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...
Inside Project ARTICHOKE: The CIA’s Blueprint for Total Behavioral Control
What would it take to fully break a person’s will-without them ever realizing it happened? That was the question driving Project ARTICHOKE, a top-secret CIA research program detailed in a declassified 1952 memorandum. Unlike earlier efforts, this was no vague...
“She Has No Memory of Last Night”: CIA Agents Could Control Minds
A declassified CIA training film reveals just how deep U.S. intelligence once ventured into the realm of hypnosis-based mind control-not as science fiction, but as standard operating procedure. "Mary Jones was made to carry out her surreptitious and illegal activity...
CIA Files Reveal Secret Nazi Intelligence Recruits in Postwar West
Operation Paperclip. After WWII, hundreds of high-ranking Nazi operatives quietly reentered Europe’s intelligence community - not as fugitives, but as assets. A sweeping declassification from the CIA, analyzed by historian Dr. Richard Breitman, uncovers how war...
