Ten Extremely Weird Documents in the CIA’s Online FOIA Archives

On Tuesday, the CIA uploaded 12 million declassified pages onto a searchable online database — the first time that these documents had been viewable anywhere other than on four computers in a single room in Washington D.C. The CREST database, which stands for CIA Records Search Tool, contains an astounding number of documents on a variety of topics dating back to the 1940s.
Some of these documents are about important, world-changing topics. Others are truly weird and mundane. Here are ten of the strangest ones that Inverse found while searching through the database. It’s not immediately clear why the CIA had all these documents, many of which were newspaper or magazine clippings, in its archives. All that matters is that they were important to the agency, for whatever reason, at some point in time.
1. A Washington Post article titled “Yes, Psychic Warfare Is Part of the Game”
This 1981 article reports that the Pentagon had spent $6 million on psychic warfare, including attempts to crack Soviet codes with ESP, and a proposed missile defense system over the north pole that would suck enemy nukes into the past. These missiles would then kill dinosaurs, or something, leaving present-day America unscathed.
