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Cold War / CIA Covert Operations
In 1974, a ship built by Howard Hughes lowered a three-mile cable into the Pacific and tried to pull a dead Soviet nuclear submarine off the ocean floor. The declassified record of what actually happened is still mostly buried.
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Psychic Warfare
Project Stargate: The Army's Twenty-Year Remote Viewing Program
NSA Surveillance
SHAMROCK and MINARET: When the NSA Read Every Telegram in America
Mind Control
MKULTRA Subproject 68: The Doctor Who Erased People's Minds
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