Covert Influence: Inside the CIA’s Behavioral Drug Programs
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) maintained a long-running interest in behavioral drugs for both defensive and offensive purposes. From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the agency explored ways to: Protect its operatives from hostile drug interrogation. Use...
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...
U.S. Navy-Funded Push to Replace Codeine in the 50s
A quiet but critical drug development program, backed by the Office of Naval Research and housed at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, was launched to solve a national pharmaceutical vulnerability: America’s dependence on opium for...
Declassified Study Reveals LSD Tolerance Builds in Just 3 Days
A long-forgotten letter from a U.S. government researcher has emerged from the vaults, shedding light on a chilling experiment conducted under the banner of addiction science-but with the unmistakable fingerprints of psychedelic control. "After three days on LSD-25,...
