BLACK OPERATIONS
Covert operations by an intelligence agency that have no official owner, and can not be attributed to the organization in charge of them for security reasons.
SPUKHAFTE FERNWIRKUNG
Spooky Action at a Distance
The interaction of objects that are separated by spacetime.
THEORY OF EVERYTHING
A theory that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena, and can predict the outcome of any experiment.
KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography that allegely showed `auras' around people's bodies. Some theorize that Exotic Matter visualization has its roots in Kirlian Photography.
CONTROL
In the intelligence field, the control is a person in charge
of remotely providing DiRection to a team of Operatives
usiNg some form of Electronic communication.
SAMSARA
The Circle of life, death and rebirth to which the creatures of the world are bound.
PROJECT ARTICHOKE
An early CIA 'mind control' program. The precursor to MKULTRA.
DEAD DROP
A way of using a secret location to exchange a physical object or piece of information during an espionage operation. The opposite of a live drop..
CRYPTOMNESIA
Inadvertently plagiarizing somebody or something because you've forgotten the source. One of the most famous cases of cryptomnesia was of Paul McCartney going around asking people if they'd ever heard `Yesterday' before because it came so easily that he was convinced that he must have heard it before.operation.
COMPROMISED
When a secret operative's identity or operation is uncovered and cannot continue as planned.
REMOTE VIEWING
The paranormal ability of a subject to have an out-of-body view of a person, place, or moment in time without being physically present there.
FUGUE STATE
A mental state associated with a self-disappearance.
SQUID
Superconducting QUantum Interference Device
Extremely sensitive detectors used by physicists to detect quantum level changes in magnetic flux.
RATIOCINATION
Ordered chain of logical thinking.
ASEMIC WRITING
A wordless form of writing.
BLOWBACK
The unexpected, and most often negative consequences experienced as the result of an intelligence operation.
THE RABBIT
In surveillance: The target of an operation.
WAVE-FUNCTION COLLAPSE
All particles exist as waves that contain information about many states that the particle can simultaneously be in until observation or measurement; at this point, all of the possible states of the particle are excluded except one randomly chosen one, which is the one observed.
TURING TEST
Named after Alan Turing. A test to determine if a computer can exhibit intelligence that is indistinguishable from a human.
MKULTRA
A notorious and massive CIA operation lasting 20 years with the goal of exploring 'behavioral engineering of humans.'
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION
~8000 BCE. The advent of agriculture, and the beginning of human civilization.
ANFRACTUOSITY
Having the quality of being winding, circuitous, or intricate.
MOLE
An agent within an organization who is tasked to disrupt the goals of that organization via intelligence leaks or sabotage.
PROVOCATEUR
An agent sent into a group of people with the objective of causing disruption and embarassment.
PRETERNATURAL
Outside of the ordinary course of nature. Exceptional or abnormal.
Differs from 'supernatural' in that preternatural phenomena are believed to have rational explanations.
TRANSDUCTION
The conversion of a stimulus from one form to another as it travels a neural pathway.
AMBIGUITY
A perception that can be interpreted in more than one way.
AGENT OF INFLUENCE
An agent in a position of power who uses their influence and status to benefit the country or agency to whom they belong.
ONE-TIME SOURCE
A source of intelligence who can not be expected to provide information on a regular basis, either due to their limited knowledge or due to the extreme circumstances of contact.
This is a hint for the passcode -
ANOMALOUS ACTIVITY
Activity that is irregular or deviates unusually from what is expected; activity inconsistent with the norm.
OBJECT PERMANENCE
The idea that objects exist independently of one's action or awareness; a significant cognitive acquisition during infancy.