Declassified America: A Catalog of 500 Covert Programs (1947–Present)
@XLuminant
1. CIA Mind-Control & Behavior Control Experiments:
MKULTRA, LSD dosing, hypnosis, electroshock, “Manchurian Candidate” programs
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2. Vietnam Assassination Squads & War on the Black Panthers / Anti-War Movement:
Phoenix Program, COINTELPRO, political neutralization inside the U.S.
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3. Overthrowing Latin American Governments & Controlling U.S. Media:
CIA coups in Chile, Guatemala, etc. Operation Mockingbird journalists on payroll
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4. Secret Wars in Africa & the Middle East Cuban Exile Terror Campaigns:
Congo, Angola, Syria, Libya proxies Bay of Pigs–era anti-Castro ops
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5. FBI War on Civil Rights Leaders & the New Left:
COINTELPRO against MLK, Black Panthers, SDS, fake letters, assassinations
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6. Global Wiretapping & Financial Surveillance Before the Snowden Revelations:
ECHELON, remote viewing (STARGATE), SWIFT monitoring, sanctions as economic warfare
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7. The Programs Snowden Exposed to the World:
PRISM, XKEYSCORE, MYSTIC, TEMPORA, upstream collection, Five-Eyes mass spying
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8. Kill Lists, Drone Strikes & CIA Torture Prisons After 9/11:
Disposition Matrix, black sites, enhanced interrogation, rendition flights
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9. Israel Five-Eyes Joint Surveillance & Assassination Programs:
Unit 8200, Pegasus spyware, Pine Gap, joint Stuxnet-style ops
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10. CIA Hacking Arsenal Exposed by Vault 7: Weeping Angel TVs, Marble obfuscation, zero-days, smartphone implants
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11. Drone Signature Strikes & the New Cyber Warfare Era:
Reaper fleets, Olympic Games successors, offensive cyber units
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12. How France, Canada & Australia Help Spy on Their Own Citizens:
DGSE, CSIS, ASD programs feeding into the Five-Eyes dragnet
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13. Weather Weapons, Voice-to-Skull & Other “Fringe” Programs That Got Declassified:
HAARP successors, MEDUSA, psychotronics, Insect Allies, late FOIA drops
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14. Still-Active Bioweapons Labs, Pandemic Planning & the Continuity-of-Government: “Doomsday” Switches BSL-4 networks, gain-of-function, COG cyber kill-switches, the unnamed umbrella program
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MKULTRA
1953–1973 | Central Intelligence Agency
149 documented subprojects | $10–25 million (1950s dollars)
What it actually was:
The CIA paid doctors, psychologists, and chemists across North America to give LSD, mescaline, BZ gas, scopolamine, and dozens of other drugs to people who had no idea they were in an experiment.
Subjects included:
- Federal prisoners
- Mental-hospital patients (some held in drug-induced comas for months)
- Soldiers told they were getting “stress tests”
- Bar patrons in San Francisco and New York whose drinks were spiked by CIA officers
- Prostitutes’ clients in CIA safe houses (watched through two-way mirrors)
Most famous site: Dr. Ewen Cameron at McGill University in Montreal.
He used CIA money to put patients into insulin comas, gave them electroshock at 75× normal intensity, and played taped messages thousands of times to “erase” their memories and “rebuild” personalities. Many left permanently damaged.
In 1973 CIA Director Richard Helms ordered every MKULTRA file destroyed.
The only reason we know any of this is because about 20,000 pages were mis-filed in a financial archive and surfaced in 1977.
Primary admissions:
- 1977 Senate Select Committee hearings
- CIA “Family Jewels” report, pp. 385–422
- 8,000 surviving pages released under FOIA