7 CIA and US Army Secrets Revealed in Recent Years
After decades-long speculation, here are some of the key secrets of CIA and US government special projects that occurred years ago and were revealed to the public only in recent years:
7. 1794 Project
In 2012, the United States Air Force released numerous documents from a secret program to build a flying saucer-shaped spacecraft to combat possible Soviet bombing. The most ambitious project, called Project 1794, was started in the 1950s by a team of engineers who wanted to build an aircraft capable of traveling at supersonic speeds and high altitudes.
The released documents show that engineers predicted that the aircraft could reach Match 4 speed (four times faster than sound speed) and reach an altitude of 30, 000 meters. The project value, corrected for today's cost, would be $ 26 million. However, the project was canceled in December 1961 after testing revealed that the structure was aerodynamically unstable.
6. Iceworm Project
In 1960, the United States Army embarked on a secret mission to build a series of moving Greenland ice floe sites for nuclear missile launches. The objective was to combat possible missiles launched by the Soviet Union, and the mission code name was Project Iceworm.
However, a scientific-purpose disguise by the name of Camp Centrury has been made publicly available for Americans to build their facilities smoothly. Underground buildings, housing, kitchens, laboratories, supply rooms, and communications center, among many other facilities, were actually built.
The base operated in secret for seven years and was totally canceled after six years, when excess ice created unstable living conditions. Today, the wreckage of the Iceworm Project is buried in the arctic ice.
5. MK-ULTRA Project
During the Cold War years, the CIA began a secret project called MK-ULTRA, which aimed to investigate the potentials of controlling the human mind. The scientists involved analyzed the effects of hypnosis, biological agents and some drugs (such as LSD) on humans.
Some historians say the project was designed to develop a type of system that could "program" the brain - and could be applied to potential killers. However, in 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA Project documents to be completely destroyed.
4. Area 51
Certainly, one of the most famous puzzles involving the American government and aliens, catching the attention of theorists of all kinds with their assumptions and superstitions. The area that is located in Nevada, near Las Vegas, has been recognized by the CIA as a testing environment for a variety of spy and reconnaissance aircraft - and only that. According to them, the camp is strictly military, unconnected with anything paranormal or "out of this world."
3. Grudge Project
Although Area 51 is not supposed to have any official links with aliens, another American project named Grudge was strictly designed to study beings from other planets - and more specifically, their ships. Created in 1949, the purpose of the program was to study unidentified flying objects. The most skeptical say that the Grudge Project did not conduct real research and just wanted to unmask other UFO studies and theories.
2. Paperclip Operation
In September 1946, the American president created a project called Operation Paperclip, which aimed to attract scientists from Nazi Germany to the United States after World War II. German scientists were actually recruited and migrated to the US, ensuring that their knowledge did not migrate to the Soviet Union or East Germany.
The most famous scientist recruited was rocket developer Wernher von Braun, who later assisted the country in lunar missions.
1. Manhattan Project
One of the best-known secret investigative programs is the Manhattan Project, which unfortunately was focused on producing the world's first atomic bombs. The project began in 1939 and involved physicists and other scientists in the design of nuclear potential bombs.
Several tests were conducted in the United States themselves until scientists found the best formulas and combinations for a wider range of nuclear explosions. A month after the tests were successful, the well-known atomic bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
* Originally posted on 11/15/2013.
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