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Vault 7: Collection of CIA hacking tools published

Press release

On March 7, 2017, Wikileaks began publishing a new series of classified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency. This collection of documents, dubbed "Vault 7" by Wikileaks, is the largest series of confidential documents on the CIA.

The first part of the collection - "Year Zero" - contains 8761 files from an isolated network with a high degree protection, which is located at the CIA Cyber ​​Intelligence Center in Langley, Virginia. This is a continuation of the leaks published in February regarding CIA operations against French political parties and candidates in the run-up to the 2012 French presidential election.

The CIA recently lost control of the bulk of its hacking arsenal, including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized 0day exploits (“zero-day vulnerabilities”), remote malware control systems and related documentation. This incredible leak, which includes several hundred million lines of code, provides its owner with the full CIA hacking arsenal. This archive appears to have been distributed in an unauthorized manner to former US government hackers and contractors, one of whom gave WikiLeaks a portion of the archive.

Year Zero showcases the true scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its arsenal of malware and dozens of 0day exploits that have been used against a wide range of American and European devices and products, including the iPhone Apple, Android Google, Microsoft's Windows, and even Samsung TVs that turned into microphones for recording conversations.

Since 2001, the CIA has enjoyed a political and budgetary advantage over the US National Security Agency. It became known that the CIA was creating not only its infamous fleet of drones, but also a secret force of a completely different kind of world coverage: its own large army of hackers. The CIA's hacking department exempted the agency from reporting its often controversial operations to the NSA (its main bureaucratic rival) in order to exploit the NSA's hacking potential.

By the end of 2016, the CIA's hacker division, formally part of the agency's Cyber ​​Intelligence Center, had more than 5,000 registered users and had managed to create over a thousand hacker systems, trojans, viruses, and other weaponized malware. The scale of operations of this department of the CIA was so large that by 2016 the total size of their malware exceeded the size of the code that controls Facebook. Thus, the CIA created its own "NSA" that reported to virtually no one, and the agency did not need to publicly answer the question of how to justify the huge costs of maintaining such a competitive structure.

In a statement to WikiLeaks, the source writes about issues that urgently need to be brought to public discussion, including the question of whether the CIA's hacking potential exceeds its powers, as well as the problem of public control over the agency. The source wants to initiate public discussions on the security, creation, use, distribution and democratic control of cyber weapons.

In the event that the agency loses control of one or another cyber weapon, it will spread throughout the world within seconds and can be used by adversary states, the cyber mafia and even teenage hackers.

WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange said: “There is a big risk of proliferation in cyberweapons development. The uncontrolled proliferation of such "weapons", stemming from the impossibility of containing them and their high market value, can be compared to international trade weapons. However, the meaning of Year Zero goes far beyond the choice between cyberwar and cyberpeace. These leaks are of exceptional political, legal and expert significance.”

Wikileaks carefully reviewed Year Zero and published a significant portion of the CIA documentation, while preventing the spread of “military” cyberweapons until there was a consensus on the technical and political nature of the CIA program and the methodology for how such “weapons” should be analyzed, disposed of and published.

Context

Russian hackers helping Trump

Analysis

CIA malware attacks iPhone, Android and SmartTVs

CIA hacker programs and tools are created by the so-called Engineering Development Group (EDG), which operates as part of the Cyber ​​Intelligence Center, subordinate to the Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI). DDI is one of the five main directorates of the modern CIA.

The EDG is responsible for the development, testing and operational support of all backdoors, exploits, trojans, viruses and other forms of malware used by the CIA in its covert operations around the world.

The increasing sophistication of surveillance technology brings to mind a 1984 image of George Orwell, but the "Weeping Angel" developed by the Embedded Devices Branch (EDB) infects SmartTVs by turning them into hidden microphones , is their most striking implementation.

The attack on Samsung's smart TVs was carried out in cooperation with the UK's MI5/BTSS. After infecting the TV, "Weeping Angel" puts it into a state of apparent shutdown so that its owner thinks it is off, when in fact the TV is on. In this mode, the TV acts as a listening device, recording conversations in the room and sending them over the Internet to a secret CIA server.

In October 2014, the CIA was trying to find ways to infect the control systems of modern cars and trucks with malware. The purpose of establishing such control is not yet clear, but it might allow the CIA to carry out murders that cannot be solved.

The Mobile Devices Branch (MDB) has developed numerous programs to hack and control popular smartphones, allowing access to geolocation data, audio and SMS messages of the user, as well as covertly activating their camera and microphone.

Despite the fact that the iPhone's share of the global smartphone market is not so large (14.5%), a specialized division in MDB creates malware that allows you to infect, control and steal data from iPhones and other Apple products that run iOS, such as like an iPad.

The CIA's arsenal includes many "zero-day vulnerabilities" developed by the CIA, borrowed from the Government Communications Center, the NSA and the FBI, or acquired from cyberweapons developers such as Baitshop. Such attention to the iOS system may be due to the popularity of the iPhone among members of the social, political, diplomatic and business elite.

There is another division that specializes in Google's Android operating system installed in most smartphones from global manufacturers, including Samsung, HTC and Sony. Last year, 1.15 billion Android smartphones were sold worldwide. The Year Zero documents show that in 2016 the CIA already had 24 "military" 0day exploits that it developed on its own or acquired from the Government Communications Center, the NSA or from contractors.

These technologies make it possible to bypass the protection of popular “secure” messengers such as Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Wiebo, Confide and Cloackman at the system level, hacking smartphones and stealing audio and text messages even before they are encrypted.

CIA malware attacks Windows, OSx, Linux, routers

The CIA also goes to great lengths to infect and control the systems of Microsoft Windows users with its malware. Among the tools needed to do this are numerous local and remote "military" 0day exploits, viruses such as Hammer Drill that infect data stored on CD/DVD, viruses for USB drives, programs to mask data in image files and hidden areas of hard drives (Brutal Kangaroo) and to ensure further infection.

Most of these tasks are carried out by the Automated Implant Branch (AIB), which has developed several attack systems for automatic infection and control, such as Assassin (“Killer”) and Medusa.

Attacks on the Internet infrastructure and web servers are handled by the Network Devices Branch (NDB.

The CIA has developed automated multi-platform systems to infect and take control of Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux, and so on, such as HIVE and its related Cutthroat and Swindle, which are described below.

CIA "accumulated" vulnerabilities ("zero-day vulnerabilities")

Following Edward Snowden's NSA revelations, the US tech industry made the Obama administration promise to report to promptly vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft about any major vulnerabilities, exploits, bugs, and zero-day vulnerabilities discovered.

Serious vulnerabilities that were not reported to manufacturers expose a huge number of citizens and objects key infrastructure the risk of becoming victims of foreign intelligence or cybercriminals who themselves discover these vulnerabilities or hear about them from others. If the CIA can find these vulnerabilities, so can the rest.

The Vulnerabilities Equities Process, introduced by the administration of US President Barack Obama, was the result of a powerful lobbying campaign by US technology companies that risk losing their share of the global market due to real and perceived vulnerabilities. The government promised to report all vulnerabilities it discovered after 2010 promptly.

The Year Zero documents show that the CIA broke the Obama administration's promise. Many of the vulnerabilities in the CIA's arsenal are widespread and could have been discovered by intelligence agencies in other countries or by cybercriminals.

For example, one of the CIA malware featured in Year Zero is capable of infiltrating, infecting, and controlling both Android phones and iPhone software used or used to run the president's Twitter accounts. The CIA attacks these systems through vulnerabilities (zero-day) that the CIA has not reported to the manufacturers. But if the CIA can hack these phones, so can someone who somehow discovers this vulnerability. As long as the CIA hides these vulnerabilities from Apple and Google, who make smartphones, they cannot be fixed, and these smartphones can continue to be hacked.

These risks affect the general population, including members of the US administration, Congress, CEOs of leading corporations, system administrators, security experts, and engineers. By hiding vulnerabilities from manufacturers like Apple and Google, the CIA guarantees itself the ability to hack anyone, while exposing everyone to the danger of being hacked.

Cyberwarfare programs carry a serious risk of cyberweapon proliferation

Cyber ​​weapons cannot be effectively controlled.

While the proliferation of nuclear weapons can be contained at great cost and with massive infrastructure, cyber weapons, once created, are extremely difficult to control.

Cyber ​​weapons are just computer programs that can be stolen. Since they are entirely data, they can be copied without any effort.

Preserving such "weapons" is especially difficult because the people who develop and use them have all the necessary skills to copy them without leaving a trace - sometimes using the same "cyber weapon" against the organizations that provide them. High price such programs are a powerful incentive for government hackers and consultants, since there is a whole global “vulnerability market” where copies of such cyberweapons can pay from a few hundred dollars to several million. Contractors and companies receiving such weapons sometimes use them for their own purposes, gaining an advantage over their competitors in selling "hacking" services.

Over the past three years, the US intelligence sector, made up of government agencies like the CIA and NSA and their contractors like Booz Allan Hamilton, has been the victim of an unprecedented number of leaks backed by their own employees.

Several members of the intelligence community, whose names have not yet been released, have already been arrested or prosecuted.

The most notable case was the conviction of Harold T. Martin, who was found guilty of 20 counts of disclosure of restricted information. The Justice Department said it was able to intercept 50 gigabytes of information from Harold Martin that he had access to while working on secret NSA and CIA programs, including the source code for many hacking tools.

Once one "cyber weapon" gets out of hand, it can spread around the world within seconds, and it can be used by other states, the cyber mafia, and even teenage hackers.

The US Consulate in Frankfurt is a secret CIA hacker base

In addition to its activities in Langley, Virginia, the CIA also uses the US Consulate in Frankfurt am Main as a secret base for hackers targeting Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

CIA hackers operating out of the consulate in Frankfurt (“Cyber ​​Intelligence Center for Europe” or CCIE) are issued diplomatic (“black”) passports and provided cover by the US State Department. Judging by the text of instructions for novice hackers, the actions of German counterintelligence may seem insignificant: “Knowing your legend by heart, you pass through German customs quickly, and the only thing they do is stamp your passport.”

Your legend (for the duration of this trip)

Question: For what purpose are you here?

Answer: I participate in technical consultations for the consulate.

In two previous publications, WikiLeaks offers more detailed description methods used by the CIA during customs control and re-screening.

Arriving in Frankfurt, CIA hackers can travel without additional border checks to 25 European countries that are part of the Schengen zone, which has abolished passport and immigration controls at common borders - including France, Italy and Switzerland.

Some of the CIA's electronic attack methods are designed to operate in close proximity to the target. These attack methods allow infiltrating networks with high level protection against unauthorized access that are disconnected from the Internet - for example, police databases of criminal records and drives. In these cases, a CIA officer or agent or NATO intelligence officer, acting in accordance with instructions, physically infiltrates the computer system of interest at the workplace. The attacker carries a USB drive containing malware designed for this purpose by order of the CIA, which is inserted into the computer of interest. The attacker then infects and immediately downloads the data to removable media. For example, the Central Intelligence Agency's Fine Dining system allows CIA agents to use 24 apps that serve as disguises to divert the attention of witnesses present. To these bystanders, the agent appears to be running a video viewer (eg, VLC), showing slides (Prezi), playing a computer game (Breakout2, 2048), or even running an anti-virus program (Kaspersky, McAfee, Sophos). But while the "distracting" application is displayed on the screen, the computer system is automatically infected, browsing and extracting information.

How the CIA dramatically increased the threat of cyberweapon proliferation

In order to achieve its goals, which are certainly among the most amazing in living memory, the CIA organized its covert regime in such a way that, in general, in terms of the market value of the Vault 7 project - malware used by the Agency as a tool for achieving these goals (nested programs + zero-day vulnerabilities), information interception posts (LP), as well as command and control systems (C2) - the CIA has no special legal mechanisms (legal grounds).

Why the CIA chose not to classify its cyber arsenal shows that concepts designed for military use are quite difficult to apply on the "battlefields" of cyber "warfare."

To attack its targets, the CIA typically needs its embedded codes to communicate with its control programs over the Internet. If all the programs used by the CIA—embedded codes, C2s, and interception posts—were classified, then CIA employees could be held accountable or fired for violating rules against posting classified information on the Internet. Therefore, the CIA secretly decided not to classify most of its programs used for cyber espionage/cyber warfare. The US government cannot make them the subject of its copyright due to the restrictions imposed by the US constitution. This means that the creators of cyberweapons and computer hackers, having gained access to this "weapon", will be able to "pirate" freely, illegally copying it. The CIA has previously had to resort to data obfuscation to protect its secret malware.

Conventional weapons, such as rockets, can be launched to strike at the enemy (that is, launched into undefended territory). The proximity of the target or contact with it creates the conditions for the detonation and explosion of ammunition - including its secret part. Consequently, the military does not violate the requirements of secrecy by firing ammunition containing classified parts. The ammunition is likely to explode. If not, then this will happen through no fault of the gunner and against his will.

For the past decade, cyberattacks by the United States have been camouflaged using military jargon to gain access to Defense Department funding streams. For example, attempted "malware injections" (commercial jargon) or "programming" (NSA jargon) are referred to as "shooting"—as if guns were being fired or missiles were being fired. However, this analogy is highly questionable.

Unlike bullets, bombs, or missiles, most CIA malware is designed to "keep alive" for days or even years after reaching its "target". CIA malware doesn't "explode" when it hits a target, but rather infect it constantly. In order to infect a device, it is necessary to inject several copies of the malware into this device so that it is completely dependent on this malware in a physical sense. In order for the malware to extract data and send it to the CIA, or remain pending further instructions, it must be able to communicate with command and control systems hosted on CIA servers connected to the Internet. But such servers are usually not allowed to store classified information, so the CIA does not classify command and control systems.

A successful "attack" on a computer system of interest is not so much a weapon system shootout as it is a series of complex maneuvers with assets in an attempted takeover or the careful spread of rumors in order to gain control over the organization's leadership. If comparisons can be made to military action, then defeating a target is perhaps akin to performing a series of military maneuvers near the territory of this object - including surveillance, infiltration, occupation and exploitation.

Evasion of examination and action bypassing anti-virus programs

A set of guidelines developed by the CIA outlines malware infection patterns that can help forensic experts, as well as those from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry, Siemens, and antivirus software companies, describe and protect against hacker attacks. .

In the instructions on the methods of conducting special events (Tradecraft DO "s and DON" Ts), the CIA provides rules for writing malicious programs that allow you not to leave identification marks that give reason to talk about the involvement of "the CIA, the US government, or its knowingly acting partners" in the conduct of " forensic expertise". Similar classified regulations apply to activities such as the use of encryption to hide the traces of a CIA hacker and the spread of malware, the description of attack targets and extracted data, as well as working with payloads and the presence of an object in systems for an extended period.

CIA hackers have developed and carried out successful attacks that bypass most of the most well-known anti-virus programs. They are documented in AV defeats, Personal Security Products, Detecting and defeating PSPs, and PSP/Debugger/RE Avoidance. For example, Comodo's antivirus program was overcome by injecting CIA malware into the Recycle Bin in Windows - since Comodo 6.x has a vulnerability (Gaping Hole of DOOM).

The CIA hackers discussed what mistake the NSA's Equation Group hackers made and how the CIA malware creators could have avoided similar mistakes.

Examples

The CIA Engineering Development Division (EDG) control system contains about 500 different projects (only a few of them are designated "Year Zero"), each of which has its own subprojects, hacker programs and tools.

Most of these projects relate to tools used for hacking, infection ("injection"), control and extraction.

Another line of development is focused on the development and operation of Listening Posts (LP) and command and control (C2) systems used to establish communication and control of implants; special projects are used to attack specific equipment from routers to smart TVs.

Some examples of such projects are given below. The full list of projects described by WikiLeaks in Year Zero can be found in the table of contents.

UMBRAGE

The CIA's inept hacking poses a problem for the agency. Each technique he creates forms a kind of "fingerprint" that can be used by forensic investigators to identify a single source of various attacks.

This is analogous to finding traces of the same special knife on the body of different unrelated victims. The unique way of inflicting wounds creates suspicion that the same killer is involved in the murders. Once one of the kills in a chain is solved, the other kills are likely to be solved as well.

The CIA's Remote Devices Division, the UMBRAGE group, collects and maintains an impressive library of attack techniques "stolen" from hacking equipment manufactured in other countries, including the Russian Federation.

With the help of UMBRAGE and related projects, the CIA can not only increase the total number of types of attacks, but also divert the trail, leaving "fingerprints" of those groups whose equipment was stolen.

Among the components of UMBRAGE are keyloggers, a collection of passwords, information from webcams, destroyed data, long-term storage, granting privileges, providing stealth, avoiding anti-virus programs (PSP) and surveillance techniques.

fine dining

Fine Dining has a standard questionnaire, that is, a menu that CIA operatives fill out. Questionnaire used by the Department technical support agencies (OSB) in order to transform the requests of operatives into technical requirements For hacker attacks(usually by "withdrawing" information from computer systems) necessary for specific operations. The questionnaire allows the OSB to determine how to fine-tune the existing tools for the operation and pass this information on to the staff responsible for configuring the CIA's hacking software. The OSB functions as a link between the CIA operatives and the relevant technical support staff.

The list of possible targets in the collection includes “Employee” (“Asset”), “Connector” (“Liason Asset”), “ System Administrator”(System Administrator), “Foreign Information Operations”, “Foreign Intelligence Agencies” and “Foreign Government Entities”. It is worth noting the absence of any information about extremists or international criminals. The “Operating Officer” should also clarify the characteristics of the target, such as the type of computer, the information system used, the Internet connection, the installed anti-virus utilities (PSP), as well as the list of file types to be seized, such as Office documents, audio, video, images or user file types. The "menu" also requires information about whether the target can be re-accessed and how long access to the computer can be maintained before it is detected. This information is used by the JQJIMPROVISE software (see below) to configure a series of CIA hack programs to suit the specific needs of the operation.

Improvise (JQJIMPROVISE)

"Improvise" is a set of tools for configuration, post-processing, payload tuning and execution vector selection for exploration/extraction tools supporting all major OS, such as Windows (Bartender, "bartender"), MacOS (JukeBox, "jukebox") and Linux (DanceFloor, "dance floor"). Its configuration utilities, such as Margarita, allow the NOC (Network Operations Center) to personalize tools based on the requirements of Fine Dining questionnaires.

HIVE is a multi-platform suite of CIA hacking software and related monitoring software. The project provides customizable implants for Windows, Solaris, MikroTik (used in Internet routers), as well as the technical base for Linux platforms and the Listening Post (LP)/Command and Control System (C2) to communicate with these implants.

The implants are configured to communicate via HTTPS with a security domain server; each operation using these implants has a separate protective domain, and the technical base can withstand any number of protective domains.

Each domain leads to the IP address of a commercial VPS (virtual private server) provider. The public server sends all incoming traffic over the VPN to the "Blot" server, which controls the actual connection requests from clients. This is the order for optional SSL client authentication: if it sends a valid client certificate (which only implants can do), the connection is passed to the "Honeycomb" toolserver that communicates with the implant; if a valid certificate is not provided (which happens if someone accidentally tries to open a site with a secure domain), then the traffic is directed to the security server, which sends it to an unsuspicious site.

The Honeycomb toolserver receives the seized information from the implant; the operator can also instruct the implant to execute work on the target computer, thus the toolserver acts as a C2 (Command and Control System) server for the implant.

Similar functionality (though limited to Windows) is provided by the RickBobby project. Cm. secret instructions user and developer for HIVE.

FAQ

Why now?

In February, the Trump administration issued an executive order calling for a report on "Cyberwarfare" within 30 days.

While the report is delayed and heightens the importance of publication, it did not affect the publication date of the material.

Treatment

Names, addresses Email and external IP addresses were changed in the published pages (total 70875 changes) before the analysis was completed.

1. Other amendments: some information has been edited that does not relate to employees, performers, goals and other relations with the agency; for example, it concerned the authors of documentation for other public projects involved in the agency.

2. Personality vs. Human: the corrected names have been replaced with user IDs (numbers) to enable readers to associate large volumes of pages with a single author. Given the correction procedure applied, one person may be represented by more than one identifier, but an identifier cannot correspond to more than one person.

3. Archive Applications (zip, tar.gz,…) replaced by PDF, which lists all file names in the archive. Once the content of the archive has been verified, it may be available; Until then, the archive will be edited.

4. Applications with other two-level content replaced with a hexadecimal content dump to prevent accidental activation of routes that may have been infected by CIA hacks. Once the content has been verified, it may become available; until then, the content will be edited.

5. Tens of thousands of links to routable addresses(including more than 22,000 in the United States) corresponding to possible targets, hidden CIA listening servers, intermediary and test systems are being edited for further exclusive investigation.

6. Two-level files of non-public origin are only available as dumps to prevent accidental activation of CIA hacked files.

Organizational structure

The organizational structure is consistent with material published by WikiLeaks until now.

Since the organizational structure of the CIA below the directorate level is not publicly available, the placement of the EDG and its departments in the agency structure is reconstructed from the information contained in the documents that have been released to date. This can serve as a rough outline internal organization; please be aware that the revamped organizational structure is not fully represented and internal reorganizations occur frequently.

Wiki pages

"Year Zero" contains 7818 web pages from the group software's internal developments. The software used for this purpose is called Confluence and is the property of Atlassian. Web pages in this system (as well as in Wikipedia) have version histories, which provide an interesting insight into the evolution of a document over time; 7818 documents include the history of these pages with 1136 latest versions.

The order of the named pages at each level is determined by the date (the first being the earliest). Page content is missing if it was originally dynamically created software Confluence (as noted on the reconstructed page).

What time period is covered?

From 2013 to 2016. The sort order of pages within each level is determined by the date (the first is the most distant).

WikiLeaks has obtained the CIA creation/last update date of each page, but due to technical reasons this information is not yet displayed. The date can usually be determined or approximated from the content and page order. If it is extremely important for you to know the exact time/date, please contact WikiLeaks.

What is Vault 7?

Vault 7 is a major collection of CIA material obtained by WikiLeaks.

When were the individual parts of Vault 7 received?

The first part was received recently and covers the whole of 2016. Details on other parts will be available at the time of publication.

Does each part of Vault 7 come from a separate source?

Details on other parts will be available at the time of publication.

What is the total volume of "Vault 7"?

This series is the most extensive publication on the intelligence agency in history.

How did WikiLeaks get each part of Vault 7?

Sources prefer that WikiLeaks not disclose information that could help identify them.

Is WikiLeaks worried that the CIA will take action against its employees to stop this series from being published?

No. This would be extremely counterproductive.

Has WikiLeaks collected all the best stories yet?

No. WikiLeaks deliberately kept hundreds of high-profile stories down, encouraging others to find them, and thus setting the bar for the next publication in the series. Here they are. Take a look. Readers who demonstrate superior journalism skills may receive earlier access to future installments.

Won't other journalists get ahead of me in search of the best stories?

Unlikely. There are many more stories than there are journalists and academics able to write about them.

The materials of InoSMI contain only assessments of foreign media and do not reflect the position of the editors of InoSMI.

The CIA on its website opened free access to declassified documents, including reports on UFO research and telepathy. The results obtained under the Stargate program, in which the CIA “tested” Uri Geller, the famous British psychic, who became famous for publicly bending teaspoons and even tablespoons with his eyes, stopped the Big Ben clock ” in London, made stopped alarm clocks go off all over the world.

From the declassified documents it follows: Uri Geller demonstrated his abilities to scientists from the CIA, who in August 1973 experimented with him at the Stanford Research Institute (Stanford Research Institute). The purpose of the experiments was to determine whether the subject actually possesses telepathic abilities, and whether they - these abilities - can be used for intelligence purposes.

To start, the scientists randomly selected a word from a dictionary. The choice fell on the word "firecracker", which they drew. Geller, who was sitting in another room, telepathically received this information. And he said that he "sees" something cylindrical that makes noise. But in the end, I drew not a firecracker, but a drum.

The first picture mentally sent to Geller from the CIA

Here is what Geller accepted and drew

The CIA officer drew a bunch of grapes. The "telepath" stated that he "sees" many, many round drops of some kind. And he drew a very similar bunch - both the conceived one and the reproduced one had the same number of berries. There were 24 of them.

Below - "transmission" from the CIA, above - "reception" by Geller

The experiments continued in the same spirit for a week. Uri Geller drew many pictures mentally sent to him. And reproduced most of them correctly. At least the plot. Very similar depicted a dove, a kite. A little "let us down" with a camel - instead of a two-humped creature, Geller painted a horse.

CIA scientists suggested that the subject does not mechanically copy the lines of the picture “sent” to him, but reproduces it after he processes the information received in the brain.

Picture sent from the CIA

Geller drawing

The CIA concluded that telepathy is a real phenomenon. Nevertheless, the Stargate program was closed. The experiments ended in 1998. According to the official version, the abilities of psychics disappointed the scouts.

After all, it was assumed that telepathy could be used for covert transmission of information without any technical means - just from one person to another. But the accuracy of "reception" - especially from long distances - turned out to be low. The same Geller could not draw a suspension bridge, the image of which was "transferred" to him from another city. Although he correctly reproduced the outlines of one of the elements - a curved rope.

Bridge handed over from the CIA

In this form, the image of the bridge reached Geller

Almost failed and another attempt - to portray the devil. It turned out a set of different items. But among them was a trident, which was in the original picture.

Devil, mentally "sent" to Geller

Geller has only a trident left from the devil

How can one disagree with the CIA and not believe that telepathy does exist. And Uri Geller, who has demonstrated very convincing results, owns it to some extent.

A page from a previously classified CIA report on the results of experiments with Uri Geller

The journalists contacted Uri Geller, who now lives in Israel. And he said that the CIA declassified only a small part of the documents that related to his work for the secret services.

I did a lot for the CIA,” Geller said. - Once they asked me to go to the Russian embassy in Mexico City and erase - remotely - floppy disks obtained by Russian agents.

I was present not far from the places where politicians were holding important talks on nuclear deterrence, - the "telepath" confides. - And inspired: sign, sign!

According to Geller, one of the foreign intelligence agencies asked him to mentally stop the heart of a pig. Which he did, for some reason assuming that the far-reaching goal of this experiment was to remotely kill Andropov, who at that time headed the KGB.

And during cold war he was "tested" in the atomic laboratory - they checked whether he could affect the rate of a nuclear reaction.

Allegedly, the Americans had the idea to telepathically influence Soviet atomic bombs in order to detonate them remotely.

Young Uri Geller: the picture was taken just in the year he joined the CIA

How such strange experiments ended, Geller did not say.

But he said that he was not at all embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the cool attitude on the part of skeptics - especially when he bent spoons. Like, the image of an eccentric magician served as an excellent cover for his main activity - espionage: both for the CIA and for the Mossad.

Rumors about cruel experiments on their own citizens, carried out in the laboratories of special services, have been circulating in America for a long time - ever since the data on the secret CIA project "MK-Ultra" were disclosed. It became a real sensation, it turned out that for many years scientists had been conducting forbidden research. Until now, the archives of this project are classified.

Ordinary Americans are experiencing double psychological pressure - on the one hand, there are very popular opinions that the country is practically in the circle of enemies, Islamic countries, Russia, China only dream of defeating America and depriving its people of their usual way of life. But on the other hand, another misfortune props up, the threat to security from the side of their own government and special services, striving to take their citizens under the hood of total control. Of course, Edward Snowden's revelations only added fuel to the fire, and even before that, the abbreviation NSA evoked no more pleasant associations in an ordinary American than the KGB. But if their own are still somehow protected from foreign special services, then there is simply no salvation from the latter. Listening in on conversations, total control carried out under the pretext of "fighting terrorism" - this is not very pleasant.

In addition, during their existence, the American intelligence services have been repeatedly accused of conducting cruel experiments on people, which gave rise to paranoid moods among the masses, often of a conspiratorial nature, but no less contagious for that. These stories find their continuation in music, literature and cinema, amplifying and spreading the fears of the population. However, the Americans have a lot of reasons for panic.

In 1974, an issue of The New York Times came out with a sensational journalistic investigation, the result of which was the exposure of one of the most sinister and mysterious projects in recent history. It was about the CIA program under code name"MK-Ultra" and dedicated to the search for means to establish complete control over the psyche and consciousness of a person.

This project existed from the early 50s to the late 60s. During this time, thousands of people passed through the hands of the experimenters, some of whom received serious mental disorders, and many died. It was the testimonies of former test subjects that formed the basis of the scandalous publication, shortly after the appearance of which a special commission was created in the US Congress to investigate the activities of the CIA during the years of the program's existence. In addition, the presidential commission, headed by Nelson Rockefeller, joined the investigation.

But the government investigation was seriously complicated by the fact that the CIA had by this time destroyed a significant part of the documents capable of shedding light. However, most of the surviving documentary evidence has not been declassified. However, the result of the government investigation was the introduction of a legislative ban for the US intelligence agencies to conduct research on the human psyche without the knowledge of the country's government. In addition, the President of America personally apologized to the relatives of the victims, the victims were paid monetary compensation - however, is it possible to compensate for the destruction of the human psyche with money?

The MK-Ultra program, in a certain sense, became a continuation of the experiments of Josef Mengele, who tried to "profit" to cut not only the flesh, but also the human psyche.

After the end of the Second World War, information about these experiments fell into the hands of the American intelligence services and "inspired" them to create a program designed to find empirically trouble-free ways to artificially simulate the human personality. The task was to find ways to completely suppress the human psyche, to establish absolute control over him - zombies, in a word.

They tried to achieve this by introducing a person into artificial amnesia, erasing the previous personal qualities and creating new ones. For this, the experimental subject was subjected to prolonged exposure to sensory deprivation - eyes and ears were closed, placed in a chamber isolated from sounds and smells for many days. Without prejudice to oneself, a person is able to stay only a couple of days in such a chamber, but within the framework of the MK-Ultra program, people were kept in this position for about a month, and in some cases even more, achieving serious changes in the psyche of the experimental subjects. Then they began to scroll through monotonous coding commands, which, according to the researchers, should have been firmly imprinted in the minds of the victims. In addition, experiments were carried out with the impact on the human body of strong discharges of electric current - they looked at what consequences this had on the psyche and behavior of the subject.

But the main focus of research was the testing of narcotic drugs, which the secret services hoped to learn how to use for their own purposes.

At the head of these researches was the doctor of chemical sciences Sidney Gottlieb. He was primarily interested in the nature of the action of "mind-altering" drugs, mescaline and LSD. The aim of the project was to develop a drug that could change not only the behavior, but even the ideology of a person. Researchers pinned great hopes on LSD - this drug only appeared in those years, and differed from all previously known hallucinogens by its unusually powerful effect on the human body. I must say that at first this drug was actively used by scientists to study schizophrenia - it was believed that psychedelic delirium has a mechanism identical to schizophrenia. They also tried to use LSD to treat mental disorders - however, this provoked the widespread use of the drug among European and American youth: in those years, "psychedelic experiments" with one's own consciousness became fashionable.