The U.S. Quietly Built a Manual for Total Incapacitation
While the world looked for bigger bombs, a small team of U.S. researchers was building something stranger: a guide to shutting people down-mentally, physically, and psychologically-without killing them. The Quarterly Technical Progress Report, a document spanning late...
Declassified File Reveals Desoxyn Used to Extract Confessions in “Twilight State”
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,...
The U.S. Military Tried to Weaponize Toxins from Shellfish and Mushrooms
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...
Volunteers by Sentence Reduction: The CIA’s Prison-Based Plan for Drug Interrogation
In a 1951 internal memo stamped for ARTICHOKE review, a CIA technical officer laid out a research proposal with chilling simplicity: use U.S. military prisoners as human test subjects for high-risk psychological and pharmacological experiments. The proposal detailed...
