Background Kryptos is an encrypted sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Since its dedication on November 3, 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the encrypted messages it bears. Of the four messages, three have been solved, with the fourth remaining one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. The sculpture continues to provide a diversion for cryptanalysts, both amateur and professional, who are attempting to decrypt the final section. The below represents multiple FOIA requests to get documents on the sculpture…
Author: John Greenewald
Background The Projecting Electronic Ray appears to have been an invention first created around 1936. It was a contract by the U.S. Army and an inventor by the name of William Marchant / Marchant Associates, Inc. Apparently, the inventory could not fulfill his part of the contract, so it was terminated. In December of 1950, the Director of the CIA, Walter Smith, ordered an evaluation of the invention. The “ray” was supposed to ultimately be capable of delivering powerful electronic energy to a distance in excess of a few hundred yards to cut trees, minerals and metals, and to destroy…
Background The phenomenon known as the Biefield-Brown effect was discovered around 1920 by Thomas Townsend Brown and first investigated in detail in 1923 by him and his physics professor at the time. Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Document Archive The Biefield-Brown Effect, 2 May 1997 (Copyrighted document, used as fair use as obtained under FOIA) [8 Pages, 1.1MB] https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/usaf/2018-01638-F.pdf
Background On August 9, 2016, at a rally in Wilmington, N.C., Donald Trump said the following while campaigning to become President of the United States: “So here, I just wrote this down today. Hillary wants to raise taxes — it’s a comparison. I want to lower them. Hillary wants to expand regulations, which she does bigly. Can you believe that? I will reduce them very, very substantially, could be as much as 70 to 75 percent. Hillary wants to shut down energy production. I want to expand it. Lower electric bills, folks! Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment.…
Background PROMIS is believed by some to be the forefunner to the now infamous “Prism” program by the National Security Agency (NSA). The “Prism” program was brought to light by leaker Edward Snowden, yet it is now coming to light, that a program has existed long before this new revelation. It was known as PROMIS. PROMIS is also the name for a Department of Justice computer software program. In the mid-1970s, Inslaw, Inc., a small Washington D.C. software development company, created for the a highly efficient, people-tracking, computer program known as Prosecutor’s Management Information System (Promis). Inslaw’s principal owners, William…