Background The below archive is connected with YEARS worth or research in connection with the MKULTRA CIA Collection. After years of having a 4 CD-ROM set archived, one researcher by the name of Oscar Diggs, went through and painstakingly put together a list of “missing” documents that were said to be on the CD’s, but were not. I was given this list by Mr. Diggs in 2016. That began a near 3 year struggle with the CIA just to prove that list was accurate, let alone, getting a copy of the missing pages. Through the course of months that stretched to…
Author: John Greenewald
Chemical Agent Fact Book, May 2010 [222 Pages, 34.5MB] Background This document was originally denied IN FULL under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case 2014-STFO-030 (DHS). Here is the FOIA Log reference to my case, showing multiple FOIA exemptions and the fact the document was denied in full: Although I appealed that decision, it was never processed and I only discovered that years later when asking for an update to the appeal. I filed again in 2018, and was pleased to have received the document nearly in full, and rather quickly. The document is…
Background According to the Washington Post: The Secret Service has vacated its command post inside Trump Tower in Manhattan following a dispute between the government and President Trump’s company over the terms of a lease for the space, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Previously, the Secret Service had stationed its command post — which houses supervisors and backup agents on standby in case of an emergency — in a Trump Tower unit one floor below the president’s apartment. But in early July, the post was relocated to a trailer on the sidewalk, more than 50 floors below,…
Background Kryptos is an encrypted sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the encrypted messages it bears. Of the four messages, three have been solved, with the fourth remaining one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. The sculpture continues to provide a diversion for cryptanalysts, both amateur and professional, who are attempting to decrypt the final section. The below represents multiple FOIA requests to get documents on the sculpture…
Background The Projecting Electronic Ray appears to have been an invention first created around 1936. It was a contract by the U.S. Army and an inventor by the name of William Marchant / Marchant Associates, Inc. Apparently, the inventory could not fulfill his part of the contract, so it was terminated. In December of 1950, the Director of the CIA, Walter Smith, ordered an evaluation of the invention. The “ray” was supposed to ultimately be capable of delivering powerful electronic energy to a distance in excess of a few hundred yards to cut trees, minerals and metals, and to destroy…