · Event2017 Tampa Atomwaffen Murders
On May 19, 2017, AWD member Devon Arthurs killed two fellow members at a shared Tampa apartment, triggering the first national exposure of Atomwaffen Division and leading directly to founder Brandon Russell's first…
- Occurred · Event2015 Charleston Church Shooting
Dylann Roof killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015, received federal and state death sentences, and became the founding saint reference explicitly cited by Brenton Tarrant…
- Occurred · EventGIMBAL
Declassified UAP video captured by an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew showing an object rotating against the wind, released by the Pentagon in 2017.
- Began · EventGiuffre v. Maxwell
Virginia Giuffre's 2015 defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell in the Southern District of New York, settled in 2017, whose sealed discovery record was litigated for a decade and reached by a 2019 grand jury subpoena.
- Occurred · EventGoFast
Declassified UAP video captured by an F/A-18 Super Hornet crew showing an object moving at extreme speed low over the ocean, released by the Pentagon in 2017.
- Began · EventGamergate2014–2015
Gamergate was a loosely organized online harassment campaign that began in August 2014 on 4chan and 8chan under the pretext of 'ethics in video game journalism,' whose coordinated harassment tactics and propaganda…
- Began · ProgramOperation Midland2014–2016
Metropolitan Police investigation of 2014 to 2016 into Carl Beech's false allegations of a VIP abuse ring; it made no arrests and was condemned by the Henriques review for 43 errors.
- Began · ProgramOperation Fernbridge2013–2015
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…
- Began · ProgramOperation Yewtree
Metropolitan Police investigation opened in October 2012 after an ITV program accusing Jimmy Savile; its 2013 report recorded 214 crimes by him in 28 police areas between 1955 and 2009.
2000s5 entries+
- Began · EventDoe v. United States2008–2022
Crime Victims' Rights Act case filed in 2008 by Epstein victims over his secret non-prosecution agreement, which won a 2019 violation finding but no remedy, and failed 7-4 before the en banc Eleventh Circuit.
- Began · ProgramAdvanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program2007–2012
Defense Intelligence Agency program, formally AAWSAP, funded from fiscal 2008 with 22 million dollars at Harry Reid's direction and contracted to Robert Bigelow's BAASS, whose UFO and paranormal work AARO later reviewed.
- Began · EventEpstein non-prosecution agreement2007–2019
The September 24, 2007 agreement in which federal prosecutors in Miami dropped a drafted indictment of Jeffrey Epstein and immunized his co-conspirators in exchange for two state guilty pleas.
- Occurred · EventTic Tac
UAP encountered by the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in November 2004, captured on video and designated 'Tic Tac' for its shape, released by the Pentagon in 2017.
- Began · ProgramOperation 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…
1990s16 entries+
- Began · EventRolodex Investigation1997–1998
Dutch police inquiry (1997-1998) into a callboy service catering to Dutch justice officials, exposing connections between child trafficking networks and senior government figures.
- Began · EventDark Alliance
Dark Alliance was a three-part investigative series published by the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996, exposing links between CIA-backed Contra forces and the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
- Occurred · EventWhite Marches
Mass demonstrations in Belgium (October 1996) sparked by the politically motivated removal of investigating magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte from the Dutroux case.
- Occurred · EventX-Dossier
Files opened in 1996 on the testimony of the anonymous X witnesses in the Dutroux inquiry, whose investigators were removed in 1997 and whose related files were closed in April 1998.
- Began · Event1995 AIR evaluation of Star Gate
The CIA-commissioned 1995 review of the DIA's Star Gate remote-viewing program, delivered September 29, 1995, which found a statistically significant laboratory anomaly and no intelligence value, and recommended…
- Began · ProgramOperation Othello1995–1996
Charleroi gendarmerie observation operation against Marc Dutroux, requested on August 25, 1995, and declared negative by the gendarme René Michaux on January 9, 1996, while Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo were in…
- Began · Event1995 transfer of Star Gate to the CIA1994–1995
The 1995 Congressionally directed transfer of the DIA's Star Gate remote-viewing program to the CIA, which the CIA used to review, declassify and close it.
- Began · EventHIK Investigation1994–1995
Dutch police investigation launched in 1994 into child trafficking networks centered on Lothar Glandorf's boy brothels in Rotterdam, revealing connections to senior Dutch government officials.
- Began · EventHIK Report1994–1995
Official report from the Dutch HIK investigation into the Manuel Schadwald disappearance and the Rotterdam child trafficking network, revealing a government cover-up.
- Began · EventThree Rivers District Council v Bank of England1993–2006
Twelve-year English lawsuit by BCCI's liquidators and depositors accusing the Bank of England of misfeasance in public office over its supervision of BCCI, abandoned on the 256th day of trial in November 2005.
- Began · EventBCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report
December 1992 report by Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown on BCCI, documenting its fraud, money laundering, bribery and secret ownership of US banks, and criticizing the Justice Department, regulators and the CIA.
- Occurred · EventBingham Report
Lord Justice Bingham's 1992 inquiry into British supervision of BCCI, which cleared the Treasury, criticized the Bank of England as slow and overreliant on Luxembourg, and upheld its closure of the bank.
- Began · ProgramOperation Framework1992–1993
Joint Scotland Yard and Dutch investigation (1992-1993) into suspected snuff pornography produced by British nationals operating in Amsterdam's boy brothels.
- Began · EventScott Inquiry1992–1996
The Scott Inquiry (formally the Inquiry into the Export of Defence Equipment and Dual-Use Goods to Iraq and Related Prosecutions) was a British judicial inquiry conducted 1992-1996 by Lord Justice Richard Scott,…
- Occurred · EventSandstorm Report
Price Waterhouse's draft Section 41 report to the Bank of England of June 22, 1991, code-named Sandstorm, which found widespread fraud at BCCI and preceded the bank's closure on July 5, 1991.
- Began · EventProject Abbreviation1990–2000
RCMP national security inquiry of 1999 and 2000, run by Sean McDade, into whether a trap-doored PROMIS ran in Canadian agencies; the RCMP said in 2024 that no records exist.
1980s23 entries+
- Began · ProgramOperation 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.
- Began · ProgramOperation Orchid1989–1992
Operation Orchid was a Scotland Yard investigation into Sidney Cooke and his gang of pedophiles conducted during the 1980s.
- Began · EventFranklin Credit Union Scandal1988–1994
The Franklin Credit Union Scandal began with the November 1988 collapse of Lawrence King Jr.'s Omaha credit union with $39.4 million missing, accompanied by allegations of a child prostitution network with Washington…
- Began · EventPan Am Flight 103
1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, connecting international terrorism to drug trafficking and intelligence operations.
- Began · EventProject Babylon
Iraqi program to build Gerald Bull's 131-foot gun, exposed when British customs seized its barrel sections at Teesport on April 12, 1990, three weeks after Bull was shot dead in Brussels.
- Began · EventArms-to-Iraq1987–1996
The Arms-to-Iraq affair was the British corollary to the same illicit Iraq weapons procurement networks examined in the Iran-Contra and BNL scandal investigations: British companies, licensed by the government,…
- Began · EventOperation C-Chase1986–1988
United States Customs undercover money laundering operation of 1986 to 1988, run by agent Robert Mazur as 'Robert Musella,' that ended in the arrest of BCCI officers and the bank's 1990 Tampa conviction.
- Began · ProgramProject Eagle
Multi-million-dollar Justice Department procurement of the mid-1980s to automate its litigating divisions, which INSLAW alleged was meant to carry PROMIS for companies tied to Earl Brian.
- Began · ProgramSun Streak1986–1990
The DIA's special access program for the Fort Meade remote-viewing unit from 1986 to 1990, twelve billets working 192 projects by 1989, judged by a 1990 counternarcotics test to give good data in about a third of cases.
- Began · EventAchille Lauro
1985 cruise ship attack described as an Israeli black propaganda operation designed to portray Palestinians as terrorists.
- Began · EventBNL Scandal1985–1993
Discovery in 1989 that the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro had lent Iraq five billion dollars off its books, and a prosecution that Congress and the trial judge said shielded higher officials.
- Began · EventHashemi Sting1985–1986
The Hashemi Sting was a 1986 U.S. Customs undercover operation against arms sales to Iran, prosecuted by Rudolph Giuliani's Southern District of New York office; its informant Cyrus Hashemi died in London that year.
- Began · EventIran-Contra Affair1985–1987
Political scandal involving the secret sale of arms to Iran to fund the Nicaraguan Contras in violation of the Boland Amendment, leading to indictments of multiple CIA and NSC officials.
- Began · ProgramCommodity Credit Corporation Iraq Program1983–1990
Agriculture Department credit guarantees that backed about five billion dollars of Iraqi purchases from 1983 to 1990, financed largely through Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's Atlanta branch, and continued after the…
- Began · EventFrogman Case
Largest cocaine bust in West Coast history at the time (January 1983), which exposed direct links between Contra drug traffickers in San Francisco and the CIA, connections suppressed through direct CIA intervention.
- Occurred · EventQueen's Accident
Collision on Route 132 in Mariposa County on March 5, 1983, between a sheriff's patrol car and a Secret Service convoy assigned to Queen Elizabeth's Yosemite visit, killing three agents.
- Began · EventBoland Amendment1982–1984
Series of congressional amendments prohibiting U.S. funding for Contra military operations, widely circumvented by the Reagan administration and the CIA.
- Began · ProgramCenter Lane1982–1985
INSCOM's remote-viewing unit from October 1982 to March 1985, kept alive with security funds after Congress cut Grill Flame, run as a special access program under Stubblebine, and handed to the DIA as Sun Streak.
- Began · EventPROMIS Software Scandal1982–1998
The INSLAW Affair was a legal and political scandal over allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice stole the PROMIS case management software from its developer and distributed it internationally with a…
- Began · EventSabra and Shatila massacres
September 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in Beirut by Lebanese Christian Phalangists, facilitated by Israeli forces under Defense Minister Ariel Sharon.
- Began · EventOsirak bombing
1981 Israeli air strike on the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak near Baghdad, carried out with U.S.-supplied F-16s and condemned internationally.
- Began · EventBologna railway station bombing
The Bologna railway station bombing of August 2, 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 in Italy's deadliest postwar terrorist attack, was carried out by the neofascist Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari…
- Began · EventOctober Surprise1980–1981
The October Surprise allegation holds that William J. Casey and other figures in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign secretly negotiated with Iranian representatives to delay the release of 52 American…
1970s30 entries+
- Began · EventExtraordinary Powers Craze1979–1989
The Extraordinary Powers Craze (1979-1989) was a period of officially sanctioned Chinese research into paranormal abilities sparked by the 1979 Tang Yu case and physicist Qian Xuesen's endorsement, involving military…
- Began · ProgramFirst Earth Battalion
A 1979 concept paper by Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon, issued through TRADOC's Task Force Delta at Fort Monroe, proposing an Army battalion of warrior monks drawn from the human potential movement.
- Began · EventGrill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee1979–1980
An eight-member Army review under Manfred Gale, reporting in December 1979, which found remote viewing unproved and its programs poorly documented, while a majority of five allowed INSCOM's operational work to…
- Occurred · EventIranian Revolution
1979 popular uprising that overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing an Islamic republic and fundamentally reshaping Middle Eastern geopolitics.
- Began · EventCamp David summit
The Camp David Accords were the September 1978 framework agreements produced by thirteen days of secret negotiations between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, facilitated by…
- Occurred · EventColares Incidents
Wave of UAP encounters in 1977 on the island of Colares, Brazil, where residents reported being attacked by beams of radiation from unknown craft.
- Dated · ProgramParaphysics 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…
- Dated · ProgramProject 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.
- Began · ProgramStargate Project1977–1995
Army, DIA, and CIA remote-viewing programs of 1972 to 1995, run under the names SCANATE, Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and Star Gate, closed after the 1995 AIR evaluation.
- Began · EventCubana Flight 455 bombing
Bombing of a Cubana DC-8 off Barbados on October 6, 1976, killing 73, planned in Caracas by Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch, and a DISIP officer, after a CIA source heard Posada promise it.
- Occurred · EventEntebbe hijacking
1976 hijacking of an Air France jet by the Baader-Meinhof Group, ended by a daring Israeli commando rescue raid at Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
- Began · EventHSCA1976–1979
The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA, 1976-1979) was the second major U.S. government inquiry into the Kennedy assassination, concluding that a 'probable conspiracy' existed based on acoustic evidence…
- Began · EventLockheed bribe scandal
1976 scandal involving bribes paid by Lockheed Aircraft Company to Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres and other international figures.
- Began · EventOakland County Child Killer1976–1977
Unsolved murders of four children in Oakland County, Michigan (1976-1977) that investigators steered away from leads pointing to organized pedophile rings.
- Began · EventPhillip Paske & The Delta Project1976–1978
Investigation into John David Norman's Delta Project, a boy trafficking scheme operated from inside Cook County Jail using jail printing facilities to distribute materials.
- Began · EventChurch Committee1975–1976
The Church Committee (1975-1976) was the Senate investigation that documented systematic CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS abuses including Operation CHAOS, COINTELPRO, assassination plots, and HTLINGUAL illegal mail opening,…
- Began · ProgramOperation Condor
Arrangement of six South American military governments from November 1975, founded by DINA's Manuel Contreras, for exchanging intelligence on exiles and killing them abroad, of which Washington had notice before the…
- Began · EventCIA Family Jewels
The CIA 'Family Jewels' was a 693-page internal compilation of potentially illegal activities assembled in May 1973 at Director James Schlesinger's direction, partly declassified in 2007, documenting assassination…
- Began · EventYom Kippur War
1973 Arab-Israeli War that began with coordinated Egyptian and Syrian attacks, leading to a nuclear alert and reshaping regional power dynamics.
- Dated · ProgramControlled 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.
- Began · EventMunich Olympic Massacre
The Munich Olympic Massacre (September 5-6, 1972) was the Black September seizure of eleven Israeli Olympic team members, all of whom died in a failed West German rescue at Fürstenfeldbruck, leading directly to…
- Began · EventPeteano bombing
The Peteano bombing of May 31, 1972, in which three Carabinieri were killed by a booby-trapped Fiat 500 near Gorizia, was carried out by Ordine Nuovo member Vincenzo Vinciguerra, whose subsequent confessions in 1984…
- Began · ProgramSCANATE1972–1977
The CIA-funded SRI remote-viewing research of 1972 to 1975, named for scanning by coordinate, whose West Virginia and Urals readings SRI reported as verified, whose Semipalatinsk test the sponsor's analysts judged…
- Began · EventWatergate1972–1974
Watergate was the 1972 to 1974 political scandal, beginning with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee by operatives tied to the Nixon reelection campaign and the CIA, that culminated in President Nixon's…
- Began · EventMedia FBI Office Break-In
The Media, Pennsylvania FBI office break-in on March 8, 1971, by the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI removed approximately 1,000 documents whose distribution to the press exposed COINTELPRO and triggered…
- Began · ProgramPROMIS
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…
- Began · EventSnuff Film
A snuff film is a film produced for the express purpose of capturing a live murder on camera, made to please an audience.
- Began · EventDean Corll Murders1970–1973
Mass murder of 28 young men in Houston, Texas (1970-1973) that uncovered connections to organized child trafficking and pornography networks with apparent institutional protection.
- Began · EventGolpe Borghese
The Golpe Borghese was a fascist coup attempt in Italy on the night of December 7-8, 1970, organized by Prince Junio Valerio Borghese and the Fronte Nazionale, involving several hundred armed men who seized the…
- Began · ProgramProject 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…
1960s26 entries+
- Began · EventPiazza Fontana bombing
The Piazza Fontana bombing of December 12, 1969, in which a bomb at the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Milan killed 17 people and wounded 88, was the opening act of Italy's strategy of tension and was ultimately…
- Began · ProgramProject Azorian1969–1975
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.
- Occurred · EventNuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy,…
- Began · ProgramPhoenix Program1968–1972
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…
- Began · ProgramGarrison 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.
- Began · ProgramOperation CHAOS1967–1974
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…
- Began · ProgramProject MERRIMAC1967–1974
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…
- Began · ProgramProject RESISTANCE1967–1973
CIA Office of Security program of 1967 to 1973 that began as protection for campus recruiters and grew into an index of 12,000 to 16,000 names drawn from campus officials, police, and the underground press.
- Began · EventSix-Day War
1967 conflict in which Israel launched a preemptive strike against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, capturing the Sinai, Gaza, West Bank, and Golan Heights.
- Began · EventUSS Liberty Incident
1967 attack on the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War, killing 34 crew members and sparking enduring controversy.
- Began · EventFreedom of Information Act
The Freedom of Information Act was used by Gary Webb to obtain government documents that revealed the CIA and DEA's knowledge of Contra-connected drug trafficking.
- Began · ProgramOperation Tradewinds1965–1975
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.
- Began · ProgramProject 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…
- Began · EventGulf of Tonkin Incident
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident refers to the August 2 and 4, 1964 incidents in which a genuine North Vietnamese attack on the USS Maddox was followed by a second 'attack' on August 4 that almost certainly never…
- Occurred · EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty
The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) was signed in Moscow by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, prohibiting nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater.
- Began · EventWarren Commission1963–1964
The Warren Commission was the official body appointed by President Johnson in November 1963 to investigate the Kennedy assassination, whose September 1964 report concluded Oswald acted alone - a finding undermined by…
- Began · EventCuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis (October 16-28, 1962) was a thirteen-day nuclear confrontation resolved when the Soviet Union agreed to remove missiles from Cuba in exchange for an American non-invasion pledge and a secret…
- Began · ProgramOperation 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.
- Began · EventOperation NORTHWOODS
Operation NORTHWOODS was a March 13, 1962 document signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposing a series of staged false-flag attacks against American citizens and military assets that could be blamed on Cuba to…
- Began · EventBay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion was the CIA's failed April 17-19, 1961 covert operation deploying approximately 1,400 Cuban exiles of Brigade 2506 against Fidel Castro, collapsing after Kennedy cancelled the follow-up air…
- Began · EventBerlin Wall1961–1989
The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was the fortified barrier erected by East Germany on August 13, 1961, to halt mass emigration, killing an estimated 140 people who attempted to cross before it fell on November 9,…
- Began · ProgramOperation Mongoose1961–1962
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)…
- Occurred · EventParis Summit Meeting
1960 summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev that collapsed after the U-2 Incident, derailing a potential US-Soviet detente.
- Dated · ProgramThe 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…
- Began · EventU-2 Incident
1960 shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, causing a major diplomatic crisis and collapse of the Paris Summit.
- Began · ProgramZR RIFLE1960–1963
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…
1950s20 entries+
- Began · Event1958 C-118 shootdown over Azerbaijan
Air Force C-118 carrying CIA cargo forced down by Soviet MiG-17s over Azerbaijan on June 27, 1958; its nine crew, two well informed on agency work, were questioned at Baku and freed after ten days.
- Began · ProgramCOINTELPRO1956–1971
COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a covert FBI domestic operations program (1956-1971) targeting political organizations through infiltration, psychological warfare, fabricated mail, wrongful prosecution,…
- Began · EventHungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide uprising against Soviet-backed communist rule that began October 23, 1956, was crushed by Soviet military intervention on November 4, and whose failure - despite…
- Began · EventMoscow Signal1956–1976
Microwave beam directed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by the Soviet Union (1956-1976), suspected of being an electromagnetic weapon that spurred U.S. research into psychotronics.
- Began · ProgramOperation Gladio1956–1990
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…
- Began · EventSuez Crisis
1956 invasion of Egypt by Israel, France, and Britain to regain control of the Suez Canal, ended by Soviet nuclear ultimatum and U.S. pressure.
- Began · EventBandung Conference
1955 meeting of Asian and African states in Indonesia that established the Non-Aligned Movement, attended by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and shaping Cold War diplomacy.
- Occurred · EventGeneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
1955 international scientific conference in Geneva with 1,500 delegates from 70 nations, marking the first major open exchange of nuclear knowledge.
- Occurred · EventMontgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the 381-day campaign (December 5, 1955 - December 21, 1956) in which the Black community of Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted the city's segregated bus system following Rosa Parks' arrest,…
- Began · ProgramOperation Midnight Climax1955–1963
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…
- Began · EventDienbienphu
Decisive 1954 battle in the First Indochina War where the Viet Minh defeated French colonial forces, ending French rule in Indochina.
- Began · EventLavon Affair
Covert 1954 Israeli operation in Egypt involving bombings of American, British, and Egyptian targets designed to damage Western-Egyptian relations.
- Began · ProgramOperation Gold1954–1956
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…
- Began · ProgramOperation 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…
- Began · ProgramAtoms 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…
- Began · ProgramOperation 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…
- Began · ProgramProject MKUltra1953–1973
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…
- Began · ProgramHTLINGUAL1952–1973
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…
- Began · EventKorean War1950–1953
1950-1953 conflict between North and South Korea that involved U.S. intelligence programs and connections to later covert operations in Southeast Asia.
- Began · ProgramProject Bluebird and Project Artichoke1950–1956
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,…
1940s6 entries+
- Began · EventArab-Israeli War (1948-1949)1948–1949
Conflict following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and declaration of the State of Israel, resulting in Israeli victory and the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem.
- Began · ProgramMarshall Plan1948–1952
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…
- Began · ProgramGreat 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.
- Occurred · EventRoswell Incident
Alleged crash of a UAP in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, considered the foundational event of modern UFO lore and government secrecy.
- Began · ProgramOperation Paperclip1945–1959
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…
- Began · ProgramManhattan Project1942–1947
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…
1930s1 entry+
- Began · EventBusiness Plot1933–1934
1933 alleged conspiracy by Wall Street financiers including the DuPont family to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist dictatorship.
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