Kept secret until 2000, this record shows how the CIA tried to weaponize human perception to match Soviet psychic research and turn ordinary citizens into intelligence assets.
By Miriam Adler ·
Kept secret until 2000, a series of intelligence abstracts tracks the psychological fragility of believers and the 'sociopaths' who lead them, mapping the mechanics of mass hysteria.
By Miriam Adler ·
Analysts tracked the public debate over psychic phenomena for decades, monitoring how adversaries in China and the USSR might turn parapsychology into a weapon.
By Vera Kessler ·
A PhD's study of 'subtle energies' and private cults was held in a CIA file for over twenty years, leaving the identities of his occult sources blacked out by OCR noise and secrecy.
By June Hargrove ·
For fourteen years, the government funded a digital dragnet of psychic practitioners and literature, a project kept secret until 2000 and still hiding its primary objective.
By June Hargrove ·
A curated bibliography kept secret for decades maps the boundary between psychiatric theory and the operational use of 'sensitives' to solve crimes and gauge population susceptibility.
By Miriam Adler ·
The agency kept a Scottish academic's manual on 'ideal' judging secret for years, using it to quantify the invisible and justify the impossible.
By Miriam Adler ·
Reduced to a digit in a failed CIA experiment, an unnamed asset remains trapped in a file kept secret for 24 years and released as illegible digital noise.
By Eleanor Voss ·
An Apollo 14 experiment conducted during rest periods suggested a communication method that would render all encryption obsolete, a fact kept in a CIA file until 2001.
By June Hargrove ·
Six hundred fifty patients were monitored for their responses to spiritual healing while the CIA quietly indexed the mechanisms of suggestion and psychological breakdown.
By June Hargrove ·
Rural healers and near-death experiences were scrubbed for intelligence value in a file signed by R.A.W. and kept from the public for decades.
By June Hargrove ·
Kept secret for decades, this ledger of psychotronics tracks Jesuit-run labs in Brazil and Soviet ESP research to gauge a hidden arms race in the human mind
By Miriam Adler ·
A technical blueprint for converting biological signals into machine-readable data sits tucked within a CIA archive, tracing the lines between academic research and intelligence requirements.
By Eleanor Voss ·
An Italian businessman and his companion were held at gunpoint because of a vision in Washington, part of a psychic search for a kidnapped general kept secret for nearly two decades.
By June Hargrove ·
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.
By June Hargrove ·
Forty volunteers were subjected to "image roulette" to see if the human brain can precognize a face before it is randomly generated in a study found in CIA FOIA files.
By June Hargrove ·