Long kept in the shadows of the National Archives, these records link a purported truth-seeking foundation to the military intelligence units that shaped the Cold War.
A diplomatic lie about carrier flights over the Kurile Islands pushed Soviet leadership to authorize lethal force against American pilots, a gamble kept secret for 41 years.
Secret Service agents and CIA officers sat on a restricted Army access list for years, while the project's actual name is still blacked out in the records.
Kept secret for decades, these reports track the security police response to religious apparitions and the agency's interest in the psychic networks of Switzerland.
People on the ground had no margin of safety as aircraft marked them for incineration with smoke rockets or blasted them with loudspeakers to erode the will of the adversary.