YOUR FIRST ASSIGNMENT / THE WATCHER’S ARCHIVE

Bring one source.

There are seventy-one files on the shelf. You do not need to read them all tonight. Choose a trail below. Read one file, follow one document, and leave one useful note.

01 / THE SECRETS THAT WERE REAL

Start with the record.

Secret experiments. Domestic surveillance. A proposal that never became an operation. Learn what a document proves before asking what it might mean.

MKUltra: the surviving trail ↗COINTELPRO: the files that escaped ↗Northwoods: proposal versus execution ↗

02 / THE WORLDS WE IMAGINED

Enter the strange country.

A planet with a hidden interior. An airfield sealed behind fences. Visitors encountered in an altered state. Follow the accounts, then test the interpretation.

Hollow Earth: a world beneath the world ↗Area 51: secrecy and its afterlife ↗DMT encounters: experience and explanation ↗

03 / SPECIAL EDITION: KOREA

Follow the peninsula’s files.

Landscape, memory, political influence, and the stories that gather around them. Begin with the iron stakes or the Eight Fairies, then read the full edition.

Iron stakes: the object and its alleged purpose ↗Eight Fairies: influence and rumor ↗Open all five Korea files ↗

HOW TO LEAVE A GOOD MARGIN NOTE

A short contribution can move the file.

Choose one question in the file’s discussion invitation.
Link the document, published account, or research you used.
Explain what it establishes in your own words.
Name what it does not establish, or what would change your reading.

The question attached to each file is an editorial invitation. Reader comments are separate. Sign in and choose a handle to post; reading the archive is open to everyone.

Choose your archive handle ↗Test yourself on a file ↗

Argue with the interpretation. Bring the record. Keep threats, private information, and unsupported criminal accusations out of the margins.

READ THE ARCHIVIST’S RULES ↗