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-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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UF-26007 // Disc / Saucer // also tagged
The Wilbert Smith Memo (1950)
On the twenty-first of November 1950, Wilbert B. Smith, a senior radio engineer at Canada's Department of Transport, wrote a memorandum titled "Geo-Magnetics" recommending a classified study of flying saucers. Reporting discreet inquiries made through the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Smith wrote that saucers were real and were "the most highly classified subject in the United States Government." The memo led directly to Project Magnet, approved on the second of December 1950.
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CS-26004 // MK-Ultra
The Universe 25 Experiment (Calhoun's Mouse Utopia)
Universe 25 was a mouse-population experiment run by the ethologist John B. Calhoun at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, begun on the ninth of July 1968 with four breeding pairs in an enclosure of unlimited food, water and space. The colony grew to roughly 2,200 mice, then suffered total social breakdown and went extinct. The experiment is genuine and peer-published, but its popular framing as proof of human "societal decay" is interpretation, not finding.
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AL-26001 // Extra-terrestrials // also tagged
The Alleged UAP "Legacy" Crash-Retrieval Program
In sworn testimony to a US House Oversight subcommittee on the twenty-sixth of July 2023, former intelligence officer David Grusch stated he had been informed of a multi-decade UAP crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering programme, and that "non-human" craft and "biologics" had been recovered — but he gave no specifics in open session and said his knowledge came from interviewing others, not personal observation. The US government's own All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) reported in March 2024 that it found no empirical evidence any such programme ever recovered or reverse-engineered off-world technology. As of June 2026 no primary document confirming recovered craft or bodies has been publicly released.
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CS-26003 // Project Stargate
U.S. Military 'Psychic Warfare' and Psychotronics Programs
From 1972 to 1995 the U.S. intelligence community funded a documented effort to test whether "remote viewing" could collect intelligence, a programme that ended its life as the Defense Intelligence Agency's STAR GATE. The CIA-commissioned 1995 evaluation by the American Institutes for Research found laboratory effects statistically significant but operationally useless and recommended termination. In parallel, U.S. Army officers publicly theorised about offensive "psychotronic" mind-influence weapons.
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CS-26002 // Secret Societies & Occult Orders
Jack Parsons — Occult Rituals, the Agape Lodge, and the 1952 Death of a JPL Founder
Jack Parsons (1914–1952) was a self-taught rocket chemist central to the Caltech group that became NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who also led a Pasadena Thelemic occult order. He lost his Top Secret clearance in 1952 after an FBI investigation into documents removed from Hughes Aircraft, and died on the seventeenth of June 1952 in an explosion in his home laboratory, attributed by authorities to fulminate of mercury. Murder and suicide theories persist but are unsupported by any primary record located here.
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CS-26001 // Operation Mockingbird
Operation Mockingbird
From the late 1940s through the 1970s the CIA held covert relationships with US journalists and news organisations, confirmed by the 1976 Church Committee. The popular codename "Mockingbird" is contested in the primary record; the programme it describes is not.
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