Classified programmes and patents

The US Patent Office keeps 6653 inventions in its vaults, of which the public is only allowed to know the total number. A 1951 act allows any application to be withheld if the state believes its publication would compromise national security. However, this secrecy leaves a paper trail. The book Classified Programs and Patents follows these clues. Patent files, declassified telegrams and transcripts of sworn hearings guide you from a nuclear reactor that waited ten years for its patent, to rain over the Ho Chi Minh trail and Nikola Tesla's estate, all the way to project MKULTRA, Havana syndrome and the UFO files opened by the government in 2026.

The book does not believe everything, nor does it dismiss everything. It labels every claim as documented, disputed, unverified or disproven, stopping exactly where the documents end. This lets you decide for yourself where your own limit of trust lies.