COVERT OPERATIONS

OSA-001PROJECT MKULTRACONFIRMEDCIA mind-control research program OSA-003HAVANA SYNDROMECONTESTED"Anomalous health incidents" among U.S. personnel OSA-004OPERATION NORTHWOODSCONFIRMEDThe false-flag plan the Joint Chiefs actually signed OSA-009COINTELPROCONFIRMEDThe FBI's covert war on domestic dissent OSA-011OPERATION PAPERCLIPCONFIRMEDNazi scientists, freshly laundered dossiers OSA-013IRAN–CONTRACONFIRMEDMissiles to Tehran, money to Managua OSA-014OPERATION SEA-SPRAYCONFIRMEDThe Navy fogged San Francisco with bacteria OSA-018AREA 51CONFIRMEDThe secret base was real. The aliens were airplanes. OSA-020OPERATION MOCKINGBIRDCONTESTEDThe CIA and the press: confirmed conduct, unproven code name OSA-021OPERATION GLADIOCONTESTEDNATO's secret stay-behind armies, and Italy's Years of Lead OSA-035HAARPDEBUNKEDThe Alaskan antenna farm blamed for everyone's weather OSA-052OPERATION AJAXCONFIRMEDThe CIA–MI6 coup that removed Iran's elected prime minister OSA-053OPERATION PBSUCCESSCONFIRMEDGuatemala's president overthrown by a radio station and a bluff OSA-054OPERATION CONDORCONFIRMEDSix dictatorships, one shared kill list OSA-056OPERATION MINCEMEATCONFIRMEDThe corpse that misdirected the German army OSA-059PROJECT AZORIANCONFIRMEDThe CIA stole a Soviet submarine off the ocean floor OSA-060ACOUSTIC KITTYCONFIRMEDThe CIA wired a live cat for sound OSA-069THE OCTOBER SURPRISECONTESTEDDid a campaign bargain to keep hostages in captivity? OSA-102OPERATION MONGOOSECONFIRMEDThe CIA's campaign to overthrow Cuba, including the assassination plots OSA-104OPERATION POPEYECONFIRMEDWeather as a weapon, five years of secret cloud seeding over Vietnam OSA-107PROJECT STARGATEDEBUNKEDThe CIA and Army funded remote viewing for two decades OSA-112OPERATION CHAOSCONFIRMEDA domestic surveillance programme run by the agency banned from domestic work OSA-113THE PHOENIX PROGRAMCONFIRMEDOver 26,000 dead by the programme's own official count OSA-114CRYPTO AGCONFIRMEDHalf a century reading the secret traffic of allies and adversaries alike OSA-124DARK ALLIANCECONTESTEDA journalist linked CIA-backed Contras to crack cocaine, and lost everything OSA-139OPERATION UNDERWORLDCONFIRMEDThe Navy recruited organised crime to secure the New York waterfront OSA-152OPERATION CYCLONECONFIRMEDBillions in weapons to the Afghan mujahideen, routed through Pakistan OSA-153THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICASCONFIRMEDA US Army school whose own manuals recommended torture and blackmail OSA-155PROJECT ARTICHOKECONFIRMEDThe CIA interrogation programme that preceded MKULTRA OSA-156OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAXCONFIRMEDDosing members of the public with LSD to watch what happened OSA-157THE KILLING OF PATRICE LUMUMBACONFIRMEDCongo's first prime minister, killed with Belgian officers present OSA-158CHILE 1973CONFIRMEDThree years of covert action against an elected government OSA-159THE LETELIER ASSASSINATIONCONFIRMEDA former Chilean minister killed by Pinochet's secret police, in the American capital OSA-160STUXNETCONFIRMEDSoftware built to physically destroy Iranian centrifuges OSA-164THE TORTURE REPORTCONFIRMEDThe CIA's detention programme, documented by the committee overseeing it OSA-165EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONCONFIRMEDDetainees flown to third countries for interrogation, tracked by flight logs