Hunting for the Mind-Breaking Plants of Project ARTICHOKE
In late 1952, a CIA scientist was quietly preparing for a multi-week research mission into the jungles and highlands of Mexico. His goal wasn’t academic. It was operational. He was tasked with locating, testing, and extracting specific narcotic and toxic plants...
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:...
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...
Conscious Control: The CIA’s Early Blueprint for Drugged Interrogation
Before MK-Ultra had a name, before LSD entered the agency’s toolbox, U.S. intelligence was already sketching out a method to collapse resistance and extract confessions-one chemically induced blackout at a time. The document, simply titled "Interrogation", offers a...
