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- Bechtel Choreographs Overnight Move to New Denver International Airport
News Report · 1995
Journal of Commerce
A 1995 Journal of Commerce report that Bechtel managed the overnight move into the new Denver airport. Only the headline was accessible.
- Beyond the Blast Doors: 50 Years Later, Cheyenne Mountain Remains the Dragon That Never Sleeps
Government Record · 2016
Randy Roughton, Airman Magazine (U.S. Air Force)
Airman Magazine's official history of Cheyenne Mountain: 25-ton steel blast doors that seal in 40 seconds, and an underground city under about 2,000 feet of granite.
- Butte County DA: The Camp Fire Public Report (2020)
Government Record · 2020
Butte County District Attorney Michael L. Ramsey; joint CAL FIRE and Butte County DA investigation
Butte County District Attorney, 2020: the Camp Fire was caused by a PG&E power line arcing against a steel tower. PG&E pleaded guilty to 84 counts…
- Cheyenne Mountain Complex (NORAD fact sheet)
Government Record · 2023
North American Aerospace Defense Command
NORAD's fact sheet on Cheyenne Mountain: groundbreaking June 19, 1961, the Combat Operations Center operating April 20, 1966, completion February 6, 1967. It is still active…
- Children of the World Dream of Peace (Denver International Airport)
Document · 2026
Denver International Airport
The Denver airport's own description of Leo Tanguma's mural, which it says moves from the devastation of war to peace.
- CHIPS and Science Act, Public Law 117-167 (2022)
Government Record · 2022
117th U.S. Congress
The CHIPS and Science Act, signed August 9, 2022, funding domestic semiconductor production and research.
- CIA History: Hearts and Minds, Covert Support of Anti-Communist Groups, Part 10 (Congress for Cultural Freedom)
Government Record · 1999
Michael Warner / CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
The CIA's own declassified history of its covert Cold War funding: the agency quietly took control of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a front that backed…
- CIA History: Hearts and Minds, Covert Support of Anti-Communist Groups, Part 12 (the 1967 exposure)
Government Record · 1999
Michael Warner / CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
The same CIA history on 1967, when news stories exposed the agency's secret sponsorship of dozens of American academic, labor and cultural groups within a week.
- CIA Inspector General: Report of Audit, CIA Processes for Engaging With the Entertainment Industry (2012)
Government Record · 2012
CIA Office of Inspector General
The CIA Inspector General's 2012 audit of how the agency deals with Hollywood. It found the CIA's records could not show its entertainment requests were handled…
- CIA Studies in Intelligence: Review of the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom (2017)
Government Record · 2017
Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake
CIA's Studies in Intelligence reviews a book on the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom, including the 1967 scandal that exposed the covert funding.
- CIA: Examples of CIA Entertainment Industry Outreach
Government Record · 2019
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA document listing examples of its work with the entertainment industry: script advice, meetings, tours and some script review. The CIA says the list is not…
- CISA: Electromagnetic Pulse and Geomagnetic Disturbance
Government Record
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
CISA: an EMP from an enemy with basic nuclear weapons would likely be regional, not a continent-wide grid collapse. It warns more advanced attacks could do…
- Classified Activities (SFFAS 56)
Government Record · 2018
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
The October 2018 federal accounting standard that lets agencies change what their public financial statements show to protect classified programs: moving amounts from one line item…
- Compilation of the FY 2000 DoD Agency-Wide Financial Statements (D-2001-181)
Government Record · 2001
DoD Office of Inspector General
The Pentagon Inspector General's follow-up: for fiscal 2000, $1.1 trillion of $4.4 trillion in department-level accounting entries were unsupported or improper.
- County of Maui: Wildfire After-Action Reports
Government Record · 2025
County of Maui / Maui Emergency Management Agency / Maui Police Department
County of Maui: its wildfire after-action reports, including the emergency agency review done by hired consultants.
- CRS R44175: Navy Shipboard Lasers (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Ronald O’Rourke
Congressional Research Service, 2026: the Navy declared its LaWS laser on the USS Ponce "operational" in December 2014. Also covers the limits of shipboard lasers: range,…
- CRS R46925: DoD Directed Energy Weapons, Background and Issues for Congress
Government Record · 2024
Jennifer DiMascio; Andrew Feickert; Ronald O’Rourke; Kelley M. Sayler
Congressional Research Service, 2024: DoD defines directed energy weapons as using concentrated electromagnetic energy to disable or destroy equipment, facilities or personnel. Reviews THOR, laser Strykers,…
- CRS R48365: Law Enforcement Use of Less-than-Lethal Weapons (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Jillian Long
Congressional Research Service, 2025: on police less-than-lethal weapons, including LRAD sound devices and their health concerns. Congress has never defined less-lethal weapons in law.
- DARPA: Narrative Networks Program
Government Record · 2011
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA's own description of its Narrative Networks program, launched around 2011 to study how stories affect the brain, emotion and behavior, and to apply that in…
- Denver International Airport and Roswell International Air Center Become Supernatural Sister Airports
Document · 2019
Denver International Airport
The Denver airport's 2019 release making Roswell its "sister airport" and leaning into the conspiracy theories as a publicity campaign.
- Denver International Airport Celebrates 25 Years of Success and Growth
Document · 2020
Denver International Airport
The airport's 2020 anniversary release naming the terminal's architects, C.W. Fentress and J.H. Bradburn, and describing the overnight move from Stapleton.
- Denver International Airport: Information on Selected Financial Issues (AIMD-95-230)
Government Record · 1995
U.S. General Accounting Office
GAO's 1995 report: the $4.8 billion Denver airport opened February 28, 1995, after a 16-month delay. A $1.34 billion conceptual estimate became a $2.08 billion first…
- Department of Defense Releases Fiscal Year 2024 Military Intelligence Program Budget Topline
Government Record · 2024
Department of Defense
The 2024 military intelligence budget topline, $29.8 billion. With the national program, disclosed intelligence spending was about $106.3 billion; the details remain classified.
- Department of War: Directed Energy Bio-Effects Team and First HAVANA Act Payments (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Department of War
Department of War, July 2026: renamed its anomalous health team the "Directed Energy Bio-Effects Cross-Functional Team" and paid nearly $3 million in the first HAVANA Act…