Nov 6, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files, Drugs
In early 1957, U.S. government researchers tried to interrupt one of the most powerful altered states ever induced: the LSD experience. Their tool was BOL-2-bromo-LSD-a close chemical cousin to lysergic acid diethylamide but with one key difference: it didn’t cause...
Oct 28, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
In the early 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency quietly compiled a now-declassified internal study for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Its subject: the systematic re-education of captured minds-a process popularly known as "brainwashing." But the agency’s report...
Oct 3, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
In June 1966, a U.S. government review board quietly examined a research proposal to explore electro-anesthesia-the use of electrical current to render subjects unconscious. The plan was detailed, ambitious, and ethically ambiguous. The experiment would begin with...