This is a curated list of real-world covert programs and operations confirmed through FOIA releases, Congressional hearings, whistleblower leaks, and declassified archives. These operations were once denied and ridiculed—until they were proven true.
Mind control program by the CIA using LSD, hypnosis, trauma, and electroshock on unwitting civilians.
Pentagon plan to stage false-flag terror attacks on Americans to justify war with Cuba. Approved by Joint Chiefs in 1962.
FBI program targeting civil rights groups (MLK, Black Panthers, AIM). Used infiltration, smear campaigns, and assassination.
A mysterious group investigated in the 1980s for child trafficking, ritual abuse, and links to U.S. intelligence. Case quietly shut down.
NATO stay-behind armies that staged terrorist attacks in Europe to control public opinion during the Cold War.
NSA programs from the 1950s-70s intercepting all telegrams and monitoring American citizens without warrants.
U.S. program to import over 1,600 Nazi scientists (including war criminals) into NASA, CIA, and biological research.
Global surveillance network between U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to monitor global communications.
CIA domestic spying on antiwar activists and dissidents from 1967–1974, in violation of the agency’s charter.
Alleged CIA program to infiltrate U.S. media with journalists and editors paid to push agency narratives.