The Evidence Record

The Evidence Record

• “Black Budget” Summary Details U.S. Spy Network’s Successes, Failures and Objectives

  News Report · 2013

  Barton Gellman and Greg Miller, The Washington Post

  The Washington Post's 2013 report on the classified intelligence budget leaked by Edward Snowden: $52.6 billion for fiscal 2013.

• $7M DARPA Contract (Colorado School of Mines, Underminer)

  Document · 2020

  Colorado School of Mines

  The Colorado School of Mines' page on its $7 million DARPA Underminer contract, targeting a sustained tunneling rate of 1,200 feet per hour in field tests.

• $elling Out the Investigation — Fire Engineering Editorial, January 2002

  News Report

  Fire Engineering

  Editorial by Bill Manning, editor of Fire Engineering, the trade publication of the American fire service. Published two months before the congressional hearing. Manning called the…

• A Local’s Guide to DIA Conspiracy Theories (Denver Public Library)

  Government Record · 2024

  Denver Public Library

  The Denver Public Library's guide to the airport theories. It says the tunnels under the airport are for maintenance and baggage, the Blue Mustang has no…

• ACLU v. Clapper, 785 F.3d 787 (2d Cir. 2015)

  Court Filing · 2015

  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  The federal appeals court ruling that the NSA's bulk telephone metadata program exceeded what Congress authorized under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.

• AFRL: High Power Electromagnetics and CHAMP (2016)

  Government Record · 2016

  Air Force Research Laboratory

  Air Force Research Laboratory fact sheet: CHAMP, a missile-mounted high-power microwave weapon that knocks out electronics, was tested in a technology demonstration. No clear path to…

• AFRL: THOR Microwave Weapon Disables Drone Swarm (2023)

  Government Record · 2023

  Air Force Research Laboratory

  Air Force Research Laboratory, May 2023: its THOR microwave weapon disabled a swarm of drones in a demonstration. The lab calls it an early demonstrator.

• Agreement Extending the Agreement relating to the Establishment of a Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap (TIAS 12959)

  Government Record · 1998

  Governments of the United States and Australia

  The 1998 U.S.-Australia agreement extending the original Pine Gap agreement signed in Canberra on December 9, 1966.

• Air Force Patent 6,470,214: Radio Frequency Hearing Effect (2002)

  Government Record · 2002

  James P. O’Loughlin; Diana L. Loree

  U.S. Patent 6,470,214 (2002), assigned to the Air Force: a method for producing intelligible sound inside a person's head using the radio frequency hearing effect. A…

• Air Force: Airborne Laser Destroys Ballistic Missile in Test (2010)

  Government Record · 2010

  U.S. Air Force

  U.S. Air Force, February 2010: the Airborne Laser, a megawatt laser in a 747, destroyed a ballistic missile in flight as a proof of concept.

• Air Force: Moody Airmen Test the Active Denial System (2007)

  Government Record · 2007

  Air Education and Training Command Public Affairs

  U.S. Air Force, 2007: airmen at Moody Air Force Base tested the Active Denial System, a 95 GHz heat-pain beam. The Air Force says over 10,000…

• Air Force: Test Results Support Active Denial System as Nonlethal (2008)

  Government Record · 2008

  Air Force Materiel Command

  Air Force Materiel Command, 2008: test results support the Active Denial System as nonlethal, repelling people with an intolerable heating sensation. Government-funded testing reviewing a government…

• Aircraft Accident Report: TWA Flight 514, Boeing 727-231, Berryville, Virginia (NTSB-AAR-75-16)

  Government Record · 1975

  National Transportation Safety Board

  The NTSB report on TWA Flight 514, which crashed on the west slope of Mount Weather on December 1, 1974, killing all aboard. The board blamed…

• Allegations of Connections Between CIA and the Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the United States, Volume II (CIA Inspector General, 1998)

  Government Record · 1998

  Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Inspector General

  The CIA Inspector General's 1998 report (the Hitz report) on allegations that the CIA tolerated or assisted cocaine trafficking by people tied to the Contras. The…

• AP: ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Coined Long Before JFK Assassination (2023)

  News Report · 2023

  Associated Press

  Associated Press, January 2023: reports researcher Andrew McKenzie-McHarg found "conspiracy theory" used as early as 1863 and "conspiracy theorist" in 1962, before the CIA's 1967 memo,…

• Army FY2027 Research Budget: Directed Energy Lines

  Government Record · 2026

  Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)

  Army budget request for fiscal 2027: tens of millions a year for laser prototype work, with $94.8 million requested for directed energy in 2027.

• Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported (DODIG-2016-113)

  Government Record · 2016

  DoD Office of Inspector General

  The Pentagon Inspector General found the Army could not support $2.8 trillion in third-quarter and $6.5 trillion in year-end adjustments to its fiscal 2015 books. The…

• Army: DE M-SHORAD Laser Stryker Inducted Into Fort Sill Museum (2025)

  Government Record · 2025

  U.S. Army

  U.S. Army, 2025: its first 50 kW laser on a Stryker vehicle (DE M-SHORAD) went to a museum after prototype testing that included 50 live-fire engagements…

• Australia’s Defence Relations with the United States, Chapter 5: Dialogue with US on Missile Defence

  Government Record · 2006

  Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Parliament of Australia

  An Australian parliamentary committee report describing Pine Gap's role detecting ballistic missile launches for U.S. early-warning satellites.

• 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.

• 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.

• Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence (1976)

  Government Record · 1976

  Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee)

  Book I of the Senate Select Committee's final report on U.S. intelligence agencies. It covers the CIA's drug and behavior-control testing, including MKULTRA, and the CIA's…