Background The following description was taken from recently declassified government documents, obtained by The Black Vault, about Project Corrode: During the summer of 1952, a Study Group under the auspices of Lincoln Laboratory conducted a study of the defense of the United States against enemy air attack. This Summer Study Group recommended the establishment of a distant early-warning (DEW) line in the arctic region to provide warning of impending air attack sufficiently early so that effective defense measures could be initiated before enemy aircraft entered vital areas. Late in 1952, PROJECT COUNTER CHANGE (now PROJECT CORRODE) was established under Air Force cognizance to provide for…
Author: John Greenewald
According to a declassified document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): Special project 908 is a major national project to collect and disseminate data about China’s littoral region in order to improve China’s ocean management capabilities. It is also known as The Comprehensive Survey and Evaluation of China’s Coastal Waters Project. Special Project 908 was approved by the State Council in 2003. According to Xinhua, Special Project 908 has resulted in the collection of highly precise data on China’s coastline, renewable energy sources, and maritime disaster risks, as well as in the creation of new topographic maps of China’s Coastline. In 2013, ChinaDaily…
How does the Selective Service system aka “The Draft” work? Parents across the country fear that as world tensions rise, their children will one day be drafted similar to the Vietnam era. Although not done since that time, many wonder if one day, we may have to do it again. The Selective Service System maintains a procedure in place to enact the “draft” and it is done on a “lottery” based system. Below, you will find the Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) for how it would all work. Excerpt: This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) provides detailed description of the functions, processes, and…
According to Wikipedia: The Utah Data Center, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. Its purpose is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), though its precise mission is classified. The National Security Agency (NSA) leads operations at the facility as the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence. It is located at Camp Williams near Bluffdale, Utah, between Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake and…
Declassified Manned Orbiting Laboratory/DORIAN Illustrations The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was a 1960s Air Force program with the ostensible mission to place military personnel in orbit to conduct scientific experiments to determine the “military usefulness” of placing man into space and the techniques and procedures for doing so if the need ever arose. The actual, classified, mission of the MOL program was to place a manned surveillance satellite into orbit. At the time, several military and contractor studies estimated that manned surveillance satellites could acquire photographic coverage of the Soviet Union with resolution better than the best system at the…