Restricted Programmes & Archives
Investigations into concealed institutional activity and specific files deliberately kept out of public view. We dig through the surviving documentation to uncover what was actually hidden. By understanding how the information was contained, we can usually determine exactly what that secrecy was designed to protect.
Project Sunshine – The Secret ‘Body Snatching’ Programme
Project Sunshine was a classified US programme to measure nuclear fallout by collecting children's remains without consent. Internal memos reveal the secrecy was not for national security, but to hide the 'body snatching' from the public and avoid lawsuits.
Condor’s Ghost – How a Cold War Assassination Program Was Rebranded
On September 16, 1976, the U.S. State Department was ordered to "take no further action" on a warning against Condor's assassination plots. Five days later, a car bomb exploded on Embassy Row. This wasn't an intelligence failure.
Cicada 3301 – The Puzzle No Agency Will Claim
Between 2012 and 2014, someone ran a global cryptographic treasure hunt that stumped codebreakers, left intelligence agencies silent, and has never been explained. All we have left are the puzzles, the gaps in the record, and a trail that vanishes every time you get close.
The Archive That Isn’t There – Investigating the Gaps in KGB History
One side burned their archives on the way out the door. The other side blacks out entire pages of what remains. When everyone is hiding the same kind of secrets, from the same period of time, it pays to ask why.
The Invisible Architects – Cold War Ops They Erased
Some of the Cold War’s smartest players weren’t superpowers. They were small nations running psychological ops, outmanoeuvring the giants, and vanishing their tracks. Here's how they did it.
An Unseen Threat – The Strange Death of Psychedelic Science
From CIA experiments to institutional censorship, this investigation tracks how ego dissolution went from medical breakthrough to taboo, and why it's still avoided in today's psychedelic revival.
The Third Secret of Fátima – Shadows Behind the Vision
What happens when a vision is sealed for 83 years? The Third Secret of Fátima remains a source of contradiction, control, and religious unease. What was really withheld and why?
MK-Ultra and the Ashram Circuit – Echoes of Control in the Age of Awakening
Can a mind control programme survive by disguising itself as a spiritual awakening? This investigation follows the remnants of MK-Ultra through the ashrams, communes, and consciousness movements of Cold War America.
Operation Paperclip – The Moral Inversion Hidden in Plain Sight
What happens when justice is negotiated and villains become visionaries? Operation Paperclip exposes a legacy of moral inversion, erasure, and Cold War necessity. Where the files raise more questions than answers.
The War on Wonder – How Psychedelic Research Was Crushed
Psychedelic research wasn’t just neglected - it was dismantled. What began as scientific curiosity became a threat to power, buried under policy, paranoia, and silence.