Background According to Wikipedia: Alexander Theodore “Sasha” Shulgin (June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014) was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. He is credited with introducing MDMA (“ecstasy” or “molly”) to psychologists in the late 1970s for psychopharmaceutical use and for the discovery, synthesis and personal bioassay of over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential. In 1991 and 1997, he and his wife Ann Shulgin authored the books PIHKAL and TIHKAL (standing for Phenethylamines and Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved), which extensively described their work and personal experiences with these…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Here is FBI File 62-HQ-80750, entitled: Central Intelligence Agency. There were a number of sections missing in my initial FOIA request to the FBI for this file. Specifically, among the omitted sections are Sections 2 through 23, 25 through 31, 33, 35 through 46, 48 through 54, 57 through 59, 78, 91, 98, and 115. In August of 2016, I received another batch of documents, which I have integrated into the index below. Although I maintained the same file naming algorithm as they were sent to me, the documents released in August of 2016 are differentiated by the “1343174-0” in…
Background The Condon Committee, officially known as the University of Colorado UFO Project, was an investigative group funded by the United States Air Force from 1966 to 1968. The group was led by physicist Edward U. Condon, hence the committee’s popular name. The objective of this committee was to examine the phenomenon of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) to determine if they presented any scientific interest. The Condon Committee Report, also known as “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects,” was the result of this two-year investigation. The report, nearly 1,500 pages long, was published in 1968. It included detailed analysis and…
Background The National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan (Strategy and Action Plan) will improve our Nation’s preparedness to address the hazard of near-Earth object (NEO) impacts over the next 10 years. Its primary role is to help organize and coordinate NEO-related efforts within Federal Departments and Agencies (agencies), with a particular focus on efforts that are already existing and resourced. It seeks to leverage and enhance existing assets and capabilities—National and international, public and private—to effectively manage the risks associated with NEOs. The Strategy and Action Plan builds on efforts by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),…
Background According to this document: “This study, undertaken by the Foreign Denial and Deception Analysis Committee (DDAC) at the direction of the Director of Central Intelligence, is one of two assessments of damage undertaken as a result of Jonathan Pollard’s espionage on behalf of Israel during 1984-1985, which are being issued almost simultaneously.” Back in 2007, the CIA released the below document, heavily redacted. Since nearly a decade had passed, in June of 2017, I requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) of the record, believing that since so much time had passed, and there had been significant changes in politics…