The CIA has unveiled around eight million previously top-secret documents, and revelations of this kind always attracts the public interest.
It is one of the most secretive intelligence agencies in the country, and what goes on behind-closed-doors has often been the subject of many a movie or TV show.
That’s why whenever the CIA releases any documents of this kind, it always attracts attention, and these latest releases are staggering.
Even the best minds in Hollywood can’t say they would have come up with these ideas, such is the left-field nature of the revelations.
One of the most incredible assignments which the CIA ran was one into psychic experiments and extrasensory perception.
They experimented on none other than Uri Geller, who was able to replicate drawings done in a totally separate room to what he was in.
It’s unclear what the CIA made of these experiments and whether they were deemed a success or failure, but it’s amazing how science fiction ideas are being looked into to see if they can be changed to science fact.
Other information released includes reports on flying saucers, and ways in which invisible ink could be developed for highly secretive messages to be passed from person to person.
There has been a lot of history not just in the documents themselves, but in the manner of them getting released.
They were previously only available on four specific computers in Maryland between office hours.
But one person began a crowdfunding page to scan every document on those computers so that the wider world could view them.
The CIA was also sued after they initially said it would take 28 years to publish all these papers.
It is fascinating and a little bit scary wondering what things the minds of the CIA will think of next.
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