United States Army

The Files

• Alcatraz Tunnel to the Mainland — Built the nineteenth-century fortifications, tunnels, and related underground works later absorbed into rumor.
• The Elvis Army Grooming — The institution portrayed in the theory as absorbing and repackaging youth rebellion through Elvis’s service.
• Irradiating the Public Food Supply — Ran the food irradiation programme from 1953, seeking rations that would keep without refrigeration; handed it to the USDA in 1980
• The "Indian" Ghost Dance as German Plot — Deployed against communities associated with the movement
• The "Burr" Western Empire — Provided officers and intelligence figures connected to the affair
• The CCC Brainwashing — Handled important administrative and logistical functions in many CCC camps and fueled the camps’ military image.
• The Pancho Villa Ghost Army — Its mobilization along the border made the threat appear large enough to sustain hidden-war theories.
• The White UN Trucks — Ran Jade Helm 15 across Texas and six other states, July to September 2015
• Operation Sea-Spray — Ran the monitoring and disclosed the tests to the Senate in 1977
• The Ghost Army (Real but mythologized) — The military organization that authorized and used the deception operations.
• The Flu Vaccine as Pacification — Institution that supported early influenza vaccine development, giving the theory its strongest state connection.
• The Cigarette Addiction — Included cigarettes in ration systems and normalized their use in military life, forming the backdrop of the theory.
• MKUltra — Collaborator
• Project Camelot — Commissioned and funded the study
• The American and the Nazi Scientist Swap — Initial military institution that took custody of many German specialists.
• The Army and Saltpeter — Main institutional setting in which the modern American form of the myth circulated.
• The Mechanical Soldier — Institution named in rumor as a possible sponsor or user of a mechanical infantry project.
• Operation Paperclip — Primary beneficiary of recruited scientists

Connected Figures & Organizations

• Central Intelligence Agency · 2 shared
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2 shared
• United States Navy · 2 shared
• Harry S. Truman · 2 shared
• National Park Service · 2 shared
• Wernher von Braun · 2 shared
• Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency · 2 shared
• Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1 shared
• Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1 shared
• Adolf Hitler · 1 shared
• United States Food and Drug Administration · 1 shared
• Douglas MacArthur · 1 shared

Timeline

1. 1805The "Burr" Western Empire
2. 1889The "Indian" Ghost Dance as German Plot
3. 1905Irradiating the Public Food Supply
4. 1910The Army and Saltpeter
5. 1916The Pancho Villa Ghost Army
6. 1933The Flu Vaccine as Pacification
7. 1933The CCC Brainwashing
8. 1934Alcatraz Tunnel to the Mainland
9. 1935The Mechanical Soldier
10. 1941The Cigarette Addiction
11. 1944The Ghost Army (Real but mythologized)
12. 1945Operation Paperclip
13. 1945The American and the Nazi Scientist Swap
14. 1950Operation Sea-Spray
15. 1953MKUltra
16. 1957The Elvis Army Grooming
17. 1964Project Camelot
18. 2015The White UN Trucks