This site publishes the first full-text transcriptions of government documents that confirm specific facts the public does not know are confirmed.
Every document on this site is a primary source. Each entry links to a full transcription with a plain English summary, FOIA status, source links, and an accounting of what the record does and does not establish.
Air Defense Command records documenting the activation and radar network integration of Montauk AFS. The AN/FPS-35 radar tower is formally identified as operational through decommissioning. Post-closure FOIA responses acknowledge classified activities but return no records for the period after 1969.
→ Air Force Historical Research AgencyThe September 20, 1977 memorandum from the General Counsel of the Department of Defense to the Secretary of Defense, documenting Army and Navy participation in CIA mind control and behavior modification drug programs from 1947 to 1973. Full text transcribed for the first time as searchable HTML.
→ FOIA Release 02-A-0846 — archive.is/7KAqFThe October 2022 Army Corps of Engineers Final Decision Document for the Camp Hero FUDS. Formally confirms underground bunkers, Battery 112 and 113, the FPS-35 radar tower, and the exclusion of Areas H and K from investigation. Full 121-page document transcribed as searchable text for the first time.
→ NYSDEC — Decision Document HW.152231.2022-11-21The CIA formally researched LSD, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and electromagnetic signals as behavioral control tools for twenty years. Over 1,200 documents were released in December 2024. MKUltra is confirmed Senate testimony and FOIA record, not speculation.
→ National Security Archive / CIA FOIA Reading RoomComplete transcription of the 172-page joint Senate hearing on Project MKUltra. CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner testifies on the discovery of seven boxes of surviving financial records. 150 subprojects confirmed. Unwitting drug testing on U.S. citizens confirmed. Frank Olson. First full searchable text transcription of this document.
→ U.S. Senate — intelligence.senate.govComplete transcription of the Top Secret CIA Inspector General inspection of MKUltra. Prepared in one copy only. Confirms Bureau of Narcotics safehouses in New York and San Francisco for unwitting drug testing on U.S. citizens since 1955. Recommends termination. Confirms 144 subprojects. Includes original 1953 Helms and Dulles authorization documents. First full searchable text transcription.
→ CIA FOIA Reading Room — C06767515The direct predecessor to MKUltra. CIA documents confirm the use of hypnosis, drug administration, and sensory manipulation in interrogations of subjects. ARTICHOKE established the institutional framework that MKUltra would later expand.
→ CIA FOIA Reading RoomComplete transcription of three declassified CIA ARTICHOKE documents. The July 1952 Artichoke Cases report documents the first confirmed overseas ARTICHOKE interrogations: two subjects held at a guarded safehouse, eyes taped shut in transit, subjected to hypnosis and sodium pentothal. Total amnesia produced in both cases. Subjects' dispositions after the operations were outside the Artichoke Team's responsibility. Frank Olson named in the 1975 retrospective. First full searchable text transcriptions.
→ CIA FOIA Reading Room — documents 12888369, 12888533, 12884836A classified CIA study cataloguing active psychological warfare research programs inside the U.S. Air Force as of September 1950. Confirms formal CIA and Air Force behavioral research coordination three years before MKUltra began.
→ CIA FOIA Reading Room — CIA-RDP80R01731R003500150016-5Filed in 1974 by Robert G. Malech of Dorne and Margolin Inc. Approved by the United States Patent Office. The patent describes a device capable of monitoring and altering human brain waves from a distance without physical contact. It remains in the public record.
→ United States Patent and Trademark Office — US3951134