Every document below was classified. Some were destroyed. Some were accidentally preserved. All of them reveal something they didn't want you to know.
From 1953 to 1973, the CIA ran a covert program testing LSD, hypnosis, and psychological torture on unwitting American and Canadian citizens. When Director Richard Helms ordered the files destroyed in 1973, he didn't know about the 20,000 documents stored in a financial records building. Those documents changed everything.
Beginning in the early 1950s, the CIA recruited journalists at major outlets — the New York Times, CBS, Time magazine — to plant stories, suppress others, and shape public opinion. The Church Committee confirmed it in 1975. The question is: did it ever stop?
After decades of delays, thousands of documents were finally released. Most headlines focused on what was still redacted. But buried in the released files were connections between Oswald, the CIA, and a network of anti-Castro operatives that the Warren Commission never fully explored.
From 1956 to 1971, the FBI ran a covert program to 'neutralize' political dissidents — including Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Panthers, and anti-war activists. The tactics included forged letters, planted evidence, and in some cases, direct coordination with local police in targeted killings.
In 2017, a FOIA request returned 47 pages — every line blacked out. The program's name itself is classified. What we know: it ran from 1981 to at least 2004, involved at least three foreign governments, and cost an estimated $████ billion.
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous
he cannot believe it exists."
— J. EDGAR HOOVER, DIRECTOR OF THE FBI, 1956
Every operation below has been confirmed through declassified documents, congressional testimony, or official government acknowledgment. These are not allegations. Click any file to open the full record.
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