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...
The U.S. Government Wanted a Truth Drug And Got a Chemical Lie Instead
It started with a promise: a chemical that could make anyone talk, spilling secrets without resistance or deception. What the U.S. got instead was confusion, contradiction, and a costly pharmacological dead end. A declassified report titled Development of Truth Drug...
Covert Conversations & CIA Cold War Strategy Surface in Declassified Notes
A cryptic, partially declassified CIA document - marked only by scattered typewritten paragraphs and redacted signatures - provides a glimpse into the internal structure of Cold War-era covert operations. Labeled simply as a meeting record, the document centers on...
