To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.
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“In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.”
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