SECTOR // 09 // Conspiracy
Conspiracy
Programmes that became real on declassification — Mockingbird, MK-Ultra, Stargate, COINTELPRO, the documented coordinations that were once dismissed as conspiracy theory.
The Conspiracy file is a record of state programmes whose existence was, for years or decades, denied — and which subsequent declassification, congressional inquiry, or whistleblower disclosure proved real. Project MK-Ultra was a CIA mind-control programme. Operation Mockingbird recruited journalists. Project Stargate ran remote-viewing experiments at SRI. COINTELPRO surveilled and disrupted civil-rights organisations on US soil.
This file is exclusively for the documented. It is not for unfalsifiable claims, generic distrust of institutions, or theories that depend on no source ever surfacing. The standard for entry is: a primary documentary record, a congressional record, a court record, or a credible whistleblower in possession of corroborating documentation.
The reason this file exists is a simple historical observation: the median declassified programme of the past century looks closer to its original conspiracy theory than to its initial official denial.
SUB-CATEGORIES
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Operation Mockingbird
CIA programme from the late 1940s onwards to recruit US journalists and influence domestic and foreign news coverage.
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MK-Ultra
CIA mind-control programme from 1953 to 1973 involving non-consensual administration of LSD and other compounds to US and Canadian citizens.
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Project Stargate
DIA-funded remote-viewing research programme conducted at SRI International from 1972 to 1995.
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COINTELPRO
FBI counter-intelligence programme from 1956 to 1971 targeting domestic political organisations.
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Secret Societies & Occult Orders
Closed fraternal, initiatory and occult organisations — from documented historical orders to the figures who moved between them and the institutions of state and science.
RECENT FILES IN THIS CATEGORY
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CS-26011 // MK-Ultra
Operation Popeye
Operation Popeye was a classified US cloud-seeding programme flown over Southeast Asia from the twentieth of March 1967 to the fifth of July 1972, intended to extend the southwest monsoon and mire the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The Department of Defense flew 2,602 seeding sorties and expended 47,409 silver- and lead-iodide units, and later told a closed Senate subcommittee that the results were "certainly limited and unverifiable." The programme was admitted in a Top Secret hearing on the twentieth of March 1974, made public on the nineteenth of May 1974, and drove the ENMOD Convention banning hostile environmental modification.
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CR-26009 // Jersey Devil // also tagged
The Jersey Devil and the Leeds–Franklin Printing Feud
The claim under examination is that America's most famous cryptid began as a printing feud rather than a monstrous birth — Quaker polemicists branding the almanac-maker Daniel Leeds a servant of Satan in the 1690s, and Benjamin Franklin mock-prophesying the death of Daniel's son Titan in 1733. The surviving primary record confirms the pamphlet war, the Leeds family's demonisation in print, and Franklin's almanac hoax. It does not contain any colonial-era document linking those insults to a winged creature; that connection is a named modern scholarly thesis, not a documented fact.
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CS-26010 // Project Stargate
Project Blue Book and the 1968 Condon Report
Project Blue Book was the US Air Force's UFO investigation office at Wright-Patterson AFB, running from March 1952 until December 1969 and logging 12,618 sightings, of which 701 were never identified. It was closed after a US$313,000 Air Force-funded study at the University of Colorado, directed by the physicist Edward U. Condon, concluded in 1968 that further UFO study was unlikely to advance science — a conclusion endorsed by a National Academy of Sciences panel on the eighth of January 1969. The case files were transferred to the US National Archives in 1975 and are public today.
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CS-26009 // Project Stargate
The 2004 AFRL Teleportation Physics Study and the Chinese "Gifted Children" Experiments
In August 2004 the US Air Force Research Laboratory published an unclassified, publicly releasable report — Teleportation Physics Study (AFRL-PR-ED-TR-2003-0034) — written under contract by the physicist Eric W. Davis. Its fifth chapter summarised Chinese research from 1981 and 1990 in which "gifted children" were said to move sealed objects through the intact walls of their containers, and recommended a five-year US programme of roughly $1.5 million a year. The Air Force did not fund it, and the document remains the most-cited English-language route by which the Chinese claims entered a US military record.
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UF-26018 // Cigar // also tagged
The 1933 Magenta Incident and Mussolini's Gabinetto RS/33
A body of documents that surfaced anonymously in Italy from 1996 onwards claims a metallic craft came down near Magenta, Lombardy, on the thirteenth of June 1933, and that Benito Mussolini created a secret scientific body — "Gabinetto RS/33" — under Guglielmo Marconi to study it. No copy of any RS/33 record has ever been located in the Archivio Centrale dello Stato or any other official archive; every document traces to a single anonymous sender known only as "Mr X". This archive admits the file as a documented case of disputed papers, not as a documented landing.
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AL-26006 // Extra-terrestrials // also tagged
The Grusch Whistleblower Complaint and the 2023 Congressional Testimony
On the twenty-sixth of July 2023, former Air Force major and intelligence officer David Charles Grusch testified under oath to a House Oversight subcommittee that he had been informed, in the course of official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering programme kept from congressional oversight. His underlying complaint to the Intelligence Community Inspector General remains classified and unpublished; what exists publicly is the sworn testimony, his written statement, a congressional office's account of the ICIG finding, and a Defense Department Inspector General reprisal report that did not substantiate retaliation. The Pentagon's own historical review, published in 2024, reached findings directly opposed to the reverse-engineering allegations.
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MY-26005 // Cold Cases // also tagged
Operation Animal Mutilation — the Rommel Report and the FBI Cattle-Mutilation Files
Between March 1979 and June 1980 two official responses to the American cattle-mutilation panic were recorded — a narrowly-scoped FBI investigation limited to Indian lands in New Mexico, and "Operation Animal Mutilation", a federally-funded state inquiry run by former FBI agent Kenneth M. Rommel Jr. out of the First Judicial District Attorney's office. Both concluded the damage was predator and scavenger activity on animals that had generally died of natural causes. The FBI file is public at vault.fbi.gov; Rommel's June 1980 report was never a federal publication and survives mainly through library copies and transcriptions.
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CS-26008 // Project Stargate
Project Palladium
Project Palladium was a Cold War CIA electronic-warfare programme, founded around 1960 by engineer S. Eugene "Gene" Poteat, that intercepted an enemy radar's own signal, passed it through a variable delay line, and re-transmitted it to inject fully controllable "ghost aircraft" into Soviet and Soviet-client air-defence radars. Its existence rests on Poteat's own published firsthand accounts and a declassified CIA Studies in Intelligence article; the popular claim that Palladium "manufactured UFOs" is a secondary interpretation Poteat's accounts do not make.
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CS-26006 // Project Stargate
The 1983 "Energy Balloon" Consciousness-Projection Document
The widely-shared "1983 CIA energy balloon document" is two records, not one. The build instructions for the "Resonant Energy Balloon" appear in a 1977 Monroe Institute training workbook; the 1983 item is a US Army INSCOM assessment of the Gateway Process by LTC Wayne M. McDonnell, which describes the same technique as a protective measure for anyone attempting an out-of-body state. Both were declassified in the CIA's 2003 release of the STARGATE archive.
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CS-26007 // Secret Societies & Occult Orders
The Count of Saint-Germain — the Man Who Refused to Die
The Count of Saint-Germain was a real eighteenth-century courtier, musician, chemist and diplomat of unknown origin who moved through the courts of London, Paris, The Hague and Schleswig between roughly 1745 and 1784, and who let it be believed he was centuries old. His death is recorded in the church register of St. Nicolai, Eckernförde, on the twenty-seventh of February 1784. The immortality is legend; the man, his court activity and the bafflement of his contemporaries are documented in letters, diplomatic records and memoirs.
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UF-26009 // Disc / Saucer // also tagged
Project Sign
Project Sign was the United States Air Force's first formal study of unidentified flying objects, run by the Technical Intelligence Division of Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB. It evaluated 243 reported sightings and concluded in its February 1949 final report that no definite and conclusive evidence was yet available that would prove or disprove the objects as real aircraft of unknown configuration. The report is declassified and publicly available; the far more famous "Estimate of the Situation" said to have preceded it is not, and its existence rests on testimony rather than on any retrievable document.
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CS-26005 // MK-Ultra
The MK-Ultra Program
MK-Ultra was a CIA umbrella programme of covert human research into drugs and behavioural modification, formally approved by Director Allen Dulles on the thirteenth of April 1953 and running its main experimental phase through 1964 across 149 subprojects at some 80 institutions. Most records were destroyed on the order of CIA Director Richard Helms in 1973; the programme became public through the 1975 Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee, and roughly 20,000 surviving financial pages were released after a 1977 FOIA discovery. It is a closed, declassified historical programme — no successor of the same name operates.
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