The Montauk Project was allege to be a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing powerful psychological warfare weaponry. Little evidence confirming the experiment actually occurred has surfaced. It is also believed that Project Monarch that began in 1962 contributed to the Montauk Project that was established from 1971 up until 1983 and then continued under another designated type of "project name insignia". Many cultural links have been made in the 'Montauk Books' by Peter Moon and Preston Nichols about the American film industry and Hollywood and the Montauk Project itself.