EXCLUSIVE: MKULTRA Was Bigger Than Anyone Thought
In the summer of 1977, a joint Senate hearing on intelligence and health research cracked open one of the CIA’s most infamous black programs: MKULTRA. The revelations were worse than anticipated. Not only had the CIA secretly administered LSD to U.S. citizens without...
The U.S. Military Tried to Weaponize Toxins from Shellfish and Mushrooms
In a little-known Cold War program, U.S. researchers explored a class of poisons not to kill-but to disorient, confuse, and control. These weren’t battlefield toxins. They were mind weapons. According to the document CHEMICAL WARFARE – UNITED STATES, government...
Volunteers by Sentence Reduction: The CIA’s Prison-Based Plan for Drug Interrogation
In a 1951 internal memo stamped for ARTICHOKE review, a CIA technical officer laid out a research proposal with chilling simplicity: use U.S. military prisoners as human test subjects for high-risk psychological and pharmacological experiments. The proposal detailed...
David Grusch Refused to Brief AARO and the Pentagon Wants You to Know It
In a tangle of internal emails, meeting memos, and agency-to-agency requests, a clear story emerges: the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) tried-repeatedly-to get whistleblower David Grusch to speak with them. He declined. The released...
