On the record On the record
Confirmed by released government records or official investigations. Not a theory any more, though the theories around it may go further than the files do.
On the record1953–1973 · Spies & agenciesMKUltra: the CIA's mind-control program
Mind control, secret LSD tests and a director who ordered the files shredded. The core of this one is in the Senate record.
On the record1962 · Military secretsOperation Northwoods: the fake-attack plan
A real Pentagon memo proposed staged attacks to justify war with Cuba. It was rejected, and it stayed secret for 35 years.
On the record1956–1971 · Spies & agenciesCOINTELPRO: the FBI's war on activists
Forged letters, planted stories, infiltrators. A break-in at a small FBI office exposed it, and the Senate confirmed it.
On the record1964 · Military secretsThe Gulf of Tonkin attack that wasn't
A naval clash in the dark helped launch a war. Decades later, an NSA history concluded the second attack didn't happen.
On the record1945–1959 · Military secretsOperation Paperclip: Nazi scientists in America
The rocket team that took America to the Moon included men who had built weapons for Hitler. That part is history.
On the record1932–1972 · Science, space & the strangeThe Tuskegee syphilis study
Government doctors studied untreated syphilis for four decades, even after penicillin became the standard cure.
On the record1970s–1995 · Spies & agenciesStargate: the Pentagon's psychic spies
Remote viewers at Fort Meade tried to spy with their minds. The program is real; whether it worked is another matter.