Dr. Puthoff and the 1982 Delay of the Remote Viewing Demonstration
Kept secret for 18 years, a memo describes how a planned proof of psychic spying was pushed back to avoid a fiscal year failure by citing funding problems.
By Miriam Adler ·
Intelligence Community
Central MASINT Office and the 1999 Grab for Technical Intelligence
A set of briefing slides from March 1999 shows the Defense Intelligence Agency seizing control of the scientific sensors used to track WMDs, a move hidden behind a reorganization of the Intelligence Community.
By Miriam Adler ·
Leonard Perroots and the CIA's War on a Public Record
The CIA erased text already published by the State Department to hide the contents of a 1989 report, scrubbing even the portions marked unclassified.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Job Evaluation Task Force and the Erasure of the Invisible Worker
A two-year mission to reform federal pay scales stayed buried in a catalog description, shielding the names of those purged or hidden from the public ledger.
By Harlan Pryce ·
"Important Qualifications" and the DCI's CBRN Alarm
The Director of Central Intelligence ignored technical realities to paint a picture of imminent disaster, a deception the GAO flagged as a threat to national resource allocation.
By Marcus Boone ·
Intelligence community built a secret state on 1947 blueprints
Foreign scientific personalities were tracked for their biographical data in an atomic race, while the secret state codified rigid rules for cover and NGO ties.
By Constance Bell ·