The CIA’s Hidden Hand in UFO Investigations During the Cold War
As sightings of unidentified flying objects surged in the early 1950s, internal concerns at the highest levels of U.S. intelligence began to take shape. A declassified summary of the Intelligence Advisory Committee’s (IAC) UFO deliberations reveals how seriously the...
Inside the CIA’s 9/11 Defense: A Rebuke to Oversight
A 2005 memorandum from senior CIA Counterterrorist Center (CTC) officials-J. Cofer Black, Ben Bonk, and Henry Crumpton-mounts a firm rebuttal to the CIA Inspector General’s (IG) draft report on the Agency’s performance before the 9/11 attacks. In their view, the...
CIA Document Reveals Hypodermic Weapon Disguised as a Mystery
In September 1951, a U.S. intelligence official submitted a detailed set of handwritten and typed questions to colleagues concerning a confiscated object-a crude, collapsible injection device recovered from an unspecified operation. The document doesn’t name a suspect...
Conscious Control: The CIA’s Early Blueprint for Drugged Interrogation
Before MK-Ultra had a name, before LSD entered the agency’s toolbox, U.S. intelligence was already sketching out a method to collapse resistance and extract confessions-one chemically induced blackout at a time. The document, simply titled "Interrogation", offers a...
