EXCLUSIVE: MKULTRA Was Bigger Than Anyone Thought
In the summer of 1977, a joint Senate hearing on intelligence and health research cracked open one of the CIA’s most infamous black programs: MKULTRA. The revelations were worse than anticipated. Not only had the CIA secretly administered LSD to U.S. citizens without...
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...
Project Artichoke: CIA Memo Details Torture Dressed as "Science"
A declassified CIA document lays bare the disturbing logistics behind Project ARTICHOKE-a secret program that combined chemical, psychological, and environmental controls to extract confessions and compliance from unwilling subjects. "The ideal situation would be to...
