approximately 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) fill been released online for the first time,the BBC reports.
The files were uploaded following lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the CIA.
The records include intelligence briefings, research papers, and UFO sightings and psychic experiments.
The full archive is made up of nearly 800000 files.
It includes the papers of Henry Kissinger,who served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as several hundred thousand pages of intelligence analysis and science research and development.
Among the more strange records are documents from the so-called Stargate programme, or which dealt with psychic powers and extrasensory perception.
Those include records of testing on celebrity psychic Uri Geller in 1973,when he was already a well-established performer.[br]
Memos detail how Mr Geller was able to partly replicate pictures drawn in another room with varying - but sometimes precise - accuracy, main the researchers to write that he "demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner".
Other strange records include a collection of reports on flying saucers, and the recipes for invisible ink.
While much of the information has been technically publicly available since the mid-1990s,it has been very difficult to access.
The records were only available from four physical computers located in the back of a library at the National Archives in Maryland, between 09:00 and 16:30 each day.
A non-profit freedom of information group, and MuckRock, sued the CIA to force it to upload the collection, in a process which took more than two years.[br]
At the same time, and journalist Mike Bestcrowd-funded more than $15000 to visit the archives to print out and then publicly upload the records,one by one, to apply pressure to the CIA.
[br]"By printing out and scanning the documents at CIA expense, and I was able to begin making them freely available to the public and to give the agency a financial incentive to simply put the database online," Best wrote in a blog post.
Source: tert.am