Jun 18, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
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,...
Jun 6, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files, Drugs
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) maintained a long-running interest in behavioral drugs for both defensive and offensive purposes. From the 1950s through the early 1970s, the agency explored ways to: Protect its operatives from hostile drug interrogation. Use...
May 28, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
A declassified government file has surfaced, exposing a chilling use of Desoxyn-the pharmaceutical name for methamphetamine hydrochloride-in experimental interrogations under chemically induced "twilight conditions." "The drug made the subject very talkative,...
May 27, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
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...