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People (3)

  • Emmett O'Brien A US Army colonel in military intelligence who produced a 1971 study at the US Army War College on the five-phase defection process, drawing on cases from the Philippines, Malayan, and Vietnam wars and peacetime defections to the US, arguing that the use of already-defected guerrillas as testimonial voices was the most effective technique for inducing further defection.
  • Karl Nell Retired U.S. Army colonel and aerospace executive named as the Army's liaison to the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022, vouched for David Grusch in 2023 and spoke at both Sol Foundation symposia.
  • Vincent Ruwet Lieutenant Colonel who headed the Army's Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick and was Frank Olson's direct superior, present at the Deep Creek retreat where the CIA dosed his men with LSD and the official who escorted Olson to New York before his death.

Organizations (10)

  • 4th Psychological Operations Group A US Army psychological operations unit that developed specialized psyops technology including the Mitralux image projector and the hurricane hustler leaflet delivery device during the Vietnam War.
  • 7th Psychological Operations Group A US Army psychological operations unit headquartered in Okinawa that produced weekly classified propaganda analysis documents during the Vietnam War, including Communist Propaganda Highlights and Trends Analysis reports.
  • Army Chemical Corps Army branch, the Chemical Warfare Service until 1946, whose Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick worked with the CIA under MKNAOMI and whose contract drug killed Harold Blauer in 1953.
  • Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity Army Materiel Command systems-analysis activity at Aberdeen Proving Ground, formed in 1968, which ran its own replication of the SRI remote-viewing protocol under Grill Flame in 1978 and 1979.
  • CRESS Army-funded counterinsurgency and psychological-warfare research center at American University, founded in 1956 as the Special Operations Research Office (SORO), which ran Project Camelot and was renamed CRESS in 1966.
  • HumRRO A nonprofit research organization founded in 1951 that served as the US Army's primary contractor for behavioral science research, conducting classified studies on training, leadership, counterinsurgency, and psychological vulnerability before separating from George Washington University in 1969.
  • ORO-RAC A pair of successive Army-linked research organizations at Johns Hopkins University and then McLean, Virginia, that conducted early Cold War studies on fighter selection, unit cohesion, and guerrilla psychology before the university severed the relationship and the work continued under an independent nonprofit.
  • United States Army Criminal Investigation Division The United States Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the Army's primary felony law enforcement agency, responsible for criminal investigations within the service including the cases against STARGATE remote viewer David Morehouse.
  • United States Army Special Forces The United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets) are a special operations force whose Vietnam veterans Michael Hand and Bo Gritz are central vault subjects through their respective roles in Nugan Hand Bank and CIA drug trafficking operations in the Golden Triangle.
  • USARIBSS The US Army's primary in-house behavioral and social science research organization, which operated under a series of names from its origins as the US Army Personnel Research Office through its consolidation as the Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences in 1974.

Programs (5)

  • Chieu Hoi A South Vietnamese government defection program running throughout the Vietnam War that offered amnesty to Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers who surrendered, and became the primary distribution channel for US psychological operations leaflets and loudspeaker broadcasts.
  • 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.
  • Project Camelot A 1964 US Army project run through SORO at American University under contract ARO-7 and a budget Secretary of State Rusk described as 'more than $4,000,000' that attempted to build a predictive social science model for revolution in developing countries; cancelled in July 1965 after its exposure by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung provoked a Chilean diplomatic protest, congressional hearings, and a permanent rupture between the military and academic social science communities.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Places (1)

  • Aberdeen Proving Ground The Army's oldest proving ground, on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland since 1917, which absorbed Edgewood Arsenal in 1971 and housed the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity's Grill Flame trials.