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...
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...
From Brainwashing to Bombproof Memory: Inside the CIA’s Psychological War
When the CIA planned out its psychological warfare strategy in the 1950s, it wasn’t just exploring exotic drugs and hypnosis. It was engineering an entire operational ecosystem-custom labs, human test subjects, field schools, and behavioral modification programs...
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...
