It is by no means intended to be definitive, or even complete. Cia is no exception, and it once worked on developing ways animals could help with intelligence collection. Richelson of the national security archive has been critical of. Based in seoul, colin marshall writes and broadcasts on cities and culture. The cia history of the bay of pigs operation in 1961, originally classified top secret, based on dozens of interviews with key operatives and officials and hundreds of cia documents. Project mkultrasometimes referred to as the cias mind control programwas the code name given to an illegal program of experiments on human subjects, designed and undertaken by the united states central intelligence agency cia. Albert einstein helped develop the theory, which was regarded as highly plausibleso.
Area2 interesting documents from the cia released star gate archives detailing many experiments and the science and theory behind remote viewing. Also available in pdf format this file is 28mb, so please be patient while it. The cia just dumped 12 million declassified pages of. That means you can get it openly from a pharmaceutical supply source. This is the story of thai civilians who volunteered to fight in laos as forward air guides fags in support of thai, lao and u. Justin deschamps the following are two videos detailing a formally accepted theory of earths history, cataclysmic geology. The history of the cia by tim weiner accuses the cia of covert actions and human rights abuses.
But now, anyone can search the documents from anywhere. The mystery of nikola teslas missing files history. Widely known as the family jewels, this document consists of almost 700 pages. This remained the format of the presidents daily digest through dwight. Over 12 million pages of cia documents are now accessible. A documents in history, wikileaks released on tuesday thousands of pages describing sophisticated software tools and techniques used by.
This collection of declassified documents highlights the diverse programs involving the feasibility of using marine and avian animal capabilities in support of intelligence operations. Beginning in july 2018, the intelligence community will begin its release of declassified documents related to the tet offensive. The cias history of covert activity has done more damage to the united states than the combined efforts of its enemies since the end of world war ii. The secret wars of the cia john stockwell a lecture by john stockwell given in october, 1987 on the inner workings of the national security council and the cias convert actions in angola, central america and vietnam. Cia records on assassination planning in guatemala were first gathered pursuant to a freedom of information act lawsuit filed in 1979. Hosted on the cia website, the documents were declassified under an executive order that requires what the agency calls nonexempt historically valuable records 25 years or older to be. Most are heavily redacted as indicated in the brief descriptions that accompany the files. Pbsuccess was the code name for a ciabacked coup led against the democratically elected government of jacobo arbenz, the president of guatemala, in 1954. Cia releases psychic experiment documents stranger things got it wrong. Documents related to the former detention and interrogation. According to a newly declassified cia history of the u2 program obtained under the freedom of information. Freedom of information act electronic reading room cia foia. Millions of cia documents reveal ufo investigations and more.
Cia releases m pages of declassified documents online. Richard helms cia file on nkrumah documents expose u. Hosted on the cia website, the documents were declassified under an executive order that requires what the agency calls nonexempt historically valuable records 25 years or. About million pages of declassified documents from the us central intelligence agency cia have been released online. Declassified cia document reveals that ben franklin and his big ego put u. Throughout its history, the cia has been the subject of a number of controversies, both at home and abroad. Intel, worried by the expansion of russian research into physic functioning in the late 1960s and early 70s, took the decision to explore psychic functioning. All of them were withheld on national security grounds at that time. Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs, alcohol, stick and poke tattoos, and. According to the declassified documents, it was once believed that a 2012like earthcrustal displacement event would occur at some point in the future. This unsigned and undated estimated publication date. Utilizing the freedom of information act foia, the black vaults founder john greenewald, jr. Role in nkrumah overthrow from the white house koner monitored events in accra by courtesy of the cia station. It was the cia and the department of defense, not the department of energy, that conducted covert research on potential.
Its one of the first in a long line of suspected or acknowledged cia interventions in the governments of foreign countries, and it was indeed a tremendous success from the agencys point of view. Cia files reveal us ties with argentina during dirty war despite knowledge of human rights abuses in all, more than 12 million documents are accessible, covering the history of the cia from its creation in the 1940s up to the 1990s with intelligence officials giving assurances that the halfcentury of data is in its entirety, with nothing removed. Operation mockingbird and the cias history of media. Historical analysis of 20 name files from cia records. Hundreds of thousands of declassified cia documents now. The history staff in the cia center for the study of intelligence. Government documents ready to download on nearly any government secret you can imagine. It is not on the central substances act listyet and it is classed as a veterinary aphrodisiac. Cia mkultra mind control collection the black vault.
These documents will be released in three installments over a period of 15 months. Search the history of over 431 billion web pages on the internet. History of the central intelligence agency wikipedia. These documents were compiled by fbi investigators for use in interviewing suspects, presenting to the grand jury, or referencing in the criminal complaints presented against the arrested spies. Inside the fight to reveal the cias torture secrets. What you do with it after you get it is probably your own business. Documents released by cias information management serviceshistorical collections. As far back as the end of world war ii, the central intelligence agency cia has played a major role in news media here in the u. The united states was the last of the major powers to establish a civilian intelligence agency responsible for the collection of secret information for policy makers. This collection consists of some 120 declassified documents, the majority of which are being released for the first time.
This overview and collection of documents and other material related to the office of scientific intelligence osi offer a glimpse of cias overall contribution to the analysis of soviet capabilities in science and technology during the cold war. Documents in pdf format require the adobe acrobat reader. Truman signed the national security act of 1947 into law. The following is a list of controversies involving the central intelligence agency cia. Cia and guatemala assassination proposals, 19521954, cia history staff analysis by gerald k. This secret cia history is full of documents we never would have seen under the freedom of information act, because congress in 1984 gave the cia an exemption for its operational files, on the grounds that such files were too sensitive ever to be released, commented thomas blanton, director of the national security archive. The sgus duties were to blow up the enemys supply depots, ambush their supply lines, trucks, mine and attack enemy strong hold. One example is data on the berlin tunnel project codenamed operation gold, which was a joint cia and british intelligence scheme to carry out surveillance on the soviet army hq in berlin during. The central intelligence agency moved nearly million pages of declassified documents online, previously only physically accessible from four terminals maintained at the national archives in. A major impetus that has been cited over the years for the creation of the cia was the unforeseen attack on pearl harbor, but whatever pearl harbors role, in the twilight of world war ii it was considered clear in government circles. The united states central intelligence agency cia was created on july 26, when harry s. The cias broken promises on declassification follow the link above for information on the archives lawsuit against the cia to force the declassification of key documents on the agencys role in the european elections of 1948 and the 1953 coup in iran, and to read what five former cia directors and others have said about the agencys declassification policies. The collection includes more than 1,200 pages from various studies, memos, letters, and other official records documenting the cias efforts to examine, address, and improve the status of women employees from 1947 to today.
There are other references to and uses of additives in many other. Documents in this file illustrate how the cia and its predecessor agencies the strategic services unit and the central intelligence group, as well as the armys cic, went about investigating rumors about eichmanns whereabouts, mainly from hearsay and unsubstantiated assertions. While many of the documents have been declassified for some time, the pages were intentionally hard to access, and only available on a few computers sitting at the national archives. New archive reveals oncesecret documents from world governments. More pathetically, the cia has very seldom been able to provide the kind of analysis and assessments to inform and rationalize foreign policy that it was created in large part to provide. The majority of the 16,000 documents come from state department files covering the years 1970 to 1990. The sgu played a critical role for the cia in rescuing american shot down pilots flying from north vietnam into laos. Washington in what appears to be the largest leak of c. Dec 31st, 1953 19page typewritten file was part of a collection of cia documents pertaining to operations pbfortune and pbsuccess and was declassified under the freedom of information act on may 15, 1997. The black vault has more than 2,000,000 pages of declassified u. The range of documents, known as the crest cia records search tool database, covers an array of materials related to the vietnam war, korean war and cold war. Here you find a transcript of the cia file titled a study of assassination. The release totals some 1,600 pages and represents the largest amount of vietnamera cia documents yet declassified. After years of fighting with foia requesters, the cia has finally uploaded over 12 million pages of documents to its website.
After nikola tesla was found dead in january 1943 in his hotel room in new york city, representatives of the u. The cia recently released 930,000 declassified documents more than 12 million pages online, representing 25 years of archived material. Cia headquarters, langley, virginia aerial view of central intelligence agency cia headquarters, langley, virginia. Are you a history buff who wants to learn more about the bay of pigs, vietnam or. Freedom of information act electronic reading room cia. John stockwell is the highestranking cia official ever to leave the agency and go public. The cia published a trove of declassified documents online for the first time this week including reports from as far back as the 1940s on topics like the cold war, thousands of pages of daily. Among the key documents declassified that shed considerable light on the history of u.
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