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1962Justification for US Military Intervention in CubaIn March 1962 the Joint Chiefs of Staff forwarded the Secretary of Defense a report on creating a justification for US military intervention in Cuba, including proposals for staged attacks on American targets. The record runs to 212 pages of JCS papers.Joint Chiefs of Staff · 13 March 1962 · 212 pages · Level 1 · scansFree to readAvailable in printRead it free

1983Analysis and Assessment of Gateway ProcessA memorandum written at Fort George G. Meade by a lieutenant colonel of Military Intelligence, assessing whether the Gateway Experience could do what it claimed and concluding that it was plausible in terms of its essential objectives.Department of the Army · 9 June 1983 · 29 pages · Level 1 · scansFree to readAvailable in printRead it free

1977Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral ModificationThe joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research at which the Director of Central Intelligence answered for MKULTRA. Its appendices reprint the Church Committee's account of the programme and CIA memoranda of the Agency's own.United States Senate · 3 August 1977 · 173 pages · Level 1 · scansFree to readAvailable in printRead it free

1975Domestic Activities of the Directorate of Science and TechnologyThe chapter in which a presidential commission publicly acknowledged that the CIA had tested drugs on people who did not know they were being tested, and that a man had died in 1953 after being given LSD without his knowledge.Commission on CIA Activities within the United States · June 1975 · 7 pages · Level 1 · scansFree to readAvailable in printRead it free

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