The docket
All directives
One file at a time. Released directives open to the full story, the video and the documents behind it.
Directive 001
Castle Bravo
The scientists expected six megatons. They got fifteen. What the declassified files say about the worst radiological disaster in U.S. testing history.
Released
Directive 002
Project Azorian
A billionaire's mining ship, a dead submarine three miles down, and the answer that became famous: "neither confirm nor deny."
Pending
Directive 003
Operation Highjump
Thirteen ships, 4,700 men and a mountain of myths. The expedition, from the Navy's own records.
Pending
Directive 004
Project Blue Book
Twelve thousand reports, case by case. What the investigators explained, and what they couldn't.
Pending
Directive 005
The Tic Tac
The 2004 Nimitz encounter, from the Navy video to the official reports.
Pending
Directive 006
SR-71 Blackbird
Built in secret, flown over hostile ground, and declassified piece by piece.
Pending
Directive 007
Operation Paperclip
How the United States recruited Hitler's engineers, and what their files left out.
Pending
Directive 008
Operation Northwoods
The Joint Chiefs signed it. Kennedy rejected it. The memo stayed secret for decades.
Pending