Four Experts and the CIA's 1978 Map of the Psychic Mind
Government agents approached American parapsychologists in a secret effort to gauge the military utility of psi, a pursuit tracked in a survey kept in CIA files for decades.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Defense Intelligence Agency
DIA’s 1999 Purple Book and the Strategic Blind Spot for Domestic Ruin
A 'Secret/Noforn' primer kept from foreign allies for years mapped the threats facing the US through 2020, but the planners left the internal rot of the American state entirely off the ledger.
By Constance Bell ·
Eisenhower’s Blueprint and Kennedy’s 1961 Intelligence Order
Army and Navy intelligence fought for decades over the spoils of secrets, leaving a trail of blind spots that lasted until the 1960s.
By Harlan Pryce ·
21,000 Liberian Children Recruited for Their Natural Obedience
Liberian children were transformed into instruments of state-collapse by warring factions who viewed their natural obedience as a tactical asset for executing massacres.
By Harlan Pryce ·
General Iván Ramírez viewed as capable of anything when money is involved
General Carlos Gil Colorado was gunned down in 1994, leaving a murder that remains an open wound while a notorious officer aided narcotraffickers and abused human rights.
By Desmond Okafor ·