Before there was a prison break. Before there was a classified mission. Before two men disappeared into the shadows of Southern Africa’s most dangerous decade—there was a war most people don’t understand, and a Cold War game few have ever heard of.

This audio prelude provides the essential background for those unfamiliar with the covert power struggle that gripped Africa in the aftermath of decolonisation. From the Rhodesian Bush War to the chaotic birth of Zimbabwe, this short narrative briefing will prepare you for what follows in our first-ever video podcast, filmed at the brand new Hangar 51 Studios.

That episode—The Gericke Files: Unofficial Wars, Unwritten Rules, The Impossible Rescue—is a landmark longform interview with two men who never expected to speak publicly. This audio introduction sets the table for the operation that didn’t exist, in a war that never ended.

🎧 Listen now to understand what really happened in Rhodesia—and why it still matters today.

In this special audio investigation, we pull back the final layer of one of the most dangerous — and least understood — black programs of the modern era: biological warfare.

From the unspeakable atrocities of Japan's Unit 731 and the secret immunity deals struck by U.S. intelligence, to the rise of Fort Detrick, Porton Down, and the silent Cold War arms race in invisible weapons — this episode exposes the hidden architecture of biological black research that has unfolded across eight decades.

We examine:

* The true, unwritten version of Operation Paperclip that harvested human experimentation data.

* The Cold War’s offensive bioweapons programs on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

* The near-disaster at Tulane’s biosafety labs during Hurricane Katrina.

* The rise of gain-of-function research, DARPA’s synthetic biology programs, and the quiet insertion of private contractors into the most dangerous domains of life manipulation.

* And how China’s Military-Civil Fusion doctrine has resurrected the same biowarfare architecture for 21st-century strategic supremacy.

⚠️ The most terrifying bioweapon may not be what is deployed — but what escapes. And as we cross into the age of synthetic biology, what’s at risk is not just national security, but control itself.

This is Project Prometheus — where biology becomes power, and the shadows may be darker than we’ve ever dared imagine.

🧬 Listen now. The fire has already been stolen.

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What if time itself could be weaponised? What if the future of warfare wasn’t faster bullets or smarter bombs—but faster brains?

In this episode of Hangar 51 Files, we step inside the classified corridors of DARPA’s most unnerving programs—where neuroscience meets battlefield tempo, and perception becomes the new high ground. From brain-computer interfaces to vagus nerve stimulation, from drone operators trapped in moral limbo to soldiers being trained in real-time cognitive compression, this is the story of how the U.S. military is racing not just to dominate the battlefield, but to reprogram the soldier’s relationship with time itself.

🧠 Based on our in-depth investigative article Chronoform: The Secret Science of Asymmetric Time in Military Research, this episode explores how time perception is quietly being studied, shaped, and possibly manipulated—by those who already operate in milliseconds.

🗂️ Want to go deeper?Dive into the full companion archive:

→ Read the article

→ Explore the Deep Dive Companion & FAQ

→ Read our in-depth Reading Brief review of The Pentagon’s Brain — Annie Jacobsen’s definitive account of DARPA’s dark imagination and the origin story of many of the programs featured in this episode.

From perceptual latency to the ethics of mind-speed warfare, Chronoform isn’t just a podcast—it’s a classified briefing in plain sight.

In this episode, we uncover the extraordinary, forgotten story of the Soviet Union’s Venera missions — the first human-made machines to land on another planet and transmit data back to Earth.Built like deep-sea leviathans, hurled into the crushing inferno of Venus, these landers survived where no others dared, revealing a world of unimaginable heat, pressure, and devastation.Overshadowed by the Moon race, lost to Cold War secrecy, the triumph of Venera remains one of history’s greatest — and least understood — space victories.Join us as we explore the brutal engineering, political rivalries, and ghostly relics still lying silent on the Hell Planet today.

Behind the curtain of World War II history lies a darker, lesser-known theatre of horror — one not waged with bullets or bombs, but bacteria. In this episode of Hangar 51 Files, we unseal the archives on Japan’s notorious Unit 731: a secretive biological warfare programme that turned human experimentation into a military science.

From the icy compounds of Manchukuo to the corridors of postwar Allied intelligence, we follow the trail of human suffering and scientific ambition—where plague, cholera, and anthrax became weapons, and prisoners became mere “logs” in the name of imperial research.

We investigate:

* The rise of ultramilitarism and its corruption of medical ethics

* The experimental atrocities of Unit 731 and its sister unit, Unit 100

* Japan’s bioweapons deployment plans against China, the USSR — even the U.S.

* The post-war scramble to suppress, exploit, and whitewash the programme

* How Cold War priorities trumped justice — and turned war crimes into research opportunities

This isn’t just a history of science gone rogue — it’s a story of realpolitik, secrecy, and the uncomfortable truth that some files were never meant to be opened… until now.

🎧 Subscribe to uncover the buried truths others won’t touch.

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We talk a lot about weapons. Missiles. Hypersonics. Drones. AI kill-chains.

But what if the most dangerous battlefield is the one we never see?

This week on Hangar 51 Files, we take you inside the silent front of 21st-century warfare. Not cyberspace. Not outer space. But the narrative space—where China has been quietly building dominance for decades.

This is 话语权 (huàyǔ quán), Beijing’s strategy to control global discourse—and with it, the perceptions that shape diplomacy, economics, and even war.

From TikTok feeds to Hollywood edits, from Africa’s state newsrooms to Ivy League campuses, this isn’t a cultural quirk—it’s geopolitical warfare through storytelling.

🎙 In this episode:

* How China operationalises narrative power through AI, social media, and state-backed platforms

* The export of censorship and the chilling effect on Western brands, academics, and journalists

* Diaspora influence, media capture, and the weaponisation of history

* The subtle architecture of psychological shaping, algorithmic manipulation, and “truth flooding”

* Why the West keeps getting China wrong—and how much longer we can afford to

🔗 This episode launches alongside a companion piece on Blunt Force Commentary: “The Mirror and the Maze: America’s Strategic Amnesia About China”If Hangar 51 Files is your investigation, Blunt Force Commentary is your editorial strike.

Together, they form a full-spectrum insight into how power actually works in 2025.

Both are productions of Mission Xtreme Media—narrative intelligence built for those who refuse to be deceived.

🎧 Listen now on Substack, Spotify, or your platform of choice.📨 And if you understand that the most dangerous battlefield is the one most people can’t see, share this. Because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Adrenaline. Altitude. Outlaws. The Sky Was Their Playground – And Their Getaway Route.

What happens when elite skydivers, backcountry pilots, and record-holding thrill-seekers swap gold medals for black-market payloads? In this episode, we jump headfirst into the little-known world of airborne smuggling—where extreme sports and organised crime collide at 10,000 feet.

These aren’t cartel enforcers or faceless syndicates. These are world-class athletes—skydiving champions, daredevil bush pilots, and former military jumpmasters—who used their unique skills to outmanoeuvre law enforcement, drop illicit cargo mid-air, and rewrite the playbook on international drug trafficking.

From Roger Nelson’s legendary “Sugar Alpha” missions to the rise of The Reefer Men and their cannabis-fuelled empire in the skies, we explore the truth behind smuggling operations so daring, they make Point Break look like a PSA.

🔹 How did they rig their planes for covert drops across borders?🔹 Why did top athletes trade their podiums for prison sentences?🔹 And what does this strange intersection between extreme sports and crime tell us about risk, thrill, and moral drift?

This isn’t just a crime story. It’s a high-stakes tale of passion, precision, and the dark flipside of the adrenaline economy. Strap in, and prepare to descend into the world of aerial outlaws.

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Long buried in Cold War shadows, a network of secret armies spanned across Western Europe—funded, trained, and armed in silence. Their official purpose? To resist a Soviet invasion. But beneath the surface, the story of Operation Gladio reveals a far murkier reality: independent arsenals, covert interference in democratic processes, and alleged ties to terrorism and organised crime.

In this explosive episode, we dive into declassified documents, European Parliament resolutions, and whistleblower testimony to expose the hidden architecture of NATO’s stay-behind networks. From arms caches in Belgium to covert CIA-SIS coordination in Italy, and rogue operatives in Turkey, we ask the question few dared to utter:

What happens when democracy is protected by forces operating outside of it?

This isn't a conspiracy theory. This is Gladio.

🎧 Listen now🧠 Dive deeper with our full research compendium on Substack📜 Sources include: “NATO’s Secret Armies,” EU Parliament Resolutions, and field reports from Northern Army Group archives.

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Unidentified Submerged Objects. Sonic anomalies. Deadly encounters beneath Lake Baikal. In this episode of Hangar 51 Files, we delve into one of the Cold War’s most bizarre and least known fronts: the Soviet Union’s underwater encounters with the unexplained. Known as the “Quackers,” these mysterious sonar signatures were fast, erratic, and, according to Soviet records, nothing like any known submarine or marine creature.

From declassified KGB reports to naval divers who claim to have witnessed humanoid “swimmers” in Baikal’s depths, we explore the evidence of a hidden naval mystery. Were these sightings secret NATO prototypes, naturally occurring but misunderstood phenomena—or were the Soviets confronting something far stranger?

Join us for a deep-dive into Cold War paranoia, underwater anomalies, and the murky line between science, secrecy, and the supernatural.

In this brand-new Hangar 51 Files audio mini-episode, we dive headfirst into the forbidden archives of physics, black projects, and erased names — and introduce the true story behind my new book: Gravity’s Shadow: The Hidden History of Anti-Gravity Technology.

🚨 This is not a full episode — it’s a 26-minute primer. Think of it as a classified briefing before the real operation begins.

We’ll cover:

* The 500-year-old Codex drawing that may have cracked gravity before Newton

* Why the death of Nikola Tesla set off a government scramble

* The amateur who tamed gravity — and was promptly silenced

* What Die Glocke really was, and where it went

* Whether UAP sightings today are glimpses of classified antigravity tech already in use

🎧 Listen to the episode here📘 Get the book here

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