May 26, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
In a little-known Cold War program, U.S. researchers explored a class of poisons not to kill-but to disorient, confuse, and control. These weren’t battlefield toxins. They were mind weapons. According to the document CHEMICAL WARFARE – UNITED STATES, government...
May 25, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files, Military Tech
It was supposed to be the perfect spy tool: a silent device capable of delivering drugs through clothing with no trace and no needle. Instead, it ended up in a folder stamped with failure-and a warning about what science can’t solve with gadgets alone. A 1950s-era...
May 22, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
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...
May 22, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
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...
May 22, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
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...