A declassified archive of confirmed and alleged intelligence operations — CIA, MI6, Mossad, NSA, FBI, GCHQ, KGB/FSB and beyond.https://blackopsarchive.com/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/cointelpro/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/cointelpro/The FBI's secret domestic counterintelligence program targeting civil rights leaders, Black nationalists, and anti-war groups from 1956 to 1971.Mon, 08 Mar 1971 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/iran-contra/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/iran-contra/The Reagan administration's secret scheme to sell arms to Iran and funnel profits to Nicaraguan Contras, in direct violation of a Congressional prohibition.Mon, 03 Nov 1986 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/jfk-cia-theory/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/jfk-cia-theory/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.Fri, 22 Nov 1963 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/mkultra/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/mkultra/The CIA's covert program testing mind control on unwitting subjects, 1953–1973.Wed, 01 Jun 1977 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-cyclone/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/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.Tue, 03 Jul 1979 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-ajax/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-ajax/A joint CIA-MI6 operation to overthrow Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister and restore the Shah to absolute power.Wed, 19 Aug 1953 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-gladio/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/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.Fri, 03 Aug 1990 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-mockingbird/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-mockingbird/A CIA program to recruit journalists at major US news outlets and plant pro-Agency narratives across domestic and foreign media.Thu, 01 Sep 1977 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-northwoods/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/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.Tue, 13 Mar 1962 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-pbsuccess/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-pbsuccess/The CIA's 1954 covert operation that overthrew Guatemala's democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz through psychological warfare, propaganda, and paramilitary force.Sun, 27 Jun 1954 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/stuxnet/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/stuxnet/The NSA and Israeli Unit 8200's joint cyberweapon that physically destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges — the first known state-deployed offensive cyberattack.Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/apt1-comment-crew/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/apt1-comment-crew/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.Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-boot/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-boot/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.Wed, 19 Aug 1953 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-cloud-hopper/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-cloud-hopper/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.Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-ghost-stories/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-ghost-stories/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.Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-paperclip/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/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.Thu, 20 Sep 1945 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-prism/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-prism/NSA mass surveillance program secretly collecting internet communications from major US tech companies, exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013.Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-rubikon/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-rubikon/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.Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-ryan/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/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.Fri, 01 May 1981 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-satanique/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-satanique/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.Wed, 10 Jul 1985 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-spy-cops/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-spy-cops/MI5-linked Metropolitan Police undercover officers infiltrated UK political activist groups for decades, forming false identities and sexual relationships with targets.Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-wrath-of-god/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/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.Mon, 16 Oct 1972 00:00:00 GMThttps://blackopsarchive.com/articles/operation-tempora/https://blackopsarchive.com/articles/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.Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT