Programs

• Advanced 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.

• Advanced Theoretical Physics Working Group

  Informal group convened in 1985 by Army colonel John B. Alexander, meeting in a BDM secure facility at McLean, Virginia, to determine whether evidence supported a research program on UFOs.

• Alliance for Progress

  Kennedy's 1961 foreign aid program for Latin America promised $20 billion over ten years for social reform, but was largely captured in implementation by the counterinsurgency apparatus and business interests.

• Atoms 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 program.

• Center Lane

  INSCOM's remote-viewing unit from October 1982 to March 1985, kept alive with security and DARPA funds after Congress cut Grill Flame, and handed to the DIA as Sun Streak.

• Chieu Hoi

  South Vietnamese defection and amnesty program of the Vietnam War, the main channel for US psychological operations leaflets and loudspeaker broadcasts aimed at Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers.

• COINTELPRO

  Covert FBI domestic operations program (1956-1971) targeting political organizations through infiltration, fabricated mail, wrongful prosecution and coordination with local police, exposed by the 1971 Media FBI office break-in.

• Commodity 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 fraud there was found.

• Controlled 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.

• Delta Project

  The Delta Project was the operational name for John David Norman's child trafficking and prostitution network, also referred to as the Odyssey Network.

• ECHELON

  ECHELON was the code name for the global signals intelligence collection and analysis network operated by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand); its existence was publicly confirmed through European Parliament investigations in the late 1990s, revealing a mass surveillance architecture that intercepted civilian telephone, fax, and data communications worldwide.

• First 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.

• GALCIT Rocket Research Project

  Caltech rocket group formed in 1936 by Frank Malina, Jack Parsons and Edward Forman, funded from 1939 for jet-assisted takeoff, and renamed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1944.

• Garrison Group

  Committee of six senior CIA officers that Richard Helms convened in September 1967 to manage the agency's response to Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw, who had been a source of its Domestic Contact Service.

• Gondola Wish

  The 902d Military Intelligence Group's 1977 and 1978 plan to train three intelligence personnel in out-of-the-body experience at the Monroe Institute, cancelled in September 1978 and followed by Grill Flame.

• Great 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.

• Grill Flame

  The unclassified nickname for the Army and DIA remote-viewing program, issued in July 1978, curtailed in 1982 and renamed CENTER LANE on December 3, 1982.

• HTLINGUAL

  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 the New York international mail facility without judicial authorization, in violation of federal postal statutes.

• Immaculate Constellation

  Name of an alleged unacknowledged special access program for UAP imagery intelligence, first published in October 2024, described in a 12-page document in the House Oversight record and denied by the Defense Department.

• KK MOUNTAIN

  KK MOUNTAIN was the CIA code-name for its Cold War financial subsidy program providing annual cash payments to Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service.

• KONA BLUE

  Prospective special access program opened in July 2011 by the Department of Homeland Security's science directorate to continue the Defense Intelligence Agency's AAWSAP research, terminated by Deputy Secretary Jane Lute in December 2011.

• Legacy Program

  The Legacy Program is the name given to a deeply hidden, decades-long U.S. government and private contractor effort to retrieve and reverse-engineer technology from crashed or landed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) of non-human origin.

• Manhattan Project

  The Manhattan Project was the top-secret U.S.-British-Canadian research program (1942-1946) that developed the first nuclear weapons under J. Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos and other facilities, culminating in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• Marshall 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 his containment doctrine, and which the Soviet Union refused - deepening the division of Europe that defined the Cold War.

• MKNAOMI

  Joint CIA-Army program under which the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick produced biological and chemical weapons for covert CIA operations, including the toxins Sidney Gottlieb delivered to kill Patrice Lumumba.

• MKSEARCH

  The CIA behavioral control program that succeeded MKULTRA in 1964 under Richard Helms, retaining the most sensitive chemical and biological development activities until Gottlieb terminated it in June 1972.

• Operation AJAX

  Operation AJAX was the CIA code name for the August 1953 covert operation, run with British MI6 (Operation Boot), that overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and restored the Shah to power.

• Operation Arundel

  Operation Arundel (2001) was a Metropolitan Police investigation, arising from the Jonathan King and Chris Denning inquiries, into a suspected ring of BBC celebrities said to procure boys and girls from the Walton Hop Disco.

• Operation 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.

• Operation Brother Sam

  The US naval task force secretly dispatched to Brazilian waters in April 1964 to support the military coup deposing President Joao Goulart, representing the operational culmination of a US covert destabilization program coordinated by the CIA, State Department, and Rockefeller family networks.

• Operation CASTIGATE

  Joint CIA-ARTICHOKE operation in Frankfurt, Germany in 1952 where G. Richard Wendt's truth drug formula was tested on suspected double agents and proved a complete failure.

• Operation CHAOS

  CIA counterintelligence program of the Special Operations Group headed by Richard Ober, run from August 1967 to March 1974, which indexed some 300,000 names and kept about 13,000 files on Americans.

• Operation 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 Letelier murder.

• Operation DERBY HAT

  Army field test of LSD in interrogations in the Far East, August to November 1962, on seven foreign nationals suspected of narcotics dealing or intelligence work; one subject was left semicomatose.

• Operation Fernbridge

  Operation Fernbridge was the Metropolitan Police investigation, launched in February 2013 and closed in March 2015, into allegations that prominent people abused boys at the Elm Guest House in Barnes, London, in the early 1980s.

• Operation Framework

  Scotland Yard investigation, set up after negotiations with Dutch counterparts, into informant reports of snuff films made by British nationals in Amsterdam's boy brothels; it ended with Warwick Spinks's arrest in Hastings.

• Operation Gladio

  Operation Gladio was the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind networks set up by the CIA and British intelligence after World War II, whose members were linked to the bombings of the strategy of tension.

• Operation Gold

  CIA-MI6 tunnel under the Berlin sector boundary that tapped Soviet military cables for eleven months in 1955-1956 until a Soviet discovery; MI6 officer and KGB agent George Blake had informed Moscow.

• Operation 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.

• Operation 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 dosed with LSD by CIA-recruited prostitutes while CIA observers watched through one-way mirrors.

• Operation Mongoose

  Covert action program against Cuba from November 1961, directed by Edward Lansdale, run by the CIA's Task Force W under William Harvey, and suspended after the October 1962 missile crisis.

• Operation Orchid

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

• Operation 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 Dutroux's cellar.

• Operation Paperclip

  Postwar U.S. program that recruited over 1,600 German and Austrian scientists, falsifying Nazi party records to enable their employment; recruits Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph later directed major NASA programs.

• Operation 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 CIA-backed regime change operations, and drawing lessons about covert action that contributed directly to the Bay of Pigs disaster seven years later.

• Operation Ravine

  Operation Ravine was a Surrey Police investigation launched in the mid-2010s following a review of previous inquiries into historical child sexual abuse at the Walton Hop Disco, a popular teenage nightclub in Walton-on-Thames that operated from 1958...

• Operation THIRD CHANCE

  Army field test of LSD on unwitting interrogation subjects in Europe from May to August 1961, including the Black soldier James Thornwell, falsely accused of theft.

• Operation Tintinnabulation

  A US Army psychological operations campaign conducted in Vietnam using aircraft-mounted loudspeakers and noisemakers at night to erode Viet Cong morale and induce surrenders under the Chieu Hoi program, which reportedly doubled monthly defections.

• Operation Tradewinds

  IRS intelligence operation run from Jacksonville from 1965 against American money in Bahamian banks, which used paid informants in violation of Bahamian law and was called off after the Castle Bank briefcase theft.

• Operation 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.

• Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact

  'Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact' (DST-1810S-202-78) was a March 1978 DIA report, attributed by Annie Jacobsen to Dale Graff, assessing Soviet and Warsaw Pact psi research, cited as competitive justification for American programs.

• Phoenix Program

  The CIA-organized counterinsurgency targeting program in Vietnam (1968-1972) that reported 81,740 people neutralized, about 26,369 of them killed, under William Colby and later Ted Shackley.

• Point Four Program

  President Truman's Point Four Program (1949) was the first U.S. foreign technical assistance program aimed at the developing world, providing the institutional template that Nelson Rockefeller later built on in his International Development Advisory Board proposals.

• Policy Analysis Market

  The Policy Analysis Market was a DARPA-funded 2003 futures market on Middle Eastern outcomes, within FutureMAP, which senators denounced as betting on terrorism on July 28, 2003 and the Pentagon abandoned the next day.

• Project 8200

  Project 8200 is the subject of a 2024 book by former STARGATE remote viewer Frederick Atwater claiming the existence of classified UAP base locations identified through remote viewing operations.

• Project Agile

  An ARPA-sponsored series of military science studies in Asia during the Vietnam era that included, among other programs, a Battelle Memorial Institute study developing olfactory weapons calibrated to trigger fear responses in specific ethnic populations.

• Project Aquarius

  Name of a purported compartmented UFO project that first appears in a November 17, 1980 AFOSI teletype copied to William Moore and in a June 14, 1977 'Executive Briefing' he photographed in March 1983.

• Project Azorian

  CIA operation of 1969 to 1974 that built the Hughes Glomar Explorer under Howard Hughes's name to raise a sunken Soviet missile submarine, and gave its name to the refusal to confirm or deny.

• Project Blue Book

  U.S. Air Force program, run from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, that collected and evaluated unidentified flying object reports from 1952 to 1969 and was terminated on 17 December 1969 with 701 of 12,618 cases unidentified.

• Project 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, forming the direct institutional predecessor to Project MKULTRA.

• Project Camelot

  A 1964 U.S. Army social-science project run through SORO at American University to model revolution in developing countries, cancelled in July 1965 after Johan Galtung's exposure of it provoked a Chilean protest and congressional hearings.

• Project CHATTER

  U.S. Navy program established in 1947 to develop a truth drug for interrogation, which ran in parallel with early CIA efforts and ended following the Wendt fiasco in 1952.

• Project 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.

• Project 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.

• Project Exploit USSR

  A 1962 five-volume classified typescript that analyzed psychological vulnerabilities in the Soviet Union for use in psychological operations, comprising an orientation and summary volume, a component social systems analysis, and a synthesis and overview.

• Project FUBELT

  CIA operation ordered by President Nixon on September 15, 1970, to provoke a military coup before Salvador Allende took office, in which the agency armed and paid officers plotting to kidnap General Rene Schneider.

• Project MERRIMAC

  CIA Office of Security program (about 1967-1974) that infiltrated antiwar and civil rights organizations in Washington, D.C., feeding Operation CHAOS through the CACTUS pipeline until exposed by Seymour Hersh and the Church Committee.

• Project 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 about 150 subprojects before its records were destroyed in 1973.

• Project Monarch

  An alleged offshoot of MKULTRA said to have used trauma-based programming to create multiple personalities in subjects for use as couriers, sex slaves, and operatives.

• Project Pandora

  Project Pandora was a classified program of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA), run from 1965 to March 1970, that irradiated primates to duplicate the Soviet Moscow Signal aimed at the U.S. Embassy.

• Project 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.

• Project Sahara

  Project Sahara was the code name for LAPD detective Guzzetta's investigation into the Blandón cocaine network, which uncovered the Contra drug connection before being shut down.

• Project Troy

  Project Troy was a 1950-51 MIT study of Soviet jamming and political warfare, reporting to the Secretary of State, whose February 1951 report proposed radio, balloon and elite-directed campaigns behind the Iron Curtain.

• PROMIS

  Case management software developed by INSLAW from 1971 that became the center of a legal and intelligence scandal after the Justice Department allegedly took the proprietary version and distributed it abroad with a hidden backdoor.

• Quantico Vulnerabilities Panel

  Eleven consultants convened by Nelson Rockefeller met at Quantico in June 1955 to recommend ways of exploiting Communist bloc vulnerabilities, and their aerial inspection proposal became Eisenhower's Open Skies offer at Geneva.

• Research Project on Totalitarian Communication

  Rockefeller-funded wartime study of Nazi radio propaganda at the New School's Graduate Faculty, run by Ernst Kris and Hans Speier from April 1941 with BBC monitoring material, whose papers went to Washington, London and Ottawa.

• Rockefeller Initiative

  A 1993 to 1997 effort by Laurance S. Rockefeller, with Henry L. Diamond and C. B. Scott Jones, to obtain a review of government UFO information from the Clinton White House through its science adviser.

• SCANATE

  CIA-funded SRI remote-viewing research of 1972 to 1975, named for scanning by coordinate; SRI reported its West Virginia and Urals readings verified, sponsor analysts judged its Semipalatinsk test unsuccessful, and OTS ended it in 1976.

• SERE

  A US military training program developed after the Korean War to prepare service members to resist coercive interrogation through simulated captivity, which became the template for 'enhanced interrogation' techniques after its methods were reverse-engineered for offensive use following September 11, 2001.

• Stargate 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.

• Sun Streak

  The DIA's special access program for the Fort Meade remote-viewing unit from 1986 to 1990, working 192 projects by 1989, judged by a 1990 counternarcotics test to give good data in a third of cases.

• The Nautilus (Telepathy Project)

  French accounts of 1959 and 1960 described telepathy tests between a shore laboratory and the submarine USS Nautilus; the U.S. Navy denied them, and Soviet parapsychologists cited them to obtain support.

• UKUSA Agreement

  The UKUSA Agreement (1946) is the signals intelligence treaty between the United States, United Kingdom, and later Australia, Canada, and New Zealand that established the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance; it is the legal and institutional backbone of ECHELON and all subsequent mass surveillance architectures documented in this vault.

• Wandering Souls

  A US psychological operations tactic used in Vietnam by the 1st Infantry Division in which helicopters overflew villages between midnight and 6 a.m. broadcasting eerie recordings representing the souls of unburied dead Viet Cong soldiers, designed to exploit Vietnamese superstitions about the fate of those killed in battle far from home.

• ZR RIFLE

  CIA executive action program established in early 1961 under William Harvey to develop a capability to kill foreign leaders, applied against Fidel Castro through Johnny Roselli and exposed by the Church Committee in 1975.

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