Agencies
This site publishes the first full-text transcriptions of government documents that confirm specific facts the public does not know are confirmed.
Understanding which agency produced a document, which agency released it through FOIA, and which agency returned no records are three different pieces of the same puzzle. This index organizes the documents on this site by the government bodies that created them or were asked about them.
Central Intelligence Agency
The CIA is the source agency for three of the five founding documents on this site. The MKUltra record, the ARTICHOKE record, and the 1950 psychological warfare study all originated within CIA programs or were produced through CIA coordination with other agencies. The CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room, known as the CREST database, holds millions of pages of declassified CIA records. The CIA destroyed a significant portion of the MKUltra record in 1973 on the order of Director Richard Helms. What remains is acknowledged by the CIA to be incomplete.
The CIA FOIA Reading Room is searchable at cia.gov/readingroom. Specific document numbers can be used to locate individual records. Some collections, including the MKUltra and ARTICHOKE collections, are organized into named groups within the reading room.
United States Air Force / Air Defense Command
The Air Force operated Montauk Air Force Station as part of the Air Defense Command continental radar network from 1953 to 1969, with the installation formally transferred in 1981. Air Force records covering the operational period are held at the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base. FOIA requests for post-decommission records have returned no documents. The Air Force has acknowledged classified activities at the site during its operational period.
Air Force historical records are held at the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Records can be requested through the AFHRA research portal. Post-decommission records for Montauk AFS have not been released.
United States Army Corps of Engineers
The Army Corps of Engineers conducted environmental remediation surveys of Camp Hero following its transfer to New York State as a public park. The 2022 Final Decision Document spans 121 pages and is the most detailed physical documentation of the site infrastructure available in the public record. It confirms the existence of sealed underground bunkers, documents the battery emplacements and FPS-35 radar system, and excludes Areas H and K from the main investigation on separate CERCLA grounds.
The Army Corps Final Decision Document for Camp Hero FUDS Project C02NY002403 is a public record available through the NYSDEC. Additional Army Corps records can be requested through the New York District FOIA office.
United States Patent and Trademark Office
The USPTO is the granting authority for US Patent 3,951,134, filed in 1974 by Robert G. Malech of Dorne and Margolin Inc. The USPTO examines patent applications for novelty, non-obviousness, and utility before granting them. The approval of the Malech patent indicates that its examiners found the described device met those criteria. Patent records are public documents and are not subject to FOIA because they are never classified.
All USPTO records are public. Patent US3951134 is searchable through patents.google.com and the USPTO search portal at patents.uspto.gov. The full text, claims, abstract, and original drawings are available without restriction.
Defense Intelligence Agency
The DIA does not appear as a source agency for any document currently indexed on this site. It appears in the FOIA record for Montauk Air Force Station because a 2021 FOIA request to the DIA seeking records on research activities at Camp Hero was closed with a determination of no records. That response is part of the factual record for the Montauk document.
DIA FOIA responses for Camp Hero and Montauk AFS have returned no records. The DIA Electronic Reading Room is available at dia.mil.
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