The CIA Brainstormed Ways to Turn Translation Into Psychological Operations
It wasn’t just what was said-it was how it was said, and who translated it. A declassified document reveals that during the Cold War, the CIA convened a specialized brainstorming meeting to dissect the role of translation as a strategic tool-not just for information...
The U.S. Quietly Built a Manual for Total Incapacitation
While the world looked for bigger bombs, a small team of U.S. researchers was building something stranger: a guide to shutting people down-mentally, physically, and psychologically-without killing them. The Quarterly Technical Progress Report, a document spanning late...
U.S. Scientists Studied Electric Fish to Build Underwater Pattern Recognition Systems
In the 1970s, while the public focused on space exploration, U.S. defense researchers were experimenting with something far stranger: electric fish. The goal wasn’t biology. It was signal processing, neural control, and underwater intelligence systems modeled on...
Radioactive LSD Research Detailed in Letter from Swiss Lab
A recently declassified letter-unsigned but originating from a pharmaceutical laboratory in Switzerland-offers rare insight into the controlled distribution and production of LSD for research purposes during the mid-20th century. Though brief and clinical in tone, the...
Declassified File Reveals Desoxyn Used to Extract Confessions in “Twilight State”
A declassified government file has surfaced, exposing a chilling use of Desoxyn-the pharmaceutical name for methamphetamine hydrochloride-in experimental interrogations under chemically induced "twilight conditions." "The drug made the subject very talkative,...
