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2020s23 entries
  1. 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…

  2. 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.

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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.

  7. 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…

  8. 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…

  9. 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.

  10. 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…

  11. 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…

  12. 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…

  13. 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…

  14. 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…

  15. 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…

  16. 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…

  17. 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…

  18. 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…

  19. Began · EventGovernment of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank

    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.

    2022–2023
  20. 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…

  21. 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…

  22. 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…

  23. Began · EventUnited States v. Shea et al. (2020)

    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…

    2020–2022
2010s14 entries
  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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.

  5. 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.…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Began · EventGamergate

    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…

    2014–2015
  12. Began · ProgramOperation Midland

    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.

    2014–2016
  13. Began · ProgramOperation 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…

    2013–2015
  14. 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
  1. Began · EventDoe v. United States

    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.

    2008–2022
  2. Began · ProgramAdvanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

    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.

    2007–2012
  3. Began · EventEpstein non-prosecution agreement

    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.

    2007–2019
  4. 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.

  5. 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
  1. Began · EventRolodex Investigation

    Dutch police inquiry (1997-1998) into a callboy service catering to Dutch justice officials, exposing connections between child trafficking networks and senior government figures.

    1997–1998
  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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…

  6. Began · ProgramOperation Othello

    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…

    1995–1996
  7. Began · Event1995 transfer of Star Gate to the CIA

    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.

    1994–1995
  8. Began · EventHIK Investigation

    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.

    1994–1995
  9. Began · EventHIK Report

    Official report from the Dutch HIK investigation into the Manuel Schadwald disappearance and the Rotterdam child trafficking network, revealing a government cover-up.

    1994–1995
  10. Began · EventThree Rivers District Council v Bank of England

    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.

    1993–2006
  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. Began · ProgramOperation Framework

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

    1992–1993
  14. Began · EventScott Inquiry

    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,…

    1992–1996
  15. 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.

  16. Began · EventProject Abbreviation

    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.

    1990–2000
1980s23 entries
  1. 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.

  2. Began · ProgramOperation Orchid

    Operation Orchid was a Scotland Yard investigation into Sidney Cooke and his gang of pedophiles conducted during the 1980s.

    1989–1992
  3. Began · EventFranklin Credit Union Scandal

    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…

    1988–1994
  4. Began · EventPan Am Flight 103

    1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, connecting international terrorism to drug trafficking and intelligence operations.

  5. 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.

  6. Began · EventArms-to-Iraq

    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,…

    1987–1996
  7. Began · EventOperation C-Chase

    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.

    1986–1988
  8. 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.

  9. Began · ProgramSun Streak

    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.

    1986–1990
  10. Began · EventAchille Lauro

    1985 cruise ship attack described as an Israeli black propaganda operation designed to portray Palestinians as terrorists.

  11. Began · EventBNL Scandal

    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.

    1985–1993
  12. Began · EventHashemi Sting

    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.

    1985–1986
  13. Began · EventIran-Contra Affair

    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.

    1985–1987
  14. Began · ProgramCommodity Credit Corporation Iraq Program

    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…

    1983–1990
  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. Began · EventBoland Amendment

    Series of congressional amendments prohibiting U.S. funding for Contra military operations, widely circumvented by the Reagan administration and the CIA.

    1982–1984
  18. Began · ProgramCenter Lane

    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.

    1982–1985
  19. Began · EventPROMIS Software Scandal

    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…

    1982–1998
  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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…

  23. Began · EventOctober Surprise

    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…

    1980–1981
1970s30 entries
  1. Began · EventExtraordinary Powers Craze

    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…

    1979–1989
  2. 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.

  3. Began · EventGrill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee

    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…

    1979–1980
  4. Occurred · EventIranian Revolution

    1979 popular uprising that overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing an Islamic republic and fundamentally reshaping Middle Eastern geopolitics.

  5. 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…

  6. 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.

  7. 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…

  8. 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.

  9. Began · ProgramStargate Project

    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.

    1977–1995
  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Began · EventHSCA

    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…

    1976–1979
  13. Began · EventLockheed bribe scandal

    1976 scandal involving bribes paid by Lockheed Aircraft Company to Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres and other international figures.

  14. Began · EventOakland County Child Killer

    Unsolved murders of four children in Oakland County, Michigan (1976-1977) that investigators steered away from leads pointing to organized pedophile rings.

    1976–1977
  15. Began · EventPhillip Paske & The Delta Project

    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.

    1976–1978
  16. Began · EventChurch Committee

    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,…

    1975–1976
  17. 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…

  18. 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…

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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…

  22. 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…

  23. Began · ProgramSCANATE

    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…

    1972–1977
  24. Began · EventWatergate

    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…

    1972–1974
  25. 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…

  26. 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…

  27. 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.

  28. Began · EventDean Corll Murders

    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.

    1970–1973
  29. 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…

  30. 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
  1. 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…

  2. Began · ProgramProject 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.

    1969–1975
  3. 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,…

  4. Began · ProgramPhoenix 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…

    1968–1972
  5. 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.

  6. Began · ProgramOperation 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…

    1967–1974
  7. Began · ProgramProject 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…

    1967–1974
  8. Began · ProgramProject RESISTANCE

    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.

    1967–1973
  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Began · ProgramOperation 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.

    1965–1975
  13. 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…

  14. 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…

  15. 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.

  16. Began · EventWarren Commission

    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…

    1963–1964
  17. 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…

  18. 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.

  19. 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…

  20. 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…

  21. Began · EventBerlin Wall

    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,…

    1961–1989
  22. Began · ProgramOperation 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)…

    1961–1962
  23. Occurred · EventParis Summit Meeting

    1960 summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev that collapsed after the U-2 Incident, derailing a potential US-Soviet detente.

  24. 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…

  25. 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.

  26. Began · ProgramZR 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…

    1960–1963
1950s20 entries
  1. 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.

  2. Began · ProgramCOINTELPRO

    COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a covert FBI domestic operations program (1956-1971) targeting political organizations through infiltration, psychological warfare, fabricated mail, wrongful prosecution,…

    1956–1971
  3. 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…

  4. Began · EventMoscow Signal

    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.

    1956–1976
  5. Began · ProgramOperation 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…

    1956–1990
  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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,…

  10. Began · ProgramOperation 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…

    1955–1963
  11. Began · EventDienbienphu

    Decisive 1954 battle in the First Indochina War where the Viet Minh defeated French colonial forces, ending French rule in Indochina.

  12. Began · EventLavon Affair

    Covert 1954 Israeli operation in Egypt involving bombings of American, British, and Egyptian targets designed to damage Western-Egyptian relations.

  13. Began · ProgramOperation 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…

    1954–1956
  14. 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…

  15. 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…

  16. 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…

  17. Began · ProgramProject 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…

    1953–1973
  18. Began · ProgramHTLINGUAL

    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…

    1952–1973
  19. Began · EventKorean War

    1950-1953 conflict between North and South Korea that involved U.S. intelligence programs and connections to later covert operations in Southeast Asia.

    1950–1953
  20. Began · ProgramProject 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,…

    1950–1956
1940s6 entries
  1. Began · EventArab-Israeli War (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.

    1948–1949
  2. Began · ProgramMarshall 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…

    1948–1952
  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Began · ProgramOperation 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…

    1945–1959
  6. Began · ProgramManhattan 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…

    1942–1947
1930s1 entry
  1. Began · EventBusiness Plot

    1933 alleged conspiracy by Wall Street financiers including the DuPont family to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist dictatorship.

    1933–1934