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...
The CIA Built a Secret Needleless Injector Then Abandoned it for Being Too Loud
It was supposed to be the perfect spy tool: a silent device capable of delivering drugs through clothing with no trace and no needle. Instead, it ended up in a folder stamped with failure-and a warning about what science can’t solve with gadgets alone. A 1950s-era...
Inside Kryptos: The CIA’s Unsolved Puzzle That Still Holds Clues
In the courtyard of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there’s a sculpture made of copper, granite, and mystery. Most employees walk past it every day. Few understand that it’s still talking to them. Kryptos isn’t just an artwork. It’s a deliberate enigma. Four...
How the CIA Identified, Approached and Broke Recruits
A 1944 CIA training document, recently declassified, lays out in cold detail exactly how the agency evaluated and manipulated potential assets. More than a manual, it’s a psychological dissection of human vulnerability-who can be recruited, how to spot them, and how...
