Archive
22 confirmed · 1 alleged · 23 operations total
- Cold War · United States CONFIRMED CIA
Operation MKUltra
The CIA's covert program testing mind control on unwitting subjects, 1953–1973.
Mind Control Human Experimentation - Cold War · Iran, United Kingdom CONFIRMED CIA / MI6
Operation Ajax
A joint CIA-MI6 operation to overthrow Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister and restore the Shah to absolute power.
Regime Change Foreign Interference - Cold War · United States CONFIRMED CIA
Operation Mockingbird
A CIA program to recruit journalists at major US news outlets and plant pro-Agency narratives across domestic and foreign media.
Media Manipulation Propaganda - Cold War · United States, Cuba CONFIRMED CIA / Joint Chiefs of Staff
Operation Northwoods
A Joint Chiefs proposal to stage false-flag terrorist attacks on American soil to justify a US invasion of Cuba. Rejected by Kennedy.
False Flag Proposed Operation - Modern · USA, UK, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Brazil, UAE, India CONFIRMED MSS
Operation Cloud Hopper (APT10)
Chinese MSS-linked hacking group APT10 penetrated managed IT service providers globally, using them as conduits to exfiltrate data from at least 45 companies and government agencies across 12 countries.
Cyber Operations Industrial Espionage Supply Chain Attack - Modern · UK, USA, Germany, France, Spain CONFIRMED GCHQ / NSA
Operation TEMPORA
GCHQ tapped transatlantic fibre-optic cables to intercept internet traffic in bulk, sharing raw data with the NSA in the largest known surveillance operation in history.
Mass Surveillance Signals Intelligence Cable Tapping - Modern · USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand CONFIRMED NSA / GCHQ
PRISM
NSA mass surveillance program secretly collecting internet communications from major US tech companies, exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013.
Mass Surveillance Signals Intelligence Internet Surveillance - Modern · USA, Canada, UK, India, Israel, Taiwan CONFIRMED PLA
APT1 / Comment Crew (PLA Unit 61398)
Mandiant's landmark 2013 report exposed PLA Unit 61398 operating from a Shanghai tower block as the source of systematic cyber-espionage against at least 141 organisations across 20 industries over seven years.
Cyber Operations Industrial Espionage Signals Intelligence - Modern · UK CONFIRMED MI5
Operation Spy Cops (NPOIU Undercover Units)
MI5-linked Metropolitan Police undercover officers infiltrated UK political activist groups for decades, forming false identities and sexual relationships with targets.
Domestic Surveillance Infiltration Political Policing - Modern · USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Peru CONFIRMED SVR
Operation Ghost Stories (Illegals Programme)
FBI dismantled a decade-long SVR 'illegals' network of ten deep-cover Russian agents living as ordinary Americans, tasked with penetrating US government and policy circles.
Human Intelligence Deep Cover Sleeper Agents - Modern · Iran CONFIRMED CIA / NSA
Operation Olympic Games (Stuxnet)
The NSA and Israeli Unit 8200's joint cyberweapon that physically destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges — the first known state-deployed offensive cyberattack.
Cyberwarfare Covert Action Surveillance - Cold War · Italy, Belgium, France, West Germany, Greece, Turkey CONFIRMED CIA / NATO
Operation Gladio
NATO's secret Cold War stay-behind network across 15 European countries, linked to arms caches, political violence, and the Italian Years of Lead.
Covert Action Paramilitary Operations False Flag - Reagan Era · United States, Nicaragua, Iran CONFIRMED CIA
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Reagan administration's secret scheme to sell arms to Iran and funnel profits to Nicaraguan Contras, in direct violation of a Congressional prohibition.
Covert Action Sanctions Violation Narcotics - Reagan Era · New Zealand, France CONFIRMED DGSE
Operation Satanique (Rainbow Warrior Bombing)
French DGSE agents sank Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, killing photographer Fernando Pereira, to prevent the vessel from documenting French nuclear tests in the Pacific.
Sabotage Assassination State Terrorism - Cold War · USA, UK, West Germany CONFIRMED KGB
Operation RYAN
KGB and GRU's largest peacetime intelligence operation, tasked with detecting preparations for a US nuclear first strike — contributing to the 1983 war scare, the most dangerous nuclear standoff since Cuba.
Intelligence Collection Nuclear War Preparedness Signals Intelligence - Cold War · Afghanistan, Pakistan CONFIRMED CIA
Operation Cyclone
The CIA's decade-long covert programme arming Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union — the most expensive covert action in the Agency's history.
Paramilitary Operations Covert Action Regime Change - Cold War · Lebanon, France, Italy, Norway, Cyprus, UK, Libya CONFIRMED Mossad
Operation Wrath of God
Mossad assassination campaign targeting members of Black September and PLO operatives responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre, spanning over two decades.
Assassination Targeted Killing Counterterrorism - Cold War · United States CONFIRMED FBI
COINTELPRO
The FBI's secret domestic counterintelligence program targeting civil rights leaders, Black nationalists, and anti-war groups from 1956 to 1971.
Domestic Surveillance Political Repression Counterintelligence - Cold War · Iran, Vatican, Libya, Argentina, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland CONFIRMED BND / CIA
Operation RUBIKON (Crypto AG)
CIA and West German BND secretly owned Crypto AG, the world's leading encryption company, allowing them to read the secret communications of over 100 governments for decades.
Signals Intelligence Cryptography Industrial Espionage - Cold War · United States ALLEGED CIA
CIA Involvement in the JFK Assassination
Allegations that CIA officers or CIA-linked Cuban exile networks were involved in the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy — examined in light of the 2025 document release.
Assassination Domestic Operations - Cold War · Guatemala CONFIRMED CIA
Operation PBSUCCESS
The CIA's 1954 covert operation that overthrew Guatemala's democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz through psychological warfare, propaganda, and paramilitary force.
Regime Change Covert Action Propaganda - Cold War · Iran CONFIRMED MI6 / CIA
Operation Boot (Anglo-American Coup, Iran)
MI6 and CIA jointly orchestrated the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, restoring Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to power.
Coup d'état Regime Change Covert Action - Post-WWII · USA, West Germany CONFIRMED OSS / CIA
Operation Paperclip
US Office of Strategic Services and Army secretly recruited over 1,600 Nazi German scientists, engineers, and technicians — including war criminals — to work for American defence, space, and intelligence programmes.
Recruitment Technology Transfer Psychological Operations
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