Inside the Expansion of Project BLUEBIRD
By the early 1950s, Project BLUEBIRD had evolved beyond theory. The CIA was actively building interrogation teams, exploring chemical and hypnotic control, and embedding psychological research inside foreign operations. This document proposed a sweeping expansion:...
The CIA Built a Psychological Map for Control of Human Behavior
During the Cold War, the CIA quietly funded a research program that aimed to do far more than study populations-it wanted to shape them. The so-called "narrative" project outlined in this document proposed nothing less than a full-spectrum psychological map of human...
CIA Memo Reveals Civilian Theory on Brainwashing and Mind Control
A declassified CIA document from October 1952, catalogued under the title "Material Related to Project Artichoke", outlines an internal meeting in which a civilian (associated with a veterinary organization) presented a personal theory on psychological conditioning,...
How the CIA Built Teams to Interrogate, Indoctrinate and Erase
In 1951, as the Cold War tightened and intelligence agencies scrambled to understand the limits of human resistance, the CIA quietly began assembling field teams trained in behavioral control. The internal memo marked for BLUEBIRD operations reveals the contours of...
