Central Intelligence Agency

The Files

• The Air Force as Independent State — Its simultaneous creation contributes to the theory’s picture of 1947 as a deep-state founding moment.
• Targeted Individuals — Often linked in TI theories to covert experimentation, behavioral influence, or legacy mind-control programs.
• Operation Northwoods — Would have been involved in execution
• Project STARGATE — Oversight
• The PRISM Total Recall — Later drawn into the theory through smart-device hacking and microphone-activation stories such as Weeping Angel.
• Did the CIA Kill Bob Marley? — Drafted a covert-action proposal concerning the 1976 Jamaican election
• The CIA Revenge — Agency alleged in the theory to have sought revenge or institutional self-protection through assassination.
• The Snowden as a Limited Subversion — Snowden’s earlier employer, giving the theory its first layer of embeddedness.
• Operation Mockingbird — Operated the media influence program
• The Castro as CIA Asset — The agency most commonly alleged to have cultivated, misread, or weaponized Castro’s rise.
• Extraordinary Rendition and the Black Sites — Operated the detention sites and the transfer programme
• CIA Document 1035-960 — Issued the dispatch through its Chief of Clandestine Services
• Operation Mongoose and "Elimination by Illumination" — Supplied the operational capability through Task Force W
• The Plame Affair — Employed Plame under cover and referred the disclosure to the Justice Department
• UFO Sightings as Spy-Plane Cover — Published the internal history acknowledging misleading public explanations
• George H. W. Bush in Dallas (1963) — Identified a second George Bush as the person referred to in the memorandum
• Operation Ajax and the Regime-Change Template — Directed the coup and denied it for sixty years before the 2013 release
• JFK Assassination — Alleged involvement
• The Kyshtym Disaster — Had assembled a clear picture by around 1960 from informants and aerial photography, and did not make it public
• Majestic 12 — Multiple alleged members
• The Golden Triangle Drug Run — Managed or oversaw the covert airline and became the central institution in the trafficking allegation.
• Manson CIA Connection — Agency associated with MK-Ultra and later cast as the hidden institutional force behind Manson’s behavioral conditioning or protection.
• John Lennon Assassin (1980) — Accused in the theory of programming Chapman as a sleeper assassin.
• Pope John Paul II Shooting (1981) — In more expansive theories, cast as an agency that either knew more than it admitted or was involved in managing the outcome.
• The Ararat Anomaly — Held and analysed the imagery, which was classified for decades and later released
• The Area 51 Oxcart — Sponsor of the A-12 OXCART program and later source of declassified program histories.
• The LSD Water Supply — Agency at the center of MKULTRA and the later environmental-dosing theories.
• MKUltra — Program operator
• The Google Glass (2013) Retinal Scan — Named in the theory as the alleged ultimate recipient of first-person visual data.
• Standard Oil and the Electric Car (Again) — In later retellings, the agency is cast as the enforcer protecting energy-market continuity.
• The Fidel Castro Counter-Strike — Its anti-Castro operations supplied the retaliatory motive base of the theory.
• The TWA 800 Missile Theory — Produced analysis of eyewitness accounts that became central to later controversy.
• The iPhone (2007) and Siri (2010) — The intelligence agency most often named in the theory as the ultimate recipient of biometric data.
• Stolen Uranium: The Apollo, Pennsylvania NUMEC Affair — Agency associated with later assessments that the uranium likely reached Israel.
• Area 51 & Roswell Incident — Oversaw U-2 and classified programs at Groom Lake
• The Beatnik to Hippie Transition as a CIA Social Project — Agency whose documented LSD experiments are used as the factual backbone of the theory.
• British and Meghan Markle — Most commonly named intelligence service in the theory, though no documented evidence is offered by its proponents.
• Bigfoot and the CIA — Cast in the theory as the agency behind a covert wilderness-surveillance creature program.
• The Crack Cocaine CIA Connection — Agency accused of enabling or overlooking Contra-linked cocaine trafficking.
• Deep State Origins — Institution placed at the center of deep-state origin theories.
• Iran-Contra Affair — Facilitated operations
• LSD as a Chemical Leash — Agency whose real LSD experimentation under MK-Ultra gave later Orange Sunshine control theories a strong institutional frame.
• X-Files as Soft Disclosure — Later used X-Files branding around UFO documents and thus became symbolically linked to the theory.
• The Phoenix Program — Coordinated and funded the program
• Project Blue Book — Convened the Robertson Panel
• Operation Paperclip — Intelligence exploitation

Connected Figures & Organizations

• Federal Bureau of Investigation · 5 shared
• United States Air Force · 5 shared
• Harry S. Truman · 4 shared
• Allen Dulles · 4 shared
• John F. Kennedy · 3 shared
• National Security Agency · 3 shared
• Sidney Gottlieb · 3 shared
• United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · 3 shared
• Richard Helms · 3 shared
• United States Army · 2 shared
• Edward Snowden · 2 shared
• Lockheed Skunk Works · 2 shared

Timeline

1. 1930Standard Oil and the Electric Car (Again)
2. 1945Operation Paperclip
3. 1947Area 51 & Roswell Incident
4. 1947The Air Force as Independent State
5. 1947Deep State Origins
6. 1947Majestic 12
7. 1949The Ararat Anomaly
8. 1950Operation Mockingbird
9. 1952Project Blue Book
10. 1953The LSD Water Supply
11. 1953LSD as a Chemical Leash
12. 1953MKUltra
13. 1953Operation Ajax and the Regime-Change Template
14. 1955The Beatnik to Hippie Transition as a CIA Social Project
15. 1955UFO Sightings as Spy-Plane Cover
16. 1957Stolen Uranium: The Apollo, Pennsylvania NUMEC Affair
17. 1957The Kyshtym Disaster
18. 1959The Castro as CIA Asset
19. 1961The CIA Revenge
20. 1961The Fidel Castro Counter-Strike
21. 1961Operation Mongoose and "Elimination by Illumination"
22. 1962Operation Northwoods
23. 1962The Area 51 Oxcart
24. 1963George H. W. Bush in Dallas (1963)
25. 1963JFK Assassination
26. 1965The Golden Triangle Drug Run
27. 1965The Phoenix Program
28. 1967Manson CIA Connection
29. 1967CIA Document 1035-960
30. 1976Bigfoot and the CIA
31. 1976Did the CIA Kill Bob Marley?
32. 1978Project STARGATE
33. 1980The Crack Cocaine CIA Connection
34. 1980John Lennon Assassin (1980)
35. 1981Pope John Paul II Shooting (1981)
36. 1985Iran-Contra Affair
37. 1993X-Files as Soft Disclosure
38. 1996The TWA 800 Missile Theory
39. 2002Extraordinary Rendition and the Black Sites
40. 2003The Plame Affair
41. 2004Targeted Individuals
42. 2007The iPhone (2007) and Siri (2010)
43. 2007The Snowden as a Limited Subversion
44. 2012The Google Glass (2013) Retinal Scan
45. 2013The PRISM Total Recall
46. 2018British and Meghan Markle