Top 10 declassified documents that rocked the world. Here you find a transcript of the cia file titled a study of assassination. Intelligence and the polish crisis, 19801981, a csi publication by douglas maceachin. Additionally, the declassified documents reveal that early in the 1970s, the cia was exhibiting interest in extrasensory perception esp and people who apparently exhibited paranormal abilities roughly at the same time when the us military initiated project stargate, which was tasked with investigating the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications.
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Apr 29, 2016 these documents remained classified for nearly a century until recent advancements in technology made it possible to release them, former cia director leon panetta said during the document. After years of fighting with foia requesters, the cia has finally uploaded over 12 million pages of documents to its website. Today is the second anniversary of the central intelligence agency s declassified archives being published online after a lengthy legal battle. Jan 18, 2017 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. The declassification includes 700 controversial cia documents that the directorate of operations had refused to releaserecords of u. 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. The cia forgot about a bunch of classified 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. Eric davis, earthtech international product is classified unclassified. While well be examine some of the larger impact the release has had in a little bit, we also wanted to share whats hands down the.
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Declassified in part sanitized copy approved for release 20624. The declassified cia documents show that in 1955 an american espionage informant claimed to have met with adolf hitler in colombia and as evidence provided pictures of himself with the fuehrer more than a decade after his alleged suicide. The trove contains files covering a wide range of secrets, from the mundane to the mindblowing and, yes, even ufos. This is a substancial catalog of ufo and alien disclosure files, reports, and documents from the central intelligence agency cia of the united states of america u. Government documents ready to download on nearly any government secret you can imagine. While well be examine some of the larger impact the release has had in a little bit, we also wanted to share whats hands down the weirdest thing weve found so far. Jan 18, 2017 the redacted, declassified documents cover everything from intelligence reports to internal documents to items from the cias predecessor agency, the office of strategic services. Aug 15, 2016 most archival records held by nara are available to the public for research and are either unclassified or declassified. Jan 18, 2017 about million pages of declassified documents from the us central intelligence agency cia have been released online. During your research, you may come across withdrawal notices or forms that indicate a record is restricted and not available to the public. Cia publishes doctor zhivago in russian and exposes life in ussr under communism. This unsigned and undated estimated publication date.
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