Declassified 1988 Air War College Psychic Warfare Report and a Sealed Narcotics Complaint — Plus a 1990 Soviet Media Digest Noting 'We and the UFOs'

Declassified 1988 Air War College Report Urged U.S. Military to Explore Psychic Warfare — and a Sealed Narcotics Complaint Surfaced in the Same Archive

A 1988 Air War College report on psychic warfare and a sealed narcotics complaint share the same public archive. A newly added CIA-hosted Soviet media digest from 1990 briefly notes a magazine titled 'We and the UFOs' — but contains no substantive anomalous reporting.

Published

September 10, 2026

Declassified

Date not listed

Source agency

The Black Vault (FOIA archive)

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Opening summary

Three official records now sit alongside each other in the same public archive, and they tell very different stories. The first is a 1988 Air War College research report by Lieutenant Colonel Dolan M. McKelvy, USAF, titled Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier.

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The second is a sealed criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York against Gabriel Dieblas Roman and Hildegardo Rivera. It charges cocaine trafficking and money laundering conspiracies under 21 U.S.C. § 846 and 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h), and describes a DEA investigation involving court-authorized wiretaps, GPS tracking, and seizures of cocaine and U.S. currency.

The third is a CIA-hosted, UNCLASSIFIED Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) style 'takeall' compilation of Soviet media monitoring dated 13 November 1990, cataloged as C00175497 and spanning pages 42–50 of 149. It consists of numbered summaries of Soviet and international broadcast items. Its only anomalous-adjacent item…

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This article is grounded in three official records: a 1988 Air War College research report by Lt Col Dolan M. McKelvy, USAF, titled Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier; a sealed criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York against Gabriel Dieblas Roman and Hildegardo Rivera; and a CIA-hosted, UNCLASSIFIED Soviet media monitoring compilation dated 13 November 1990, cataloged as C00175497. All facts are drawn from the source brief and document chunks. No names, dates, years, agencies, entities, or locations beyond those in the source texts have been added. The 1990 document's URL metadata indicates a CIA-hosted file, but the text itself does not explicitly name the originating agency; FBIS is inferred from format only. Some text in the 1990 document is garbled or OCR-degraded, limiting certainty on some details. Official source documents referenced in this article: - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/psychic-warfare-exploring-the-mind-frontier-masters-thesis-lt-col-dolan-mckelvy-may-1988/ - https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-central-intelligence-agency-cia-collection/

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