Ghost Programs: A Hidden History of Declassified Government Oddities, (Paperback)

<p><b>The CIA implanted a microphone in a cat. The Air Force studied detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon. The Navy sprayed bacteria over San Francisco, and a man died. The Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed staging terrorist attacks on American citizens and blaming Cuba.</b></p><p>Every one of these is a documented fact.</p><p><b><i>Ghost Programs</i></b> is a meticulously researched investigation, built entirely from declassified files, FOIA releases, and sworn congressional testimony, into the strangest projects the United States government ever funded-and then tried to forget.</p><p><b>Inside, you'll discover: </b></p><ul><li><b>MKULTRA</b>-how the CIA dosed unwitting Americans with LSD, and destroyed the evidence</li><li><b>Stargate</b>-the twenty-year Pentagon program that paid psychics to spy on Soviet weapons sites</li><li><b>Project Pluto</b>-a nuclear cruise missile designed to kill enemies just by flying overhead</li><li><b>Project Iceworm</b>-the Cold War plan to hide six hundred missiles inside the Greenland ice sheet</li><li><b>Operation Northwoods</b>-the 1962 plan to manufacture a war by attacking American civilians</li><li><b>The Moscow Signal</b>-a microwave beam aimed at U.S. diplomats for fourteen years before they were told</li><li><b>Tuskegee, Holmesburg, and four thousand radiation experiments</b>-the slow arc of America's reckoning with what was done to its own citizens</li></ul><p>This is not conspiracy theory. This is the historical record-buried in archive boxes, released decades late, and almost entirely forgotten.</p><p>Drawing on more than fifty years of declassified material, <b><i>Ghost Programs</i></b> gathers into a single sobering account what governments do when no one is watching, and asks why we are only now finding out.</p>

• Ghost Programs: A Hidden History of Declassified Government Oddities, (Paperback)
• Author: Peter Grey
• ISBN: 9798197147042
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-16
• Page Count: 244